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' FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 3078.3288. 1906. 259 and two, of a strip of land thirty feet wide from the Leesburg and Point of Rocks turnpike in Loudoun County, Virginia. to the forty- one-acre tract over which the United States ‘now has a right of way to the Balls Bluff National Cemetery; and the sum of five thousand dol- conmucung wad. lars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to enable the Secretary of War to build a substantial road) from the Leesburg turnpike to said cemetery, and to roperly fence and protect the same, and, within said appropriation, guy so much of the Balls Bluff battlefield as may be necessary for its protection and preservation. For the fencin , protection, and maintenance of the Government immntuas. reservation at Nalgant, Massachusetts, five thousand dollars: Bwided, P*r<{Lf¤¤·, I d That if in the o inion of the Secretary of War said reservation is no milieti ° an w` longer needed fldr the purposes for which it was originally acquired, ` he may, in his discretion, in lieu of expending the said five thousand dollars, sell and convey the lands in said reservation. That subject to the approval of the Secretary of Wai', and to be ;¤1ij{>;¤0¤‘Y· _ expended under his direction, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars is °a mm °` hereby appropriated for purchasing right of way and approaches and for constructin proper driveways and a proaches from the city of Salisbury, Norti Carolina, to the national) cemetery at or near said city, the beginning, direction, and terminus of said driveway and approaches to be determined by the Secretary of War. hat the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized, and he is hereby m{Q°,{’,f°’§P§"" M""' directed, to pay to the governor of the State of North Carolina the sum of five thousand dollars, to be by him transferred to the Moores Creek Monumental Association, incorporated by the legislature of the · State of North Carolina, for the urpose of repairing the monument R¤P¤i*¤»¤¢¤- already erected on said battlefield) and for inclosing and beautifying the same. _ That the Secretar of War is hereby authorized to accept, under TM<>¤¤¤¤¤¤= Hmthe will of Martha .ll Patterson and from the heirs of W. B. Bach- iilcltepmmorpve man, all descendants of Andrew Johnson, late President of the United °‘ ’“‘°'°"’J°l"‘“°"‘ States, free of cost to the Government, the tract of land where said Andrew J ohnson’s remains now lie, known as “Monument Hill," containing not exceeding fifteen acres and situated in Greene County and in or near the town of Greeneville, Tennessee, and upon presentation of good and perfect title to said tract of land the Secretary of War is R ¥{§h_;·;u}:¤¤•* M authorized and directed to establish thereon a national cemetery of ° ° °°”' the fourth class. . _ _ _ _ _ _ To be expended under the supervision and direction of the Secretary §{jf},°{},"§g},’,‘},',`§,;X“· of War in the improvement of the national boulevard owned hy the United States, between Princess Anne street and the gate to the national cemetery, at Fredericksburg, Virginia, the sum of ten thousand dollars. Approved, June 12, 1906. CHAP. 8288.-An Act To extend the irrigation Act to the State of Texas, {Err; Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRr?m·esen¢atives oftlw United{enum-, xo. 226.] States of AmervIca in O0ngre.s·.s· ezssernbled, hat the provisions of the Redmmon up Act entitled "An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale and · Vo1.32,p.3S8. disposal of public lands IH certain States and Territories to the construction ofp irrigation works for the reclamation of arid 1ands," approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, he, and the edijgifigfg °¤*°¤d· same are hereby, extended so as to include and apply to the State of Texas. Approved, June 12. 1906.