Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-02-19

section, and citing all required partieu.rs 4;
oosh clam and al persons failing to give such
dred and fftythre shall be thereafter dsSrssa S
ever receiving any benefit under said fourth ssc,;
all persons who, on the first December eghtssn
and hfty-three, shall have settled on Ia ~
said Territory in virtue of the provisions of tbs sssL
ton Of the act of which this is amendatory who sh
to give notice in writing Of such settlement specifyno ~
thereof 70 the surveyor general Of said Terri
tory on or prior to the first Of April eighteen hundred
and hftyfve, shall be thereafter debarred from ever -
ceiving the benefits Of said fifth section
Sec Andoe a further enacted That from and after the
hrst OF April eighteen hundred and ty-ye all nuhIic
lands within the limits Of the townships SURVEYED or
surveyed in said Territory, west of the Cascade noun
tains which shall not have been claimed under the proy
sons OF the fourth and fifth sections of the act Of which
this is amendatory reserved for pubouses by law or
order OF the President and excepting also mineral ands
be subject to public sale and private entry as other
Puohc lands OF the United States and soon as he shall
deem expedient the President of the United Statas h
by and with the advice and of the Senate annont
receiver OF pubic moneys for the Territory of Oregon
Yves. 81 the Cascade who shall give bond and
security In the penalty OF fifty thousand dollars for the
faithful discharge of his official trust and whose duties
under the laws in relation to the public lands Of the Init
cd States In said Territory shall be the same as those Of
other like officers of the United States and Who sha ~
allowed not exceeding five hundred dollars Der for
the safe-keepng and accounting for the public moneys
by him received including all charges for Office rent and
clerk hire and at such time the President Of the Unit
ed States shall deem it expeden he shall appoint bv
and with the advice and Of the Senate Register
OF the land office for the Territory Of Oregon west Of the
Cascade mountains, who shall enter into bond with su
cient security for the faithful discharge of his official
duties other like officers and whose duties and autho
rity under the direction Of the Secretary of the Interior
shall be the those imposed by law on other like
ocers consistently with the provisions this act and of
the got CT which ths aaendatory and whose compensa
ton shall be equal to that allowed to the Receiver Of Pub
lie Moneys to &c 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
Oregon shall perform all the duties which shall appertan
to such office.
Sec. 8. And be further enacted That each widow now
residing in Oregon Territory and such others shall To-
cate IN said Territory whose husband had he lived would
have been entitled to claim under the provisions Of the
act to which this is amendment shall be entitled under
the provisions and requirements Of said act the
quantity of land that she would have been but for the
death of her husband and that case the death Of the
widow prior to the expiration of the four years continued
required by said act to which hiss amend
ment all the rights of the deceased shall nure and
be vested in the hers-at-law of such widow.
Sec. g. And be further enacted That all reservations
heretofore well hereafter made in Of the
fourteenth section of the act which this is amend
ment, shall, for magazines arsenas, dock yards, and
other needul public uses except for FORTS be limited
an amount not exceeding twenty for each and
every Of said objects at any point place. and for
forts to amount not exceeding six hundred and forty
acres at any point place Provided That if it shall
be deemed necessary in the judgment of the President
include in any such reservation the improvement of any
settler made previous such reservation it SHALL in such
be the duty of the Secretary of War to cause the
value of such improvements to be ascerained and the
amount ascertained shall be paid to the party entitled
thereto out of any money the Treasury otherwise
appropriated.
Sec TO- 4ndbe further enacted That the said Surveyor
General in the discharge of his duties under this act shall
be subject all the provisions of the entitled An
provide for the better organization of the Treasury
and for the collection safe-keeping, transfer, and dis
bursement Of the public revenue" approved August
SIXTH eighteen hundred and fortysix and all acts and
parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act be
and the same hereby repealed.
Approved, February H. 1858.