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FI FTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 888-890. · 1902. 277 be had upon any person interested, twenty days’ notice of the time - when the same shall be condemned shall be given, by publication ilu some ngwspapeg lin general cirgulation nearest said property in the istrict w ere said an is situate . If the referees can not agree, then any two of them are authorized A'¤¤*· to and Shall make the award. Any party to the proceedings who is Hj€g{>¤¤l mm Wfdissatisiied with the award of the referees shall have the right, within ten days after the filing of the award in the court by which said referees were appointed, to appeal by original petition to the United States court sitting at the p ace nearest and most convenient to the property sought to be taken, where the question of the damages occasioned by the taking of the land in controversy shall be tried de novo, and the judgment rendered by the court shall be final and conclusive. And upon the payment into court of the amount or amounts awarded as damages, fee simple title to said tract of land shall vest in the United States. If such appeal is not taken as hereinbefore set forth, the award shall be conclusive and final, and shall have the same force and effect as a judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, and upon the pay- ment o the sum or sums so found due into the court, a fee simp e title to said land shall vest in the United States. Each of said referees shall receive for his compensation the sum ****5* °l*°*¢*¢¢¤- Y of five dollars per day while actually engaged in the appraisement of the property and the hearing of any matter submitte to them under this Act. That if any party or person other than the United States shall appeal C°¤*¤ °¤ ¤PP°¤l- · from any award, and the judgment of the court does not award such appealing party or person more than the referees awarded, all costs occasioned by such appeal shall be Upaid b such appealing party or person. It shall be the duty of the nited Svtates court in each district to promptly hear and determine the rights of all parties if any appeal shall be taken under this Act. Approved, May 27, 1902. ` CHAP. 889.-An Act To construct a road to the national cemetery at Dover, _____l‘[°Y $8- __ TGDDGSBOB. [Public, No. 126.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress aacemb , That the sum of eleven thou- R°;gb’l{;gmn M sand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be neccssaxriy, be, roadlto national cemand the same is hereby, appgppriated, out of any money in the reas- °'°"’· ury not otherwise appgopria , for the purpose of constructing, under the direction of the cretary of War, a macadamized road, or a road partly of gravel and partly of stone, from the river landing or its vicinity, in the town of Dover, Tennessee, to the national cemetery near Old Fort Donaldson: Provided, That the right of wa , not less gmsgtwn than fifty feet in width, shall first besecured to the United? States to y` any rt of the ground over which sand road shall run not now owned by th); United States. Approved, May 28, 1902. (JBA}. 890.-An Act To authorize the construction of abridge across the Colnm- _ May 28.1902. bia River by the Washington and Oregon Railway Company. ‘¥*é·[Pub,,c_ N0_ ,2,] Be it enacted M; the Senate and House of Rmwmmtiva gift/ne United State.; of America in Congress assemaled, _ the Was ington and Wggumbv River. Oregon Railway Company, a corporation existing under the laws of washington mm orthe State of Washington, its successors and assigns, be, and is hereby, °*'°';, ,1;,"gQ,{,g§j"{; authorized to construct and maintain a br1dge across the Columbia wrmver-