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PUBLIC ACTS OF THE FORTY-N IN TH CONGRESS

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UNITED STATES, Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the sixth day of December, 1886, and was adjourned without day on Thursday, the third day of March, 1887. Gnovmz CLEVELAND, Presidént; J omv Snmnum, President of the Senate pro tempore, who acted as such until Saturday, the twenty-sixth day of February, when Jomv J. INGALLS was elected President of the Senate pro tempore, in place of J 011N SHERMAN, resigned; J omv G. CA1zL1sLn, Speaker of the House of Representatives. $$5:; &;A;:ct for the relief of graduatesof the United States Military Academy, Dec. 20, 1886. ill 0 l1' Y. ·—·——;————— Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Jnited States of America in Congress assembled, That every cadet who has here- Military Acadtofore graduated or may hereafter graduate at the West Point Military my z¤¤d¤=·t¢¤· Academy, and who has been or may hereafter be commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army of the United States, under the laws appointing such graduates to the Army, shall be allowed full pay as second lieu- To receive pay tenant from the date of his graduation to the date of his acceptance of M ¤¢¤¤¤d 1i¤¤*¤¤- and qualification under his commission and during his graduation leave, QS f""" g’“d°“’ in accordance with the uniform practice which has prevailed since the ' establishment of the Military Academy. Approved, December 20, 1886.

 CHAP. 3.-Au act for the retirement of certain odlcers of the Navy of the United Dec. 20, 1886.

totes. ——————-——-— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Ocngress assembled, That Vice-Admiral Stephen O. StX¤;°·Ag*£;' *1 Rowan and Rear-Admiral John L. Worden may, after forty years' serv- md¥’1§;‘¤t hdm'}'f;‘, ice, be retired from active service by the President, upon their own _;,,;,,, L w,,,d,,,,_ application, with the highest pay of the grade to which they belong. May be retired. Approved, December 20, 1886. CHAP. 4.-An act to relin uish the interest of the United States in certain lands Dec. 20, 1886- to the city and county of San }mncisco and their grantees. _;*"‘ Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Rqorescntatives of the United ‘ States of America in Oongresa assembled, That the right, title, and owner- ship of the city and county of San Francisco, in the State of California, C£¤¤ F¤»¤¤¤¤¤<>. to the body of land hereinafter described are hereby conn;-med, and all j . the right and title of the United States to sand land are hereby granted J¤g¤gtpoUmand relinquished to said city and couutyzand to persons, and mn had ";_°‘{;’;j their successors in interest, to whom portions of md {and have been qummd tm heretofore granted and conveyed byor ou behalf of said cnty and county, ($0