Chapter 315. To repeal House Resolution numbered one hundred and four, first session Fifty-first Congress, granting to Secretary of War n permit to license to use a pier at mouth of Chicago River
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CHAP. 315.— An Act To repeal House Resolution numbered one hundred and four, first session Fifty-first Congress, granting to Secretary of War n permit to license to use a pier at mouth of Chicago River.August 23, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Chicago, Ill. Licenses of pier revoked. Vol. 26, p. 685. That House Resolution numbered one hundred and tour, first session of the Fifty-first Congress, approved October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “Joint Resolution to permit the Secretary of War to grant a revocable license to use a pier as petitioned by vessel owners of Chicago, Illinois,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and the property mentioned in the said Joint Resolution, to wit. the south pier of the Chicago River, shall be excepted from the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act authorizingVol. 27. p. 321. the Secretary of War to lease public property in certain cases,” approved 492 July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and said pier*Proviso*.
Exception. shall not be, subject to be leased by the Secretary of War: *Provided*, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to abrogate the permit already granted by the Secretary of War to the Western Seamen’s Friend Society for the use of a part of the said pier. Approved, August 23, 1894.