PUBLIC ACTS CF THE FCRTYSEVENTH CONGRESS or rm: UNITED STATES, Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the D18tT$0¢ of Columbia, on Monday, the fourth day of December, 1882, and was adjourned without day on Saturday, the third day of March, 1883. CHESTER A. ARTHUR, President; DAVID DAVIS, President of the Senate, pro tempore, who acted as such until Saturday, the third day of March, 1883, when, at twelve o’clock, noon, GEORGE F. EDMUNDS was elected President of the Senate pro tempore, il;} place of DAVID DAVIS, resigned. J. WARREN Kmman, Speaker of the House of presentatives. _ · CHAP. 1.-Au not to rectig and establish the title of the United States to the Dec. 13, 1882. site of e military post at El Paso, Texas. —·———··; Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order fully and accu~ Site of military rately to carry out an agreement heretofore made between the United vest, E1 P¤¤<>. States and the heirslof Simeon H by which the latter, for T°‘“· the consideration of one hundred do agreed to convey to the United · States a tract of land containing one hundred and thirty-two acres, more or less, situated at El Paso, Texas, as a site for the military post ‘ authorized to be established by an act of Congress approved February Title estabfourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for the purpose of cor- lishedrecting and rectifying the grant igtended to belmayde gdsrggaasd in Sand _ b certain deeds executed and d ivere to the ni on p- tevmber twenty-fifth, eighteen hundredL‘a)n<lllrslev;aE;1tyé’ni1;§, Iby gnltogig H and Juan Hart by his attorney n 0 ar w 10 said e cohlgined erroneous descriptions of siaid premises, by reason of which certain land intended to be conveyed was not included in the grant, and certain land not intended to be conveyed was in fact embraced therein, the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and requ1red_ to receive from said’heirs or other proper persons holding or representing legal title, a new, accurate, and complete conveyance to the United States of the premises originally agreed and intended to be conveyed to and vested in the same for the purpose aforesaid; and for and m the name of the United States, to reconvey to the said heirs, or other proper parties, such portion of the land as has lieietofore beetnéerroneonuslz ::2- · vc edto the United States by reasono emcorrec escnp o · MEM in the said deeds atbresaid. Approved, December 13, 1882. bli Pri te to ak rta' purchases D .21, 1882. GEAP. 5. An at to •utYhi<g1x::t;1:v£:m:hv8n?B°;cut m ° m °° ‘ wanted Senate nd Home Representatives of the United Staltzbf Amerigd Oongres•aasse»nbled,(That it is lawful for the Public 1rm;::¤eG¢:fv¤;u;1>: Printer to purchase in the open market, without previous adver} gig; Prin Hug tisement, such supplies as the Government Printing office may require, o 0,,,68, om ink rollers, composition for making rollers, tapes, pressblankets, and lubiieating oils · taking care that only the lowest market prices be_pa1d for the quality df the articles purchased and when practicable, issue drenlsm for bids from persons capable 0 supplying them. Approved, December 21, 1882. (39.,,
