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268 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 18, 14, 17. 1854. in the said State, now subject to private entry, nineteen thousand and forty acres of land in legal subdivisions, and shall certify the same to the Secretary of the Interior, who shall, forthwith, on receipt of said certificate, issue, to the State of Indiana, patents for said lands: Provided The proceeds of said lands, when sold, shall be, and forever remain, a fund for the use of the Indiana University. Approved, February 23, 1854. Feb. za, mt. Crm-. XIII. —An Act to Extend zhe Limits of the Pm of New Orlpmw. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Limits of the States of America in Congress assembled, That the port of New Orleans H;*;S°§xI5:I:€;)df be so extended as to embrace the right bank of the Mississippi river, forthe same distance up said bank as it now extends on the left bank. Approved, February 23, 1854. FW- *8, 185*- Gun. XIV. ·—An Act supplemental to an Act entitled “An Act to ascertain and settle zh; —·—···———··—~ Private Land Claims in the State of OGlmTN{d,’7 approved March third, one thousand 1851, ch. 41. emlzt hundred and_/f_/Zy·¢me. Be it enacted by the Senate and Muse of Representatives of the United

Bos? States of America in Congress assembled, That the following named perm mhmffugdp sons, viz: Henry C. Boggs, Levi W. Hardman, Wiley Sneed, Stetionel time to phen Broadhurst, Smith and Kristeen, George H. Woodman, Berthald

gfgiggtmihxg and Lorrin, Fisher and Guildiildt, and Williani Clarke, or either of California md them, or their representatives, may, within six months after the passage <=<>¤¤¤¤i¤¤i<>¤¤¤- of this act, present their claims to the commissioners who were appointed under the provisions of the act to which this is e supplement; and the said commissioners are hereby empowered to hear and dispose of the same as efectually as though tho said claims had been presented in due time, under the thirteenth section of the aforesaid act. Sec. 2. And be €t_;"urthev· enacted, That the persons named in this act Ieimit of their shall be limited and confined, in their claims, to purchases made of Don °l°·‘m“· Salvador Valiigo, 2. Mexican grantee, for a part of the plnce known as “ Entre Napa," and situete in Napa county, State of California. And the said commissioners shall be satisfied that the said persons named derived title to their respective claims previous to the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said persons named shall This wt ¤¤iy be entitled to no privilege not conferred on claimants under the original

fmԤ_ҡӢ m act, but as to un extension of time in which their claims may be respectively made to the said commissioners.

. Approved, February 23, 1854.. Much 1, ISM_ CHAP- XVII.—-· An Act for the Exterpznfqf the Prehnpticn Privilege in the Stale qf ..,... I OTN!-G. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Pm of m of States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the act 1853, nk_ 14,5,,.,. of the fourth of September, eighteen hundred and forty-one, granting 9p¤¤¤{¤z Drs- preemption rights to settlers on the public lands, as modified and made §’:°§;‘1?§Q)x'I%‘f’;’;_ applicable to the State of California by the act of the third of March, 4 banded. eighteen hundred and fifty-three, shall be further modified by extending the provisions of the third proviso in the sixth section of the aforesaid act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, to settlements made prior to and within two years after the passage of this act. Approved, March 1, 1854.