Chapter 314. To provide compensation for a bridge and for buildings and other improvements constructed by certain persons upon public lands afterwards set apart and reserved as the Yellowstone National Park
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CHAP. 314.— An Act To provide compensation for a bridge and for buildings and other improvements constructed by certain persons upon public lands afterwards set apart and reserved as the Yellowstone National Park. March 1, 1899. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Compensation to C. J. Baronett for improvements on lands afterwards reserved as Yellowstone Park. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the several persons in this Act named the several sums mentioned herein, to be received and accepted in each case as full and final compensation for a certain bridge, buildings, and other improvements constructed and made by said persons upon public lands afterwards reserved and set apart as the Yellowstone National Park by the Act of March first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, namely:
To C. J. Baronett, of Gardiner, Montana, for the bridge known as “Baronett’s Bridge,” over the Yellowstone River, and the approaches thereto, five thousand dollars. —to James C. McCartney.To James C. McCartney, of Gardiner, Montana, for certain buildings at or near Mammoth Hot Springs taken and used by the United States, three thousand dollars. —to Matthew McGuirk.To Matthew McGuirk, of Los Angeles, California, for certain buildings at or near Mammoth Hot Springs taken and used by the United States, one thousand dollars.
Approved, March 1, 1899.