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238 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. OH. 227, 234. 1880, passes and acts done or committed and conspiracies entered into prior HMM- to March nrst, eighteen hundred andseventy-nine: And provided further, That defendants in such suits or proceedings shall exhibit to the propercourts or officer the evidence of such entry and payment and shall pay all costs accrued up to the time of such entry. . Homestead en- Sec. 2. That persons who have heretofore under any of the homestead

  • ¤'i°¤» ***1** °£ laws entered lands properly subject to such entry, or persons to whom

the right of those having so entered for homesteads, may have bcen_attempted to be transferred by bona ide instrument in writing may ent1tle themselves to said lands by paying the government price therefor, and in no case less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and the amount heretofore paid the government upon said lands shall be taken Amo, as part payment of said price: Provided, This shall in no wise interfere with the rights or claims of others who may have subsequently entered such lands under the homestead laws. _ _ prim of 13,,48 Sec. 3. That the price of lands now subject to entry wh1ch_were raised in alternate sec- to two dollars and fifty cents per acre, and put in market prior to Janull°"" f§"'*“l·°‘l. mit ary, eighteen hundred and sixty one, by reason of the grant of alternate 5°f3f;f°Qf,‘I$°{nQ§S;§; sections for railroad purposes is hereby reduced to one dollar and twenty- acre, I five (J€IltS PGI' 3(STG. Miner;;,] lands Sec. 4. This act shall not apply to any of the mineral lands of the ercepted from pro- United States; and no person who shall be prosecuted for or proceeded '*°*°”S °f “°l’· against on accoimt of any trespass committed or material taken from , any of the public lands after March first, eighteen hundred and seventy- nine shall be entitled to the beneiit thereof Approved, June 15, 1880. JUDO 16, lB8U· CHAP. 234.-An act makin appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropri-

  • ations_for the fiscal (year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty and

for prior years, an for those certified as due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury in accordance with section four of the act of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, heretofore paid from permanent appropriations, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Denciency e8;,;,; States if America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and 1>¤>nri¤p’¤i¤¤¤. 1 the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury md P"" Y°’”“· not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter stated, namely: EXECUTIVE OFFICE. Contingent Bx. For contingent expenses of the executive office, including stationery penses of Execu- therefor, one thousand dollars. ilxgrgizzyic Ta} That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in_ the ,0 Y Dm, dddgc, Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Mrs. Bettie Taylor Dandridgc Mass semi. Knox and Miss Sarah Knox Wood, daughter and granddaughter ot General W oo d, daughter Zachary Taylor, late President ol the United States, the sum of twenty-

  • 5; *1 g$`t}'“‘;‘%g“‘E£g five thousand dollars: Provided dluvays, That any sum of money which

Pres,,,,,,,,, Gmwm, shall have been paid to President Taylor or to the personal repro- Zachary Taylor. scntatives of the said Zachary Taylor since his death, on account of Prooiso. his salary as President of the United States for the year from March fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, shall be deducted from the said sum of twenty-five thousand dollars. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Bentnie Garden. Bo·reNrc GA1t1JnN.—For extra labor on. the grounds, putting up seeds, b,§g;,tm§d¤E`s;¤:1Es, and printing labels, eight hundred and fifty dollars. U - SMITHSON IAN INSTITUTION. E,5§p°§;§;£?°t;; For completing the preparation, with the necessary illustrations, of Arctic expedition. the report of Doctor Emil Bessels, of the scientific results of the Arctic