150 THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 6, 7, 8. 1853. builtvessels pur- ment for any vessel built ill 2% foI‘€ig¤ OOD11h1y, Wl10F1ct6P such vessel °h?S°d ***6 P? may have been or shall hereafter be wrecked m the United States, and ggggf gg Ugg; have been, or shall hereafter be, purchased and repaired by a citizen gy ¤51S¤¤¢¤¤,¤¤;h<>- citizens thereof: Prwided, That it shall be proved to the satisfaction of xgé £”S°:‘q';j} the Secretary of the Treasury that the repairs put upon such vessel shall threeiburths the be equal to three-fourths of the cost of said vessel when so repaired. gfggimpg Approved, December 23, 1852. ed. ——-—- Jan. 7, 1853. Cin?. VI.—An Act to amend cm Act entitled "An fict to establish the Territorial Gov- T emment of Oregon," approved August fourteenth, eighteen hundred and _;%rty-ei_gm, 1848, c Be it enacted by the Senate and fbuse of Representatives of the United States of AmenIea in Congress assembled, That the Legislative Assembly Selection m of the Territory of Oregon be, and hereby are authorized, in all cases Oregon or other where the sixteen or thirty-six sections, or any part thereof; shall be S°°“°“s m Mu taken and occupied under the law making donations of land to actual 0f16th, andiieth, . - - when those are settlers, or otherwise to cause the county commissioners of the several }°¤m<$ uP°¤: counties in said Territory, or such other officer or officers as they shall wth°m°d‘ direct, to select, in lieu thereof, an equal quantity of any unoccupied land in sections, or fractional sections, as the case may be. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That when selections are made in Tho lands so pursuance of the provisions of the tirst section of this act, said lands so
- §1[‘*°*°dggE;*;::;g selected, and their proceeds, shall be forever inviolably set apart for the
s01m];,, benefit of common schools. Approved, January 7, 1853. Jan. 7, 1853. CHAP. VII.—An Act making further Appropriations for the Construction ofR0ada in the -—-——·—;—— Territory of Minnesota. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums of Appmpmttou money be, and they are hereby appropriated for the construction of £;§;_““mM“‘ roads in the Territory of Minnesota, in addition to the sums heretofore 1850 ch 23 appropriated for the same objects, by the act approved July eighteenth,
- ‘ eighteen hundred and fifty, to wit: for the construction of a road from
Point Douglass, on the Mississippi River, to the falls or rapids of the St. Louis River of Lake Superior, by the most direct and convenient route between those points, twenty thousand dollars ; for the construction of a road from Point Douglass to Fort Gaines, now Fort Ripley, ten thousand dollars; for the construction of a road from the mouth of Swan River, or the most expedient point near it, north or south of said river, to the Winnebago agency at Long Prairie, Eve thousand dollars; and for the construction of a road from Wabashaw to Mendota, five thousand dollars; and for the survey and laying out of a military road from Mendota to the mouth of Big Sioux River, on the Missouri, five thousand dollars. The said roads to be constructed under the direction of the Secretary of War, pursuant to contracts to be made by him. A1>1>1t0V1cD, January 7, 1853. JM- 7, 1853- Cnar. VIII.—An Act authorizing certain Soldiers of the late war with Great Britain to
- ""‘—"* surrender the Bounty Lands drawn by them, an to locate others in lieu thereojl
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Bounty Lands States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be lawfgm Széumwiig ful for any soldier in the late war with Great Britain, to whom bounty Gm; 3,%,,;,,, land has been allotted and patented in any State of this Union, by virtue gggdlig uzlgggg of the laws of the United States passed prior to the year 1850, which mmvmon md was and is imtit for cultivation, to surrender said patent, and to receive re-located. in lieu thereof the same quantity of any of the public land subject to
