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836 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cns. 524-526. 1891. Bonds may be as the laws of Maryland; and, further, that the said Rock Creek Railg“,§*1Ac§2nf’Z{c_°’ °°“‘ way Company of the District of Columbia shall be, and it hereby is, authorized and empowered to issue its bonds to aid in paying for the construction and equipment of its railroad, and the purchase and lease, construction, and equipment of any and all future acquisitions and extensions as hereinbefore are, or that may hereafter be, provided for, and to secure the said bonds by mortgage or deed of trust of its rights of way, and all its roperty of what kind soever, whether real, personal, or mixed, including its franchises as a corporation; and as proof and notice of the legal execution and effectual delivery of any such mortgage or deed of trust, the same shall be filed and recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds for the P’·””*°°°- District of Columbia: Provided, however, That the bonds hereby Limit 0* b°¤d i¤¤¤¤· authorized shall at no time exceed in the aggregate amount of their face value one-half of the capital stock of said com any actually subscribed and paid in: And provided further, That Eur the purpose of memes or cnpam Hxing the amount of the capital stock of said company the cost of "‘°"" _ purc ase or lease, construction, or equipment of the acquisition and n extension aforesaid shall be deemed as part of the actual cost of Q; rights of way, construction, equi ment, motive ower, and neces- K sary lands and buildings, as rovided for by the third section of the e act amending the charter of the said company, approved May twenty- ggggfgéféplwiou eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety; and the time for the compleexumeu. tion of said road is hereby extended six months from and after the twentieth of November, eighteen hundred and ninety-one. Am¤¤d¤¤¤¤¤- ew- thSEc.t2. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal is ac . . Approved, March 3, 1891. _ Much 3_ 1w_  ?§5.}An act to make Enfield, Connecticut, a port of delivery in the dis- -———·—~—-— tric 0 a · or . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Enum, conn. United States of America in Congress assembled, That in addition to ,,_}‘g_§y{*° §a¥’rQg`_g’ tf; the places designated in the act of March third, eighteen hundred mee.and eighty-seven, as ports of delivery, the town of Enfield, village of Thompsonville, in the State of Connecticut, within the said district of Hartford, is hereby constituted a port of delivery within the meanvn1.24,p.4m, ing of said act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, ~R_ S__ s,,,, my ,,_ and of the act to which said act of March third, eighteen hundred ‘*°i*»¤¤°¤*i¤i· and eighty-seven, is an amendment. immediate trans- Sec. That the privileges of the seventh section of the act of June ¥’°{,’§§°f,‘{“,f“;';Q*'i°°· tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled "An act to amend the ``statutes in relation to immediate transplortation of dutiable goods, and for other pur oses," be, and they ereby are, extended to the said town of Enfield, village of Thompsonvi le, district and State aforesaid. Approved, March 3, 1891. Mnmh3_;gg;_ CHAP. 526.-An act to authorize the building of 3 bridge at Van Buren, A;. ———;———- kansas, across the Arkansas River. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Yan Buren Ponmou United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Van §{,',‘}g§,§`,?k‘;_‘,;’?_;‘sY,g;Q,{, Buren Pontoon Bridge Company, a corporation organized under the at Vw Buren Ark. laws of the State of Arkansas, its successors and assigns, be, and are hereby, authorized to construct and maintain a pontoon bridge and approaches thereto across the Arkansas River in front of Van Buren, at a point at least one mile from any other similar bridge, and which