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SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS . SEss . II. CHs . 196-198 . 1090 .

225 Michigan, about sixteen miles below the city of Detroit, Michigan, if completed in accordance with plans accepted by the Chief of Engineers and the Secretary of War, as providing suitable facilities for navigation, shall be a lawful structure, and shall be subject to the conditions and limitations of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March 23, 1906 . SEC. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved . Approved, April 19, 1930 . Construction . Vol. 34, p.84. Amendment. April 19,

. CHAP. 197.-An Act To provide for the extension of the boundary

[H limits of ju. R. 6 343 .] 3 the proposed Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the e stablishment of [Public, No . i54 .] which is authorized by the Act approved May 22, 1926 (Forty-fourth Statutes, page 616) . Be it en acte d by the Se nate and Ho use o f Rep rese ntat ive s o f the Gr eat Smo ky Moun - United St ates o f Am eric a in Co ngre ss a sse mble d, That the boundary t c. Nat ional Pa rk, limits of the tract of land in the Great Smoky Mountains in the Vol . 44, p . 616, amend. States of North Carolina and Tennessee, recommended by the Secre- ed. tary of the Interior in his report of April 14, 1926, for the estab- Adjacent lands in- lishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, be, and eluded . the same ar e hereby, extende d to inc lude lan ds adjace nt to th e east boundary as de fined in said report to a line approximately as follows From a point on top of the B alsam Mountains at the boundar y Description . of Swain and Hayward Counties just north of Black Camp Gap

thence following east the top of the mountain range to Jonathan Knob and Hemphill Bald ; thence along top of ridge through Camp Gap to Bent Knee Knob ; thence following the main ridge to Cata- loochee Creek to a point on the boundary of the area described in report of the Secretary of the Interior of April 14, 1926 ; and the Ac eptan c616 ereof. lands within said boundary extension, or any part thereof, may be accepted on behalf of the United States in accordance with the provisions of the Act of May 22, 1926, for inclusion in the area to be known as t he Great Smoky Mountains Natio nal Park . Approved, April 19, 1930 . CHAP. 198 .-An Act To amend the Act entitled "An Act to enable the April 19, 1930 . mothers and widows of the deceased soldiers, sailors, and marines of the Ameri-

[11 R.8527 .] can forces now interred in the cemeteries of Europe to ma ke a pilgrimage to [Public, No . 155 ] these cemeteries," approved March 2, 1929. Be it enacted by the Senate and Ho use of Representatives o f the American cemeteries Uni ted States of America in Congress assembled, That paragraph in Europe . Pilgrimage of motb- (e) of section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to enable the mothers ers and widows of and widows of the deceased soldiers, sailors, and marines of the American forces buried >

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there . American forces now interred in the cemeteries of Europe to make Vol . 45, p. 1508, a pilgrimage to these cemeteries," approved March 2, 1929 (Forty- a Anie,p.65 . fifth Statutes, page 1508), be, and the same is hereby, amended to Po st, p.3 35 . read as follows "(e ) The pilgrimages shall be by the shortest practicable route sh ortest practica l route and time to be and for the shortest practicable time, to be designated by the Secre- designated . tary of War . No mother or widow shall be provided for at Gov- Pe riod fo r Govern - ernment expense in Europe for a longer period than two weeks from ment expense limited . the time of disembarkation in Europe to the time of reembarkation in Europe, except in case of illness or other unavoidable cause . In tion of Care and body of . mother e the event of the death of a mother or widow while engaged upon or widow in ease of the pilgrimage herein provided for, the United States shall pay 57894°-31-15