FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. IH. Ch. 139-142. 1881. 505 of said Choctaw Nation shall be taken within sixty days after the rendition of said judgment, and the said courts shall give such cause precedenoe. Sec. 2. Said action shall be commenced by a petition stating the facts on which said nation claims to recover and the amount of its claim; and said petition may be verified by either of the authorized delegates of said nation as to the existence of such facts, and no other statements need be contained in said petition or verification. Approved, March 3, 1881. CHAP. 140.—Au act to amend section twenty-three hundred and twenty-six of the March 3, 1881. Revised Statutes relating to suit at law aifecting the title to mining claims. —··——·j·— Be it enacted In; the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if, in any action brought pursuant to section twenty-three hundred and twenty-six of the Revised R. S. 2326. Statutes, title to the ground in controversy shall not be established by A;¤¤¤¤d¤d- _ _ either party, the jury shall so iind, and judgment shall be entered ,,,1:**1** *° mmm? according to the verdict. In such case costs shall not be allowed to mm` either party, and the claimant shall not proceed in the land-office or be entitled to a patent for the ground in controversy until he shall have perfected his title Approved, March 3, 1881. CHAP. 141.-An act to amend the act entitled "An act to encourage the establish- Much 3, ]_88]__ ment of public marine schools", approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and —————-— seventy-four, so as to extend it to the ports of Wilmington,' Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Galveston, and in Narragansett Bay. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled "An act Public marine to encourage the establishment of public marine schools", approved June ¤<=h<>¤1¤, €S°¤bh¤h· twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, be, and the same is, m'}¥?,€,,* Wn_ amended so that it shall extend to the ports of Wilmington, Charleston, mingtou, (Amie,. Savannah, Mobile, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Galveston, and in Nar- ton, Savannah, m, an B Mobile, New Or— g Sett ay` leans Baton Approved) Mamh 3) ’(gT3dV8S150!1, Bell 111 3»I‘I`£lg3¤11- sett Bay. —-—- 1874, ch. 339, 18 Stat., 121. CHAP. 142.-—An act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to sell certain real Mamh 3, 1881- estate belonging to the United States, and vesting the title to certain other lands ww; in the city of Vincennes, in the State of Indiana, and for other purposes. Whereas, the United States heretofore through the intervention of Preamble. trustees acquired title for debt to certain real estate situate in and near m ;’é,qS°‘Q;¥¤· the city of Vincennes, in the county of Knox, and State of Indiana, ceumsa f,E,,,;‘Z described as follows: The southeast half of lot number one and the vggpjpé time of Whole of lot number eight in Harrison’s addition to the borough, now certain lands in \ City, of Vincennes, and also survey number five in upper prame sur- ggugty of VHP veys, in township three north, range ten west, contaming eighty-two ‘ acres and eighty-one hundredths of an acre, known as the “Steam Mill Tract", and situate in Knox County, Indiana; and Whereas the said eighty-two and eighty-one hundredths acre tract of Description. land consists of a strip of about twenty-six rods in width commencing on the Wabash River, thence running in a southerly direction through said city of Vincennes and far beyond its limits; that said city has been built up on both sides of said land and its streets abut thereon, said city not having the legal right to lay out and improve her streets through the same ; in consequence whereof that part of said c1ty through which said land is located has been greatly hindered and obstructed m its growth; and
