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FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 1215, 1216. 1888. 615 embrace no lands in the actual possession of any settler or purchaser from the Wallace Town Company, and not to consist of over forty acres in all, the purchase price of the same to be thirt dollars per Price. acre ; and the Secretary of the Interior shall survey anal, establish by metes and bounds the exterior limits of said tract. Sec. That the Wallace Water-Works Company, a corporation wmacs ws:"- organized under the laws of the State of Kansas, is hereby granted x°{,'§§fg2,‘},‘,jR§”,{,’ {Q; the preference right, for the period of three months after the ¤¤r¤¤i¤1¤¤<1s. appraisement herein provided for, to purchase the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section twenty-five, township thirteen south, range thirty-nine west, at such price as may be Hxed thereon race. by the Secretary of the Interior, not less than two dollars and a half per acre; and said Water-Works Company is hereby granted the use of a right of way, not exceeding twenty-five feet in width, for the Right of wwpurpose of maintaining the line of pipes now laid and laying and repairing the same hereafter, and connecting said tract of land with fihi city of Wallace, the same to be approved by the Secretary of the n erior. ·· Sec. 4. That the use of the southeast quarter of the southeast 0<¤¤i¤i>¤ivquarter of section twenty, township; thirteen south, range thirty- eiight west, heretofore set apart by the military authorities of Fort allace as a cemetery, is hereby granted to the city of Wallace for cemetery purposes, said grant to continue so long as the said tract is used as a cemetery, and when such use ceases the same shall revert to the Government: Provided, That bodies heretofore interred in mum. said ground shall not be disturbed. Sec. 5. That the northeast quarter of section twenty-nine, town- beB¤ii&ii¤s¤ www ship thirteen south, range thirty-eight west, being that portion of S° ` sai reservation on whic are situated the buildings constituting the Fort Wahace military post, shall be appraised under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior and sold at public or private sale, as he may deem to the best advantage of the Government, except that it shall not be sold at less than its appraised price. Sec. 6. That the remainder of said reservation shall be disposed of ;,el`2*SP°¤¤* °f *°¤*¤i¤- under the homestead laws, except the (privileges granted by section R'.s.,;ec.z·1o1,p.421. twenty-three hundred and one of said homestea laws : Provided, f]Q!,’,€{"§; Singh, pu,._ That the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, limit the ¤¤¤¤¢¤·· quantity of land which may be entered by one entryman,within one mile of the limits of the city of Vlfallace to a quantity not less than forty acres, and not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres. Approved, October 19, 1888. CHAP. 1216.-—An act supplementary to the act approved February third, _ eighteen hundred and eighzy-seven, entitled "fln act to tix the day for the meeting of the electors of President and Vice-President. and to_(prov1de for and regulate the counting of the votes for President and Vice-Pres: ent, and the decision of questions arising thereon." He it enacferl by the Senate and House of .Repre.sen.fafive.s of fhe U wiiecl S/(des of America. in Congress assembled, That the certiii- vOQg*;:;ig€e_Sjg€0¤ cntes and lists of votes for President and Vice—President of the Il;..S..TitlelH. ` United States, mentioned in chapter one of title three of the Revised }§lw*jg’,,§Q·ce¤,¤_ Statutes of the United States, and in the act to which this is a sup- ¢¤¤¢¤¤d1i¤t0f*‘0¤>¤. plement, shall be forwarded, in the manner therein Nprovided, to the resident of the Senate forthwith after the second onday in J anuary, on which the electors shall give their votes. _ Sec. 2. That section one hundred and forty-one of the Revised nfféusgédsec. 141. p. 23. Statutes of the United States is hereby so amended as to read as fol- ' OWS: " Sec. 141. Whenever a certificate of votes from any State has Shgudiug fgpggigg not been received at the seat of Government on the fourth Monday mm