574 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHAP. 244. 1854. Estimates of applied, respectively; and that all estimates of the Commissioner of Pub. gorgmisgqneryf lie Buildings and Grounds shall hereafter be approved and submitted by mid {§umfi‘;‘é§_S the Secretary of the Interior, annually, through the Treasury Depart. ment, as other estimates to the two houses of Congress. And further, Appropriations that all appropriations which are herein made, or may be hereafter made, mi £;>¤¤d¤ mgd for repairs or improvements of the public buildings, grounds, and mgm
- ,'§g,,,d§§ $Q’,,d,: within the District of Columbia, and now under the charge of the Com.
directions ot Sec. missioner of Public Buildings and Grounds, shall be expended under the °f I““"°”· direction of the Secretary of the Interior; and that all laws, or parts of laws, inconsistent with this section shall be, and the same are hereby, repealed. APPROVED, August 4, 1854. Aug 4, 1854_ Guru-. CCXLIV. -An A;;tu1;2Zg;n{£l;p5d£?;g;§e0;Qe Przw ·y’ the Public Lands to _}>€,:Z’g1é_:gF’ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Graduation of States of America in Congress assembled, That all of the public lands me of public of the United States which shall have been in market for ten years Funds. or upwards, prior to the time of application to enter the same under the provisions of this act, and still remaining unsold, shall be subject to sale at the price of one dollar per acre; and all of the lands of the United States that sha1l‘havc been in market for fifteen years or upwards, as aforesaid, and still remaining unsold, shall be subject to sale at seventy- five cents per acre ; and all of the lands of the United States that shall have been in market for twenty years or upwards, as aforesaid, and still remaining unsold, shall be subject to sale at fifty cents per acre ; and all of the lands of the United States that shall have been in market for twenty- five years and upwards, as aforesaid, and still remaining unsold, shall be HOW m this subject to sale at twenty-five cents per acre, and all lands of the United mmm is to aP_ States that shall have been in market for thirty years or more, shall be ply. subject to sale at twelve-and-a-half cents per acre ; Provided, This section shall not be so construed as to extend to lands reserved to the United States, in acts granting land to States for railroad or other internal improvements, or to mineral lands held at over one dollars and twenty- five cents per acre. _Preemption SEO. 2. And be it further enacted, That upon every reduction in xdgge Enh 1**33: price under the provisions of this act, the occupant and settler upon the uct_ y lands shall have the right of pre-emption at such graduated price, upon the same terms, conditions, restrictions, and limitations, upon which the public lands of the United States are now subject to the right of pre-emption, until within thirty days preceding the next graduation or reduction that shall take place; and if not so purchased, shall again be subject to right of pre-emption for eleven months as before, and so on from time to P¤0Vi¤¤· time, as reductions take place: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to interfere with any right which has or may accrue py virtue of any act granting pre-emption to actual settlers upon public ands. H"' °¤*’Yi° Sec. 3. And be it rather enacted, That an erson a l in to en-
- 0 M m°'d°' ter any of the aforesaidfllands shall be requiredytd) make altlidhvig before
1855, ch. 209. the register or receiver of the proper land-office, that he or she enters the same for his or her own use, and for the purpose of actual settlement and cultivation, or for the use of an adjoining farm or plantation, owned or Hmm for occupied by him or herself, and together with said entry, he or she has Perjm,y_Y not acquired from the United States, under the provisions of this act, more than three hundred and twenty acres, according to the established surveys ; and if any person or persons taking such oath or affidavit shall swear falsely in the premises, he or she shall be subject to all the pains and penalties of perjury. Approved, August 4, 1854.
