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SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cris. 142-144. - 1910. 291 three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, for the purpose of providing funds for acquiring the existing waterworks plant in said city and constructing additional waterworks in and for said city; pre- p,'§,“*dg§fh"f’*:§g iff scribing the forms of said bonds and of the interest coupons to be wml;. Pu ` thereto attached, providing for an annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on and principal of said bonds when due, and lixin the other details of the issue," be, and the same are hereby, in ag respects, declared fully authorized, ratified, approved and confirmed, and the bonds of said cit? of Douglas, when executed and issued ursuant to the provisions o said ordinance numbered ninety-three, sliall be, and the same are hereby, declared to constitute the valid and binding obligations of said city, and all of the taxable property in said city to be subject to the levy of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on said bonds when due. Approved, April 4, 1910. CHAP. 143.-An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act relating to the liability ignil 5,1910. of common carriers by railroad to their employees in certain cases," approved April ‘ [ · R· 17283] twenty-second, nineteen hundred and eight. [1>¤¤1sc,No. 117.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an Act entitled "An c0I;}:;’gQ*{gQ;§;Q'j{g Act relating to the liability of common carriers by railroad to their eugployees. employees in certain cases,” approved April twenty-second, nineteen ed_°l‘35‘p'°°*°m°“d` gigglred and eight, be amende in section six so that said section V°‘·*’·*·P·m-· " Sec. 6. That no action shall be maintained under this Act unless '"”°“'“*'°‘°°“°°“· commenced within two years from the day the cause of action accrued. _ . "Under this Act an action may be brought in a circuit court of the ‘l°"°°l°u°"‘ United States, in the district of the residence of the defendant, or in which the cause of action arose, or in which the defendant shall be . doing business at the time of commencing such action. The jurisdic· d,§g;‘;’§,'g;‘;:¤§u“§,; tion of the courts of the United States under this Act shall be concurrent with that of the courts of the several States, and no case arising under this Act and brought in any state court of competent jurisdiction shall be removed to any court of the United States. ’ Sec. 2. That said Act be further amended by adding the following section as section nine of said Act: "Sec. 9. That any right of action given by this Act to a person msjgsigggtlgitgctionn sufferin injury shall survive to his or her personal representative, ' for the ienefit of the surviving widow or husband and children of such employee, and, if none, then of such employee’s parents; and, if none, then of the next of kin dependent upon such employee, but in such cases there shall be only one recovery for the same injury." Approved, April 5, 1910. CHAP. 144.-An Act To grant certain lands to the city of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Alf§l,%;,{,?}°‘ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re_Ev·esentati/ues of the United [*’“"“°· “°· **8-] States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the msnenmas. Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be w‘;§f“"°‘”‘°Y°“"°- issued patents conveying the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter in section twenty-six, township fourteen north, range seventy west of the sixth principal meridian, containing forty acres, more or less, and lot one in section twenty-two, township fourteen north, range sixty- seven west of the sixth principal meridian, containin forty-tive and one one-hundredths acres, more or less, to the city of Cheyenne, in the State of Wyoming, for the use of said city, subject to the legal rights hmm; of others; if any, upon the payment by the city of Cheyenne of one dollar an twentydive cents per acre and the usual fees therefor. Approved, April 8, 1910.