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326 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 60, 61, 62, 64. 1881, Sec. 2, That the sixth clause of section twenty-nve hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes be amended so as to read as follows: 0,,11,%,,0, to m- ** Sixth. In the district of Bangor, a collector, who shall reside at side at Bangor, a Bangor, a deputy collector, who shall reside at Frankfort; and a deputy g_¤n¤;>}°°g1°°*g*d“* collector, who shall reside at Vanceboro." 1,;:; .311,23,,- gt Approved, February 17, 1881. Vanceboro. FE1, 18 1g3L CHAP. 61.-An act to grant lands to Dakota, Montana, Arizona, Idaho, and Wyo- _..;.._. ming for university purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Lands granted States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and are hereby, to Territories or granted to the Territories of Dakota, Montana, Arizona, Idaho, and_Wy- Dqkvw, Montana, oming respectively, seventy-two entire sections of the unappropriated A“”°“°*> mjhf°> public lands within each of said Territories, to be immediately selected 3i1V3g?;} ID? 1, $1; and withdrawn from sale and located under the direction of the Secretary poses. of the Interior, and with the approval of the President of the United States, for the use and support of a university in each of said Territories Promos. when they shall be admitted as States into the Union: Provided, That none of said lands shall be sold except at public auction, and after appraisement by a board of commissioners, to be appointed by the Secre~ tary of the Interior: Provided further, That none of said lands shall be sold at less than the appraised value, and in no case at less than two dollars and fifty cents per acre: Provided, That the funds derived from the sale of said lands shall be invested in the bonds of the United States and deposited with the Treasurer of the United States; that no more than one-tenth of said lands shall be offered for sale in any one year; that the money derived from the sale of said lands, invested and deposited as hereinbefore set forth, shall constitute a university fund, that no part of said fund shall be expended for university buildings, or the salary of professors or teachers, until the same shall amount to hfty thousand dollars, and then only shall the interest on said fund be used for either of the foregoing purposes until the said fund shall amount to one hundred thousand dollars, when any excess, and the interest thereof, may be used for the proper establishment and support respectively of said universities. Approved, February 18, 1881. Feb. 18, 1881. CHAP. 62.-An act to fix the times for holding the district and circuit courts of the ———————--1 United States for the western district of Texas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _United States States of America in Congress assembled, That the district and circuit 61*30* Mid mgcuit courts of the United States within and for the western district of Texas

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,,,.1,,,,1 1101.1 ’ commencing on the first Tuesdays in January and June , at San Antonio, commencing on the first Tuesdays in March and October ; at Brownsville, commencing on the fourth Tuesdays in April and November. Sec. 2. That all laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Sec. 3. That this act take effect on the first day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-one. Approved, February 18, 1881. Fg5b_ 21, 1g3L CHAP. 64.-A.n act amending the charter of the Freed.mau’s Savings and Trust Com- -—j-—— pany, and for other purposes. , _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives o the United 1,,g;€6£§1&“·FE;;1 States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the seventh Company. section of the act entitled "An act amending the charter of the Freed