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SIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sees. II. Ons. 50, 53, 54,57. 1914. 1245 situated in the city of Marshalltown described as follows: All that part of the alley situated in block twenty-one in the 0 ' I town of hall, Mars all County, Iowa, extending between the south line of Church Street and the north line of the intersecting alley running east and west in said block. Approved, April 3, 1914. A rn ,1914. CHAP. 53.-—An Act For the relief of Hugh P. Strong. vt *6126*-] Private, No.10. Be it enactedby the Senate and Hous;e¢Z'Re esentatives tithe United [ 1 State8_¢y‘” Anumca in Congress assemb , Tlizt Hugh P. Strong, of ggmggby Superior, Wisconsin, be, and he hereby is, given the right, within two euumuee. ' years after the passage of this Act, to select make entry, and tile upon any one hundred an sixty acres of public land subject to homestead entry; and upon payment of any fees, commissions, ofpmpurchase money due m;c0m1ection therewith, and after publication posting of notice of his said selection or ents? for thirtyadags, under direction of the register of the land district w erein the n are situated, and in the a sence of valid protest or objection, shall be entitled to receive a patent therefor under the general homestead laws without the necessity of establishing, maintaining, or provin§ residence and cultivation upon the same, for the reason that said ugh P. Strong duly made homestead entry numbered two thousand and ninety-six, upon which Jpatent was issued by the United States to said Hugh P. Strong on anuary nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, but which patent was canceled y virtue of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States October twenty-ninth, nineteer hundred and six. _ Approved, April 6, 1914. , . · · A ,1 4. MCSA!. gigftn Act Autherling I. A. Matheny, of Colony, Wyoming, to make [P;i'&f:?, ] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Statesvpf America in Congress assembled, That J. A. Matheny, of Col~ {&$·§,:§,_’*9°g;,m_ ony, yoming, be, and e is hereby, authorized to make homestead summer. entry embracing the south half of the southwest qparter, the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter, and the sout east quarter of the northwest quarter of section twenty, township fifty-six north, range sixty-one west of the sixth principal meridian in Wyoming, after Floyd Compton’s entry therefor s all have been canceled, and to secure title to the same upon satisfactory proof of compliance with the provisions of the homestead laws. Approved, April 6, 1914. CHAP. 57.--An Act For the relief of Bellevadorah Steele. A!Eg!g&HU· Be it enacted by the Senate and Hmzs¢;;{Re§>reaent41tivea of the United [Prove. N¤. 121 States of America in Congress aasemb , That the Secretary of the §‘${’§’,,’j §{§,°°,§°,; Treasusg be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to 1¤r1¤¤¤¤¤¤¤b¤¤<1- Bellev orah Steele, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,248, in full compensation for npiylunes received b Horatio N. Steele, husband of the said Bellev orah Steele, whilb performing his duties as a master mechanic in the gaincarriage shop of the navy yard at Washington, District of Colum 1a. Approved, April 15, 1914. 96497**-vox. 38-rr 2--2