FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 187, 188, 203. 1894. 995 follows, to wit: Beginning at a point five and five one-hundredths chains west and fifteen and sixty-five onehundredths chains north from the northeast corner of section one, township one south, range three west; thence west forty chains; thence south fifty-nine degrees, west twenty-four chains; thence south twenty-ive degrees, west twenty and thirteen one-hundredths chains; thence south thirty degrees thirty minutes, east fortyeight and twenty-nve one—hnndredths chains; thence east twenty-six and iiiteen one-hundredths chains; thence south one and seventy-five one-hundredths chains; ithence east fifty-eight and eighty-five one-hundredths chains; thence north fifty-seven and seventy-five one-hundredths chains ; thence west thirtymine and ninety- three one-hundredths chains; thence north fifteen and sixty- five onehundredths chains to the place of beginning; to be divided between husband and wife, as in the original patent, and that said patent shall have the same force and eifect a to the title of all purchasers and grantees of any portion of said land claim from said patentees, or either of them, as if the same had been executed and delivered at the date of the execution of said patent, dated April twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. Approved, August 1, 1894. CHAP. 188.-An Act To place Dunbar R. Ransom on the retired list of the Army. August 1.1894- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the £¤¤l{)¤¤‘ R-Eggp- United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to nominate and, by Aruiyyrstigiiioiist. u and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint Dunbar R. Ransom, late captain in the Third Artillery of the Army, a captain in the Army, and to place him on the unlimited retired list. Received by the President, July 20, 1894. [NOTE BY THE DEPARTJIENT or STATE.—The foregoing Act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] CHAP. 203.-An Act For the relief of Andrew Gray. August 3, 1804. Whereas the commission duly appointed under the Act of Congress iwmtip. approved October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, recommended v01.2¤.p.css. the reinstatement and approval for patents of the homestead entry of the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter, and the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section twenty-two, and the 'southwest quarter of the northwest quarter, and the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section twenty-three, in township numbered twenty-three north, of range numbered twelve west, of Mount Diablo meridian, in the State of Calitornia, made by Andrew Gray on October ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, upon which he has continuously resided ever since, and has made improvements thereon worth more than four thousand dollars; and \Vhereas said entry was erroneously canceled by the Commissioner of the General Land Office on September fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, for conflict with the boundaries of the Round Valley Indian Reservation as denned by the Act of Congress approved V·>¤-1w-SM- March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, subsequent to said entry; and
