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FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cns. 943, 945, 946. 1904. 163 sunset to sunrise, such lights or other signals as the Light-House Board may prescribe. Sec. 3. That all railroad companies desiring the use of said bridge Use by other roads. shall have and be entitled to equal rights and privileges relative to the passage of railway trains over the same and the a approaches thereto upon payment of a reasonable compensation for such use, or, in case of disagreement, upon such terms and conditions as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War upon hearing the allegations and proofs of the parties in interest. Sec. 4. That this Act shall be null and void unless the bridge herein Time of Construction authorized shall be commenced within two years and completed within ` four years from the date hereof. · Sec. 5. That the right to amend, alter, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment expressly reserved. _ » Approved, April 7, 1904.

CHAP. 945.-An Act To increase the pensions of those who have lost both eyes April 8. 1904. or have become totally blind from causes occurring in the military or naval service S 671 of the United States. [public, N0_ gg_] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the pas- Pensions sage of this Act all persons on the pension roll, and all persons here- Total blindness rate after granted a pension, who while in the military or naval service of incresed the United States and in the line of duty, shall have lost both eyes, or RS Sec ??? p 915 who have become totally blind from causes occurring in the service of amended the United States, shall receive a pension at the rate of one hundred dollars per month: Provided, however, That this Act shall not be so Proviso construed as to reduce any pension under any Act, public or private. No reduction Approved, April 8, 1904. CHAP. 946.-·An Act To transfer Captain Seth Mitchell Ackley from the retired April 8 1904 to the active list of the Navy. (Public No 91) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congresa assembled, That the President be, and he Seth Mitchell Ackley· is hereby, authorized to restore Seth Mitchell Ackley, now a captain Restored to Active on the retired list, to the active list of the Navy: Provided, That the list of Navy said Ackley shall, upon examination in accordance with regulations to Proviso: be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, before an examining board Examination composed of five members, of whom three shall be line officers his senior in rank, and the remaining two medical members, satisfactorily establish his mental, moral, professional, and physical fitness to perform active service, the place to which he shall restored to be determined b the Secretary of the Navy after recommendation with regard thereto hy said board: And preceded further, That the said Ackley Number of grade increased shall be carried as additional to the number of the grade to which he may be restored, or at any time thereafter promote . Approved, April 8, 1904.