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FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 308-310. 1888. 157 CHAP. 308.-An act to limit the hours that letter-carriers i11 cities sl1all be em- May 24, 1888- ployed per day. Hm Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of A merica in Congress assembled, That hereafter eight L¢**"·¤¤¤i€¤- hours shall constitute a day’s work for letter-carriers in cities or wgght imma days postal districts connected therewith, for which they shall receive the ian1e payfas is pocyv paid as for a daiy’s wgork of a greater number of ours. any e er-carrier is em o e a reater number of hours per day than eight he shall be paid) egtra fogi the same in proportion to the salary now fixed by law. Approved, May 24, 1888. ° CHAP. 309.——An act to increase the limit of cost for the public building in course May 24, 1888, of erection at Charleston, South Carolina. 7 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States og America in Congress assembled, That the limit of §,f}g{}j{35h§AC- cost for the pu lic building about to be erected for the use of the Limit or agi iu. United States courts, post-office, signal service, railway-mail service, °‘"§’$‘?g;,p_394_ and other Government uses, at Charleston, in the State of South Carolina, be fixed at the sum of three hundred thousand dollars instead of the present limit of cost. Approved, May 24, 1888. . CHAP. 310.-An act to restore to the public domain a part of the Uintah Valley May 24, 1888. Indian Reservation, in the Territory of Utah, and for other purposes. `°*‘*— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o{ America in Congress assembled, That so much of dg1g:; ryzpley Inthe Uintah Va ley Indian Reservation, in the Territory of Utah, Portion 03 igiered established by proclamation of the President, of date of OCtOi)8I *° Public d°¤¤¤¤¤- third, eighteen lunnged and sixgyope, as ilies wglniii the fpllowmg boundar , name : e in11111 a mi e- os num ere nine een, u Bcundmes. Bois’ suiyvev, frobtn theginitial oint ehablished in township eight south, range twenty epst, Sal; Ilake meridian ; thence southelyt tp the northeast corner o towns ii two sou , range one east, in va 1 special meridian ; thence south ailong the east boundary of township two south, range one east Uintah special meridian, to the south-east corner of townshi two south, range one east, Uintah special meridian; thence east along the north boundary of township three south, range two east, Uintah special meridian, to its intersection with the east boundary of the Uintah Indian Reservation, thence in a northwest direction with the eastern boundary line of said reservation to the beginning, be, and the same is hereby, declared to_be public lands of the Unite States and restored to the public domain. _ Sec. 2. That said lands shall be disposed of at public or private sm or lands. sale in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, and upon his order, in quantities not exceeding one quarter of a section to any one purchaser, the non-mineral lands for not less than one dollar and _ twenty-five cents per acre, and not Otl·1€I'VV1S.G than for cash; Pro- gggziggmons etc vided, That any location, entry, or entries. mineral or non—1nineral,‘ heretofore made or attempted to be made on said lands, or any part thereof, by any qualified person, shall bear date and be allowed the same as if said lands had een public lands at the time of said attempted location or institution of said proceedings. but said mineral entries shall not be completed except upon the payment of twenty dollars an acre, or at that rate for the amount ta ren up by the claim: And provided_furz‘her, That all moneys arising fromt ie sales of this Intnrgswm to so tv land shall belong to said Indians and e paid into the Treasury of the '