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ranoa be- and he hereby is authorized TO issue an en-
oI,nant and license for the steamboat now called the
nn Hereof William A, Carson, paying the usual fees
nmnlying all respects with the laws regulating the
Using trade said enrolment shall state, addition
10 the suaaescpton tina, the former name of said steam
boat was Charles Downing and that 1t was changed by
authority Oh luis a'' RoBT. G. WINTHROP,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
G. NJ DALLAS,
Vice President of the United States and
President OF the Senate.
APPROVAL ''''' JAMES X POLK
[PunLIc-No. 52l
ACT authorize the issuing register to the schooner
James.
BE enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives. OF
III, United of america Congress assembled, That
there issued undsr the direction of the Secretary OF the
Treasury register enrolment for the schooner James,
iomery British vessel but now owned by Timothy Car
man. cirzen OF South Oyster Bay Queens county, State
of New York. and which said vessel having been wrecked
and condemned on the south shore of Long Island
purchased oy him, and which he has caused to be re-
paired Provided 1t shall be proved The satisfaction OF
he Secretary The Treasury that the of the repairs
made the United States after the purchase of the said
vessel by the present exceeds threeourths of the
original Of building vessel of the tonnage in the
APPROVED, June 81 1913.
[PUBLc-No 53.l
AN ACT concerning the taking Of official oaths in the Dis
rct OF Columbia.
enacted By the Senate and House Of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
GERS the United States may in the District of Columbia,
administered and certified by any of the judges Of
the said District.
APPROVED June %, lStS
tPuBLIc--No 5ll
AN ACT respecting certain surveys the State of Florida
Be enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives.
of the United States of america Congress assembled That
the OF the General LaDd Office is hereby
.hozed and directed to cause 10 be surveyed as soon as
Florida, interspcrsed with water which cannot conve
neny be connected with the regular public surveys and
also the private claims or grants which have been duly
confirmed situate in said state and that such surveys OF
said islands keys and lands interspersed with water as
aforesaid be made by such persons such terms,
and in such mode and manner as said Commissioner may
deem most expeden and proper without conne1ion there
of with the other public surveys, by township lines but
the pense thereof shall exceed the maximum price
States other States Territories and the surveys of said
private claims grants be made by such persons,
expeden and proper but the expense thereof shall not in
any exceed twenty-five per cenum the said price
however That shall be the duty of the President at some
tme and before offering OF said islands for
board of engineers ascertain whether OF said islands
parts of tiem and if which of them should be re-
islands parts of stands recommended by such board
be reserved for public shall be reserved from SALE
APPROVED June rs, lS4S
[PuBLIc-No. 55]
AN ACT for relief of fde settlers under the
for the armed occupation and settlement OF part OF
the Territory OF Florida
Be enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives. OF
the United States of Amerca Congress assembled, That
in all which proof shall be made the satisfaction
of the Commissioner of the General Land Office that any
person who obtained permit under the act entitled An
act provide for The armed occupation and settlement OF
the unsettled part of the peninsula OF Florida, approved
August fourth, eighteen hundred and forty two and who
occupant under that act and the act anendatory
thereof, approved June fifteenth eighteen hundred and
forty four, and who actually occupied or settled under SAID
acts, and did voluntarily renqush and abandon the
same but continued reside said frontier south OF said
line specified in said act OF eighteen hundred ana iory
two, thereby aiding TO effect the object OF said acts ana
who has not received the lands provided by said acts such
shall be entitled grant and patent Tor the land SO
occupied settled by him, the same as if all the cond
General Land Office in relation thereto had been fully and
strictly fulfilled and complied with
sEc.2 Aad be h(~thsr enacted That in all cases where
thereof legally subject TO donation under
the said acts on any account whaeye then such se.e,
public lands IN the same, or any adjacent ownshP
SEc AHd be further enacted That this act shall ex-
tend TO- and be construed and for benefit the
dow aud heirs OF any settler according TO the principles
SEC A. And be it further enacted That Immediately
after the passage OF this act the Secretary OF the treasury
na appon' an h 70 o s6e State of Florida where
said lands M who shall attend at least ten successive days
pooby dispositions before him. or in such manner
he may prescribe in relation to such settlement or occ
PATTON and of settlers being entitled under this act 10
grant or donation land aforesaid and said agent shall
also attend such other places in said settlements as the
Of such settlers in furnishing their proofs may
demand under instructions of the General Land Office
said agent SHALL within five months after he shall com
his duties IN SAID transmit Proois ne
take and make report OF his opinion as to each case
said Commissioner the General Land Office who shall
forthwith examine and decide said cases; FRO
pid That settler does submit his proof to such
agent within four months after reasonable notice. by adver
emen of The times and places OF his attendance to receive
proof said settle shall not have the beneft oil ms act
and all the reported aforesaid shall be dehniuvey
dec by Commissioner of the General Land once
within TWO months report thereof is received at his
office and said agent shall be allowed the same
ton as allowed by Jaw to examining agents OF the Treas
nry Department.
APPROVED July LIST, 1873
[PuBIc-No. So
AN ACT suppleme to passed the ninth day
of July in the year eighteen hundred and lory,six,
entitled An etrocede the county OF Alexandria
in the District Of Columbia to the State OF virginia
Be enacted by the Senate and House of Represenat,pes Of
the Uned States OF america IN Congress aemosd,
the Supreme Court of the United States shall have u,,
power and jurisdiction hear and determine, and sbal'
proceed in due course hear aud detern me, all causes
which had been removed said court from the circuit
court of the District OF Columbia, holden In ana or me
late county OF Alexandria, by writ OF error OF aPPe' u.
time when the jurisdiction and laws atey existhg IN so
provided and by the third section OF the act TO
this supplemental and shall deal with and dispose Oh me
in the manner and pursuant to the same laws
rules and regulations would have applied 10 ana governed
the said the had duly heard ana deter
mined in the said Supreme Court before the SAID
and laws had ceased and determined aforesad and all
judgments, DEGREES, and mandates, after that ne issuing
from the said Supreme Court in such cause or causes
shall be certified and transmitted by the clerk OF said On
peme Court such court the judge Judges OF such
court has been vested, shall may be vested with
any carry the same into effect to act Judi.
cay touching the same, by law OF the State OF Vtr
pnia in such provided hereafter to be enacted and
provided , . ,y Ia,
of the crcu court the District OF Columbia for the
~ of Washington and of the clerk of said conrt and they