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FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Siass. I. CHs. 809, 810. 1886. 167 States, upon which also no higher charge shall be made for transmission over the same of the mails, the troops, and the munitions of war of the United States, or for through passenger or freight passing over said bridge, than the'rate per mile for their transportation over any railroad or other routes leading to said bridge, or over said stream in the vicinity; and the United States shall have the right of way for a telegraph across Telegraph, said bridges; the said bridges to be built and located under and subject to such regulations for the security of navigation on said bay and creek as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and to secure that object the Secretary et‘W¤r said county, by its proper court and duly authorized officers or agents, *° °·PP*°"° Pl°”°• shall submit to the Secretary of War, for his examination and approval, °t°' a design and drawing of such bridge across Young’s Bay, and a map of Young’s Bay from the mouths of its navigable tributaries to the adjacent ship—channel, which map shall be on a scale of at least one to twenty thousand, and whose topography of the shoresand hydrography shall reasonably represent the banks, the bottom, and steamboat channels by contours of six feet, and which shall be accompanied by other maps, drawn to a scale of one inch to two hundred feet, giving, within areas of one-fourth of a mile from each draw-span, an accurate representation of the bottom of the bay by contour·lines two feet apart, determined by accurate soundings, and also showing the force and direction of the currents at each two feet of -tidal stage, by triangulated observations on suitable floats; also showing the Skipanon Creek to the head of usual navigation. The maps shall also show the locations of other bridges in the vicinity, and shall give such other information as the Secretary of War may require for a full and satisfactory understanding of the snbj ect. Sec. 3. That Congress shall have power, at any time, to alter or Right to amend, amend this act so as to prevent or remove all material and substantial °*°·· '°“°"°d· obstructions to the navigation of said bay and said creek by the construction ot said bridges and accessory works; and the expense of al- Changes. tering said bridges or removing such obstructions shall be borne by the ·owner of said bridges. Approved, July 29, 1886. ` CHAP. 8].0.-An act for the enlistment and pay and to define the duties and lia— July 29, 1886. - bilities of ‘•general-service clerks" and "general·service messengers" in the Army. `*"’t" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Q States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, 1G§:°’°}{°°"’°° and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be enlisted and gg; °" m°°°°°` mustered into the service of the United States, for clerical service and Sgiypgfgry cswu messenger duty at the headquarters of the Army and at the several authorized to endivisiou, department, and district headquarters, at headquarters gen- 1**;;, .t eral service, at recruiting depots, and at West Point, New York, in the lm ' Army, a corps of men not to exceed one hundred and seventy, who shall be subject to the Articles of War and Army Regulations the same as enlisted men on duty in the line, but shall not be subject to be assigned to any other than clerical and messenger duty, as hereinbefore _ _ specified ; nor shall this number be computed as a part of the number N°*1l¤°}“d°d m at which the Army is now limited by law. Amy mm' Sec. 2. That of the men so enlisted one hundred and twenty-tive shall Classincatien. be “general-service clerks,” who shall be classified and paid as follows: C1"k“· Class one shall consist of ninety clerks, at one thousand dollars per annum; class two shall consist of twenty-tive clerks, at one thousand one hundred dollars per annum; class three shall consist of ten clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; and the remaining fortyilve of such men shall be ·‘general-service messengers," who shall Messengers. be paid at the rate of sixty dollars per month; and all of such men shall _ be mustered for pay monthly the same as enlisted men, and shall receive NM *° *°°°¤'° no other compensation, pay, or allowance, except when on duty, when ?u°w°"°°°‘ necessity requires, {DEX shall each be allowed for subsistence one ration in kind to be issued by the Commissary Department.