126 THIRTY-·SIXTH CONGRESS. SMS. IL Ch. 19, 20. 1861 ir and their hei assigns, and legal representatives l•*E'§:l*m:éi::l g:?';d](lh;e;·mge:e lligzehy, authorized 3 institute a suit against the ;United °h° mm Smeg, in the circuit court of the United States for the State of Cahf°or¤m, mhz? ii: for the purpose of recovering from the United States, two Iota of ground, H°¤P*¤¤i Q¢1¤¤¤» numbers Eve and six, in the square in the exty of San Francisco on vrhnch Sm Fm°`°°°` a hospital has been erected by the United States; which lots are claimed to have been acquired by the said Ames, Holladay, and Blau-, by: deeds executed in their favor by the sheriff of the county of San Francisco on the twenty-third day of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. The How to be said suit to be commenced by citation served on the district attorney of °°“"“°“‘”°' the United States for the northern district of California: P1-ovzded, United States That the United States shall have the right in anyjsunt so brought to b?w_£Il% defend their olaim tofhe title 3Dti. [ ;¥>SS8SSl0D of sand property, or any ¤¤ °*l“’ , n an or e ui e un s. mm Pmgmtcgegoféntl be igfmr enacted, Tha?; shall be the duty of the said m‘°'i‘:°f:°g°°' district attorne , under the direction and advice of the Attomey General mln 'guit. R of the United gtates, to defend any suit brought under the authority of the first section of this act, and to take all necessary measures at 1aw_0r in equity for the protection and defence of the t1tle to sand lots. Either Perf! Sm. 3. And be it further enacted, That either party may: appeal or mY *”“L prosecute a writ of error to the Supreme Conrt of the United States from any final decision rendered by said circuit court in any suit metitutcd as aforesaid. Suit w be in- Sec. 4. And be it jicrtlwr enacted, That no suit be brought hy •¤i*¤*·¤<l ****-**1 virtue of the provisions of this act, unless the same be msututed withm "° yu"' two years from the passage thereofl Pmeaedlnga it Sm. 5. And be it further enacted That m the event of a final _;udg— BM! .l¤d§¤>°¤* ment' against the United States in any suit instituted as aforesaid, it shall be %;,$°§w2; the duty of the proper officers of the United States, who may be m charge and possession of said lots in behalf of the government, to deliver np to the claimants said lots, or such parts thereof as may, by said final Judgment, be decreed to belong to them ; and the said circuit court ishereby authorized to issue the process necessary and proper for carrying out the provisions of this act. Armour, January 26, 1861. January 29, 1801. Gun. XX.-An Ae: foribe Admtiibn of Kimm im the Union. Pmmbh. Whereas the people of the Territory of Kansas, by their representatives in Convention assembled, at Wyandott, in said Territory, on the twenty- ninth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and lilly-nine, did form for themselves a constitution and State government, republican in form, which. was ratified and adopted by the people at an election held for that purpose on Tuesday, the fourth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, and the said Convention has, in their name and behalf, asked the Congress of the United States to admit the said Ter- _ ritory into the Union as a State, on an equal footing with the other gentes: Thsreéimrz it enum Senate and cuss of R resemtatives of the United ldwwb Slam of Amer{ea in Gong-m assembled, Thateghe State of Kansas shall “' be,and is hereby declared to be,one of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever. And the said State shall consist of all the territory Boundaries. included within the followin boundaries, to wit: Beginning ut a point on the western boundary og the State of Missouri, where the thirty- seventh parallel of north latitude crosses the same; thence west on said parallel to the twenty·dfth meridian of longitude west from Washington; thence north un said meridian to the fortieth parallel of latitude; thence
