FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. GHS. 391, 392. 1898. 433 CHAP. 3§1.—A11 Act To amcnd section eight of tha Act of Congress approved Juno 7, 1898. March second, oightocu hundred and ninety-six, granting a right of way to the Fort'”Y_` Smith and NVBSWYD Coal Railroad Company through the Indian 'fcrritory, and for other PUTPOSES. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That scction eight of the Act Fort Snqimh and of Congress approved March second, oigbtcon hundred and ninety-six, ;X§§Y°'“ °°"’ Rm granting a. right of way to the Fort. Smith and Western Coal Railroad V<>1-29·1>·41‘- Company through tho Indian Territory, and for other purposes, bc; and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: · " Sec. 8. That said railway company shall build and complete its said Tim <>¤¤p¤d•-·1 to railway on or before December thirty-first, nineteen hundred, or this '°°'“*’1°°°"““"""‘ grant shall be forfeited; that said railway company shall construct and ` maintain, continually, all road and highway crossings and necessary bridges ovcr said railway whenever said roads and highways do now or may hereafter cross said rai1way’s right of wjay, or may he by the proper authorities laid out across the same. _ Approved, J unc 7, 1898. · CHAP. 392.-An Act To suspend the operation of certain provisions of law relating June *1. 1898. to the War Department, and for other purposes. _ c K **4* Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the operation of the fol· grmy- . { lowing provisions of law bc, and is hereby, suspended in the discretion m5,,°;¥.$$;{:;.sZr1$°:Z of the Secretary of War during the existing war, namely: 13§)"*°”“°"· P""- ¥’· ‘ First. The provimon of the first section of the Act entitled "A1`I. Act Limit of nmgm making appropriations for tho support of the Army for the fiscal year ““{,"§{f*§_gJ,_ M_ ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty·11inc,and_ for other purposes! in the following words: “PromZdcd, That hcrcattcr no part; of this appropriation shall bc expended in the purchase for the Army of dra.ugl1t animals until the number on hand shall ba reduced to five thousand, and thereafter shall only be expended for the purchase of a number sufficicut to keep the supply up to tivo thousand." Second. The provisions of the first section of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending Juno thirticth, eighteen hundred and niuctyminc, and for other purposes;" in the following words: , ··Pro»vided, That hereafter no part of the appropriations for the (ifggiglf-;j»m.__ D9_ Quartcrmastcfs Department shall be expended on printing, unless the pmm.»p». _` ” same shall be dono by contract, after duo notice and competition, except —*"*““"¥ ‘*"· °‘°· in such cases as the cmcrgcucy will not admit of the giving notice for competition: Provided further, That after advertisement all the sup- _;lg;;;Q{‘j_‘};_ """’° plies for the use of the various departments and posts of the Army, ` and of the branches of the Army,scrvicc, shall hereafter be purchased where tho same can be purchased the cheapest, in the markets of the United States, quality and cost of transportation and the interest of the Government considered, except that purchases may be made in open ’ma.rkct, in the manner common among business men, when the aggregate amount required does not; exceed two hundred dollars, but • cxory such purchase shall be immediately reported to the Secretary of ar." And the words: “Pr0mZded, That the number of horses purchased under this appro- _I*f$ix¥;ée3°j; hom; prmtion, added to bbc number on hand, shall not at any time exceed ummm. the number of enlisted men and Indian scouts in the mounted service, and that no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract after competition duly invited by the Quartermastcr’s Department, and an inspection by such Department, all under the direction and authority of the Sccrctary of War." vox, xxx--28
