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tions are

not in

Mexican grants.

SEC 2. That where indemnity school selections have been made and When by final survey school sec- certified to said State, and said selection shall fail by reason of the land in lieu of which they were taken not being included within such final survey of a Mexican grant, or are otherwise defective or invalid, the same are hereby confirmed, and the sixteenth or thirty-sixth section in lieu of which the selection was made shall, upon being excluded from such final survey, be disposed of as other public lands of the United States: Provided, That if there be no such sixteenth or thirty-sixth section, and the land certified therefor shall be held by an innocent pur chaser for a valuable consideration, such purchaser shall be allowed to prove such facts before the proper land-office, and shall be allowed to pur chase the same at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, not te exceed three hundred and twenty acres for any one person: Provided, That if such person shall neglect or refuse, after knowledge of such facts, to furnish such proof and make payment for such land, it shall be subject to the general land-laws of the United States.

Innocent purchasers of land cer

tified for school sections protected.

Proviso.

Confirmation not to extend to claims of actual

settlers.

If settlement

made in good faith.

Time for proof of settlement, etc.,

limited.

Not to apply to

SEC 3. That the foregoing confirmation shall not extend to the lands
settled upon by any actual settler claiming the right to enter not exceed-
ing the prescribed legal quantity under the homestead or pre-emption
laws: Provided, That such settlement was made in good faith upon
lands not occupied by the settlement or improvement of any other per-
son, and prior to the date of certification of said lands to the State of
California by the Department of the Interior: And provided further,
That the claim of such settler shall be presented to the register and re-
ceiver of the district land-office, together with the proper proof of his
settlement and residence, within twelve months after the passage of
this act, under such rules and regulations as may be established by the
Commissioner of the General Land Office.

SEC 4. That this act shall not apply to any mineral lands, nor to any
mineral lands, etc. lands in the city and county of San Francisco, nor to any incorporated
city or town, nor to any tide, swamp, or overflowed lands.
Approved, March 1, 1877.

March 2, 1877.

Commissioner to
prepare new edi-

tion of Revised
Statutes.

of com

Duty
missioner.
1874, ch. 333,
18 Stat., 113.

CHAP. 82.—An act to provide for the preparation and publication of a new edition of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, one person, learned in the law, as a commissioner, for the purpose of preparing and publishing a new edition of the first volume of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

SEC. 2. That in performing this duty, said commissioner shall be required to incorporate into the text of the Revised Statutes as published in the year anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-five, under the act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, all the amendments which have been made in the revision so published since the first day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and all that shall Amendments to be made up to the close of the present session of Congress, with margi be incorporated. nal references to such amendatory acts, and to all the decisions of the References. several courts of the United States, (as far as the same may have been published,) which may have been made subsequent to those already cited in the margin of the present revision, and may include also citations to such judicial decisions of the various State courts as he may References to sub- deem important; and he shall also make marginal references to the sequent legisla- various statutes passed by Congress since the first day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, not expressly therein declared to be amendments to the Revised Statutes, but which, in the opinion of said commissioner, may in any manner affect or modify any of the provisions of the said Revised Statutes, or any of the amendments thereto, indicating in such marginal notes by a difference in type the references

tion

to statutes of this kind, and he shall revise the indexes and incorporate therein references to the additions herein required.

Revision of indexes.

Additional mat

SEC. 3. That there shall also be included in said edition the Articles of Confederation, the Declaration of our National Independence, the Ordi- ter to be included. nance of seventeen hundred and eighty seven for the government of the Northwestern Territory, the Constitution of the United States, with foot notes referring to decisions of the federal courts thereon, the "Act to provide for the revision and consolidation of the statute laws of the United States," approved June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and the "Act providing for publication of the Revised Statutes and the laws of the United States," approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, as well as the present act.

1866, ch. 140, 14 Stat., 74, 1874, ch. 333,

18 Stat., 113.

When to be com

Certificate of ex

amination.

SEC. 4. That said new edition shall be completed in manuscript by said commissioner by the first day of January anno Domini eighteen pleted in manuhundred and seventy-eight, and by him presented to the Secretary of script. To be presented State for his examination and approval, who is hereby required to ex- to Secretary of amine and compare the same as amended, with all the amendatory acts, State for approval. and, within two months after having been submitted to him, and when the same shall be completed, the said Secretary shall duly certify the same under the seal of the Secretary of State, and when printed and promulgated as herein provided the printed volume shall be legal and conclusive evidence of the laws and treaties therein contained, in all the courts of the United States, and of the several States and Territories, and said Secretary shall cause fifteen thousand copies of the same to be printed and bound at the Government Printing Office, under the super- printed. vision of said commissioner, at the expense of the United States, and without unnecessary delay.

SEC. 5. That said commissioner shall receive, as full compensation

Declared legal evidence.

Number to be

Compensation

for all services above required to be performed by him, the sum of five for commissioner. thousand dollars.

Approved, March 2, 1877.

CHAP. 83.-An act for the relief of the board of trustees of the Antietam National
Cemetery

March 2, 1877.

Appropriation. Payment of debt Antietam Na tional Cemetery.

of

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of discharging the balance of the indebtedness incurred by the board of trustees of the Antietam National Cemetery in establishing the same and improving the grounds thereof and the proper burial therein of the soldiers who fell on the battle-field of Antietam, there be appropriated the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, in the liquidation of such indebtedness; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of Cemetery to be War to hereafter provide for the preservation and superintendence of one of the United the said cemetery as one of the national cemeteries of the United States cemeteries. under the laws now in force in regard to such national cemeteries: Provided, That the said sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to discharge the present existing indebtedness shall not be paid until the legal title to the said property shall be vested in the United States.

Approved, March 2, 1877.

States national

Proviso.

March 2, 1877.

CHAP. 84.-An act to authorize the board of trustees of the city of Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, to enter and purchase for the use of said city certain public lands. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the board of trustees of the city of Cheyenne, in the Territory of Wyoming, are hereby author- may enter and purized and empowered to enter and purchase, for the use of said city in chase certain land.

Cheyenne, W. T,

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Patent to issue.

March 2, 1877.
Preamble.

ent for certain
lands.

maintaining a reservoir of water, and for other purposes, the north half
and the southeast quarter of section numbered thirty, in township num-
bered fourteen north, of range numbered sixty-six west of the sixth
principal meridian, of lands in the district of Wyoming Territory; said
lands being now withdrawn from entry or sale and reserved for the use
of said city.

SEC. 2. That upon the entry of said lands by said board of trustees of
the city of Cheyenne, and the payment therefor to the United States of
the sum of two dollars and fifty cents per acre, patent shall issue to the
said board of trustees of the city of Cheyenne, conveying to said board
of trustees, for the use and benefit of the said city of Cheyenne, in the
Territory of Wyoming, the title of the United States in and to the said
lands.

Approved, March 2, 1877.

of land.
CHAP. 85.-An act granting to the city of Stevens Point, Wisconsin a certain piece

Whereas, there is situated in the Wisconsin River, within the city of
Stevens Point, Wisconsin, a small island containing less than one square
acre of land, which has for many years been used for the storage of
powder and other combustible or inflammable goods, and the people of
said city are desirous that the said island be granted to the city for that
purpose: Therefore,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stevens Point, States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of the Wis., to have pat- General Land-Office of the United States be, and he is hereby, instructed to cause to be patented to the city of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, the following described piece of land, to wit, the island in the Wisconsin River, within the corporate limits of the city of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, in section thirty-one, township numbered twenty-four north, in range eight east, of the fourth principal meridian in said State. Approved, March 2, 1877.

March 3, 1877.

be built.

CHAP. 99.-An act to provide a building for the use of the United States district and circuit courts, the post office, and internal revenue officers at Austin, Texas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Public building States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the at Austin, Tex., to Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to cause to be constructed a suitable building with fire proof vaults at Austin in the State of Texas, for the accommodation of the circuit and district courts of the United States, the post office, and the internal revenue officers at a cost not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars including cost of site: Provided That no money shall be used or applied for the purpose mentioned until a valid title to the land for the site of such building shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Texas shall also duly release and relinquish to the United States the right to tax or in any way assess said site and cede jurisdiction thereon or the property of the United States that may be thereon, during the time that the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof.

Limit of cost.
Proviso.

March 3, 1877.

Arte, p. 95.

Approved, March 3, 1877.

CHAP. 100.—An act to repeal the statute forbidding appointments and promotions in the staff of the Army.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United R.S., 1194, p. 212, States of America in Congress assembled, That section eleven hundred and ninety-four of the Revised Statutes, now applying only to grades repealed. in the Pay Department of the Army above the rank of major, is hereby repealed.

Approved, March 3, 1877.

CHAP. 101.-An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty-stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and fulfilling treaty-stipulations with the various Indian tribes, namely:

For pay of one superintendent of Indian affairs for the Central superintendency, two thousand dollars.

For pay of one superintendent of Indian affairs for the tribes in Dakota, two thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That five hundred dollars of said amount shall be available on the first day of April next. For pay of sixty-nine agents of Indian affairs, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, (except the one in Iowa and the one at the Flandreau agency, which are at six hundred dollars each per annum,) namely:

Six for the tribes in Oregon, namely, Warm Springs, Klamaths, Grand Ronde, Siletz, Umatilla, and Malheur agencies;

Five for the tribes in Washington Territory, namely, Neah Bay, Yakama, Colville, Nisqually, and S'Kokomish agencies;

Two for the tribes in California, namely, Round Valley and Tule River agencies;

Two for the tribes in Nevada, namely, Pi Ute and Walker River, and Pyramid Lake agencies;

Three for the tribes in Idaho, namely, Nez Perce, Lemhi, and Fort Hall agencies;

Four for the tribes in Montana, namely, Flatheads, Blackfoot, Crow, and Fort Peck agencies;

Eleven for the tribes in Dakota, namely, Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, Yankton, Ponca, Crow Creek, Standing Rock, Cheyenne River, Fort Berthold, Sisseton, Devil's Lake, and Lower Brule agencies;

One additional for the tribes in Dakota, at Flandreau agency, six hundred dollars;

One for the tribes in Wyoming, namely, Shoshone agency;
One for the tribes in Utah, namely, Uintah Valley agency;

Five for the tribes in New Mexico, namely, Pueblo, Abiquiu, Navajo,
Mescalero Apache, and Southern Apache agencies;

Three for the tribes in Colorado, namely, Los Pinos, White River, and Southern Ute agencies;

Five for the tribes in Nebraska, namely, Great Nemaha, Omaha, Winnebago, Otoe, and Santee agencies;

One for the tribes in Kansas;

Eight for the tribes in the Indian Territory, namely, Pawnee, Sac and Fox, Quapaw, Osage, Kiowa and Comanche, Cheyenne and Arapaho, Wichita, and Union agencies;

One for the tribes in Minnesota, namely, at the White Earth agency; One for the tribes in Iowa, namely, at the Sac and Fox of Iowa agency, six hundred dollars;

Two for the tribes in Wisconsin, namely, at the Green Bay and La
Pointe agencies;

One for the tribes in Michigan, namely, at the Mackinac agency;
One for the New York Indians, namely, at the New York agency;
Five for the tribes in Arizona, namely, Colorado River, Pima and
Maricopa, Papago San Carlos, and Moquis Pueblo agencies; in all, one
hundred and one thousand seven hundred dollars;

For pay of four special agents, namely, one for the Chippewas at Red Lake; one for the Pillagers at Leach Lake, Minnesota; and two for the tribes in Washington Territory, namely, Tulalip and Quinaielt, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars; and one for the Mission Indians in California, six hundred dollars.

March 3, 1877.

Ante, p. 176.

Appropriations.
Indian service.

Superintendents

Proviso.

Agents.

Special agents.

Clerks at Central superintendency.

Interpreters.

Additional pay

ment.

Inspectors.

Travel of inspect

ors.

Agency build

ings.

Vaccination.

Contingencies.

For pay of one chief clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; one assistant clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; and one copyist, six hundred dollars, for the Central superintendency, three thousand four hundred dollars.

For pay of seventy-six interpreters, as follows:

Seven for the tribes in Oregon, namely, two for the Klamath agency, and one each for the Grand Ronde, Siletz, Umatilla, Warm Spring, and Malheur, at three hundred dollars each;

Six interpreters for the tribes in Washington Territory, to be assigned to such agencies as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, at three hundred dollars each;

Two for the tribes in Idaho, namely, at Nez Perce and Fort Hall agencies, at three hundred dollars each;

Three for the tribes in Nevada, namely, at Pi-Ute and Walker River and Pyramid Lake reservations, at three hundred dollars each;

Five for the tribes in Montana, namely, one each at Flathead, Blackfoot, and Crow, and two at Fort Peck agencies at three hundred dollars each;

Ten for the tribes in Dakota, namely, two at Fort Berthold, and one each at Yankton, Ponca, Crow Creek, Standing Rock, Cheyenne River, Sisseton, Devil's Lake, and Lower Brule agencies, at three hundred dollars each;

One for the tribes in Wyoming, at the Shoshone agency, at three hundred dollars;

One for the tribes in Utah, at three hundred dollars;

Seven for the tribes in New Mexico, namely, two for the Navajo agency, and one each for the Cimarron, Mescalero Apache, Southern Apache, Pueblo, and Abiquiu agencies, at three hundred dollars each; Three for the tribes in Colorado, namely, Los Pinos and White River, and Southern Ute agencies, at three hundred dollars each;

Nine for the tribes in Nebraska, seven to be assigned to such agencies as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, at three hundred dollars each; and one for the Red Cloud and one for the Spotted Tail agency, at three hundred dollars each;

Eight for the tribes in the Indian Territory, to be assigned as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, at three hundred dollars per annum each; and six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to supply temporary interpreters for the semi-civilized tribes, is hereby appropriated;

Three for the tribes in Wisconsin, namely, one for the Green Bay and two for the La Pointe agency, at three hundred dollars each;

Four for the tribes of Minnesota, namely, Boise Forte, White Earth, Red Lake, and Leach Lake special agencies, at three hundred dollars each;

Two for the tribes in Michigan, namely, Mackinac agency, at three hundred dollars each ;

Six for the tribes in Arizona, namely, two for San Carlos, and one each for Colorado River, Pima and Maricopa, Moquis Pueblo, and Papago agencies, at three hundred dollars each; in all, twenty-three thousand seven hundred dollars.

For additional payment of the said interpreters, to be distributed in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, six thousand dollars. For pay of three Indian inspectors, at three thousand dollars each, nine thousand dollars.

For necessary traveling-expenses of three Indian inspectors, five thou sand dollars.

For buildings at agencies, and repairs of the same, fifteen thousand dollars.

For vaccine matter and vaccination of Indians, five hundred dollars. For contingencies of the Indian service, including traveling, incidental, current, and contingent expenses of superintendents and agents, and of their offices, thirty thousand dollars.