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FIFTYFIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 547, 548, 563. 1898. 651 issue between them shall be decided by the Secretary of War upon a hearing of the allegationsand proofs of the parties. Sec. 5. That this Act shall be null and void if actual construction of <>¤¤;¤&¤¤·=¤¤¤~¤¢ ·¤•1 the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within one year and °°°`P° °"' completed within three years from the date hereof Approved, July 1, 1898. CHAP. 548.-An Act Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across ·T¤!y L 1898- the Missouri River at Yankton, South Dakota. _ ’_"*`__`_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section six of the Act of R1?ri¤¤:~yr1fi;g¤¤ri June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled “An DLT ° °" "‘ S' Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River wfj·:,_$c*g0*;¤**°·* M at the city of Yankton, South Dakota," and the Act of May twenty- v¤1.zv,p.sis. eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, amendatory thereof, are Yf"·”· P·"°· hereby amended so as to read as follows: “Sec. 6. That this Act shall be null and void if the bridge herein authorized is not completed within two years from the twenty-second day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight." Approved, July 1, 1898. CHAP. 563.-·An Act To relieve owners of mining claims who enlist in the military JN! 2- 15*9- cr naval service of the United States for duty in the war with Spain from perform- ’_—"__` ing assessment work during such term of service. . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States ofrtoneriea in Congress assembled, That the provisions of section {·z¤·l*¤1=>¤·{; of twenty-three hundred and twenty-four of the Revised Statutes of the psm"{:°€»¤1i»»s»T§ not United States, which require that on each claim located after the tenth g*;*;J°°!fm{° day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and until patent has of mnusniinmeia been issued therefor, not less than one hundred dollars’ worth of labor ,25 S" “°°· 232* P' shall be performed or improvements made during each year, shall not apply to claims or parts of claims owned by persons who may enlist in the volunteer army or navy of the United States for service in a war between this country and Spain, so that no mining claim or any part thereof owned by such person which has been regularly located and recorded shall be subject to forfeiture for nonperformauce of the annual assessments until six months after such owner is mustered out of the service, or, if he should not survive the war, then six mouths after his death in the service. Sec. 2. That those desiring to take advantage of this Act shall tile, m§,}f*°° °' °”"°‘· or cause to be tiled, a notice in the clerk’s office where the location certificate of said mine is recorded before the expiration of the assessment year, giving notice of his enlistment and of his desire to hold said claim under this Act. Sec. 3. That if any such enlisted soldier or sailor has a coowner or °_§ng:j¤;¤;g¤g;;:tgy coowners in any mining claim, and who are not in the Army or Navy, and such coowner or coowners fail to do such a proportion of one hun— dred dollars’ worth of work per annum as the interest of such nonenlisted person or persons bears to the whole claim, then such interest shall be open to relocation by any other qualified person or persons by their doing the necessary work thereon and filing an affidavit of labor showing the forfeiture and that the relocators had done the annual work required of such nonenlisted persons and succeeded them in right under this Act, which work may be done at any time after the expiration of the assessment year and before the former owners resume work thereon. The work and aflidavit aforesaid shall operate as a transfer of said forfeited interest from the former owners to said relocators. Approved, July 2, 1898.