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FIFTYSEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cus. 1365-1367. 1902. 66]. shall be recognized and known as post routes, upon which also no higher charge shall be made for the transportation over the same of the mails, the troops, and the munitions of war of the United States than the rate per mile paid for transportation of said mails, troops, and munitions over the railroads and public highways leading to said bridges; and the United ,-;8'£$,l_°"“’b’ °°°" States shall have the right of way for postal, teleigraph, and telephone purposes over said bri ges; and all telephone an telegraph companies sha] be granted equal rights and rivi egcs in the construction and operation of their lines across said Tsrid es. Sec. 6. That this Act shall be null and void if actual construction of u3:f"° °‘ °°""*“'°‘ the bpidggs heiein authorized be nit clomnilenceci within one year and comp ete wit in two ears from the ate ereo . Sec. 7. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby A‘“°“‘lm°“‘· expressly reserved. Approved July 1, 1902. CHAP. 1386.-An Act To amend anAct entitled "An Act authorizing the Aransas July 1,1902. Harbor Terminal Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Corpus Christi Channgl, known as the Moms and Cummings ship channel, in Aransas County, exas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re esentatives of the United States q£Americahin (,b·ngressHasse2nbZefTZ, Thlit tif;} Act epjtitled "An ,,§f’§l§,‘l;°h'L"*°”‘“' Act authorizin the Aransas arbor erminal i way ompany to E¤¢•:¤¤¤¤ ¤f ¤¤¤¤ construct a bridge across the Corpus Christi Channel, known as the Morris and Cummings ship channel, in Aransas County, Texas," °°$‘,§}'f“’2,‘f’ bgdgim approved Ma fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, is hereby ¤¤¤¤¤¤¢d- reenacted, and, section five of the said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "‘SEc. 5. That this Act shalulienull and void if aptualhconstruction ,i2;}{“‘* °f “°'““'“'°` of the brid herein authoriz be not commence wit in one year and complegil within three years from May fourth, nineteen hundred and two.” Approved. July 1, 1902. CHAP. 1367.-—-An Act To incorporate The Society of the Army of Santiago de ___ ‘l“lY l· l°°2· Cubs. [Public, No. 238.] Be it enacted bz the Senate and House of Reaentatinea of the United States of Ameriéu in Congress assembled, mt William R. Shafter, ossggiihlrgtiiig &‘52‘.’f J. For Kent, and John C. Bates, of the United States Army; G. "‘f,‘]f,'§§p’g}§‘}6n_ Céeigfhtgp Webb, if lfew\¥ork, in Sathe Stal? gg 1*;:w York; Lyman . . ennon. C ar es r orton, mue . i . oun , Samuel S. Sumner, Wallace F. Randolph, Joseph Wheeler, Adm? R. Chaffee, Alfred C. Sharpe. Philip Reade, and James T. Kerr, of the United States Army; John Jacob Astor, of New York, in the State of New York; Hamilton S. Hawkins, of the United States Army; Adelbert Ames, of Lowell, in the State of Massachusetts; Chambers McKibbin and Eugene D. Dimmick, of the United States Army, and Charles Dick, of Akron, in the State of Ohio, officers and members of the council of The Society of the Army of Santiago de Cuba, and their associates and successors, be, and they are hereby, incor(p0rated and made a body politic and incorporate in the District of ‘olumbia by the name of "The Societv of the Army of Santiago de Cuba," for patriotic, P°*'P°°¤*· historical, and educational purposes, to record the history and conserve the memory of events of the campaign of the Army and Navy of the United States which resulted in the surrender on the seventeenth day of