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be, and the same are hereby, extended and con
] tinued in force until the first day of December
/ eighteen hundred and fifty five.
SEC 3. And be ii further enacted, That every per-
son entitled to the benefit of the fourth section
! the act of which this is amsndatory, who was resi-
Gent IN said Territory or prior to the first Of
/ december, eighteen hundred and fifty, shall
pc, ana hereby is, required to file with the sur
veyor general OF said Territory, in advance of the
time when the public SURVEYS shall be extended
over the particular land claimed by him, where
those surveys shall not have been made previopa
70 .ne Gate OF this act, notice in writing setting
iortn nle claim to the benefits of said section and
citing all required particulars in reference to snch
settlement claim; and all persons failing to rive
such notice on or prior to the first of December.
| eighteen hundred and fifty three, shall be there.
after debarred from ever receiving any benefit I'M
der said fourth section. And all persons Who on the
hrst December, eighteen hundred and fifty. three
shall have settled on surveyed lands in said Terri
tory IN virtue OF the provisions of the fifth section
OF the act OF which this is amendatory, who shall
TAIL to give notice in writing of such settlement,
specifying the particulars thereof to the surveyor
general of said Territory. prior to the first of
April, eighteen hundred and fifty FIVE, shall be
fits of said fifth section
SEC. T. And be it further enacted That from and
after the first of April, eighteen hundred and fifty
nve all public lands within the limits of the town
west of the Cascade mountains which shall not
have. been claimed under the provisions of the
fourth and fifth sections of the act of which this is
amendatory, or reserved for public uses by law,
or order OF the President, and excepting also min
eral lands, shall be subject to public sale and
private entry as other public lands OF the Uni
ted States; and SO soon as he shall deem expedient
the President of the United States shall by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate appoint
receiver OF public moneys for the Territory of Ore
gon, west of the Cascade mountains, who shall give
bond and security, in the penalty of fifty thousand
aoliars, Tor the faithful discharge of his official
E dnfio rrodo L.
to the public lands of the United States in said
Territory, shall be the same as those of other like
officers OF the United States, and who shall be al
lowed not exceeding FIVE hundred dollars per an.
NUN LOT the saIe-keeplng and accounting for the
public moneys by him received, including all
charges Tor Office rent and clerk hires and at such
time as the President of the United States shall
deem 1t expedient, he shall appoint, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate register of
the land office for the Territory of Oregon, west
OF the Cascade mountains, who shall enter into
pond, with sufhclent security, for the faithful dis
charge of his official duties, as other like officers
and whose duties and authority, under the direc-
ton OF the Secretary of the Interior shall be the
same as those imposed by law on other like Off
cers, consistent thy with the provisions of this act
and OF the act of which this is amendatory, and
whose compensation shall be equal to that allowed
to the receiver of public moneys to be appointed
under this act; and until such register shall have
been appointed, and entered upon the discharge
of his official duties, the surveyor general of Ore
gon shall perform all the duties which shall apper-
tain to such office.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That each wi
dow now residing in Oregon Territory and such
others shall locate in said Territory whose hus
band, had he lived, would have been entitled to a
claim under the provisions of the act to which this
is an amendment, shall be entitled, under the pro-
visions and requirements of said act, to the same
quantity OF land that she would have been but for
the death of her husband; and that in case of the
death ofthe widow prior to the expiration of the four
years continued possession required by said act,
to which this is amendment all the rights of the
deceased shall inure unto and be vested in the
heirs-at-law of such widow
SEC. 9, And be it further enacted, That all reser-
vations heretofore. as well as hereafter, made in
pursuance ofthe fourteenth section of the act to
which this is an amendment, shall, for magazines,
arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful public
uses, except for forts, be limited to an amount not
exceeding twenty acres for each and every of said
objects at any point or place, and for forts to
an amount not exceeding six hundred and forty
acres at any one point or place: Provided That #
1t shall be deemed necessary, in the Judgment of
the President, to include in any such reservation
the improvement ofany settler made previous to
such reservation it SHALL in such case, be the duty
OF the Secretary of War to the value of such
Improvements to be ascertained; and the amount
80 ascertained shall be paid to the party entitled
thereto, out of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated.
SEC. TO- A,ad be 1t further enacted, That the said
surveyor general, in the discharge of his duties
under this act, shall be subject all the provisions
of the act entitled can act to provide for the better
organization of the treasury and for the collection,
safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the
hundred and forty-six; and all acts and parts of
acts in conflict with the provisions Of this act be-
and the same are hereby, repealed.
Approved February IA, 1858.