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there be, and is hereby appropriated, to
be expended under the direction of the
Secretary of the Navy, for. the purpose
above specified, and for altering, compile
ting, and launching the frigates Santee, at
Kittery, and Sabine, at New York, the
sum of three millions ofdollars, out OF any
money in the treasury not otherwise appro-
priated.
APPROVED, April6, 1854.
CHAp.XxXIII.-AnA Act for the Benefit of cit
izens and occupants of the Town of Council
Bluffs, in Iowa.
Be it enacted by the Sehate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
Judge Of the county court, as such, for the
county Of Pottawattoinie, In the State of
Iowa, be, and he is hereby, authorized to
enter at the proper land Office, by paying
therefor, at the rate of one dollar and twen-
ty-five cents the acre, the west half of the
southwest quarter of section thirty, the west
half of the northwest quarter OF section
thirty-one, in township number seventy
five, north Of range forty-three west; the
southeast quarter and the east half of the
southwest quarter Of section twenty-five, ,and
the northeast quarter and the east half of
the northwest quarter of section thirty-six,
In township seventy-five, north OF range
forty-four west, in said State OF Iowa, IN
trust for the several use and benefit OF the
occupants thereof, according to their re-
spective interests; the execution OF which
trust, as to the disposal Of said land and the
proceeds of the sales thereof, to be conduc-
ted under such rules and regulations as are
prescribed by the Legislative assembly of
the State of Iowa in an act entitled can
act regulating the disposal of lands purchas-
ed in trust for town sites,' approved Janu-
ary twenty-five, eighteen hundred and fiji
ty-two, OF as may hereafter be prescribed
by the Legislative assembly of said State of
Iowa: Prouided, That any act of said Judge,
not in conformity to the rules and regula-
tions herein alluded to, shall be void and of
none effect: find I,rovided also, That moth
ing herein contained shall affect pre-emp-
tion OF other rights that may have accrued
under any other act of Congress.
SEC. 2. And be 1t further enacted, That
the entry contemplated in this act shall be
made within twelve months from the date
of the passage hereof, and patent shall
issue for said land as in other cases.
APPROVED, April 6, 1854.
CAHP. XXXV.-An Act to establish additional
Land Districts in the Territory of Minnesota
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That, for
the sale of the public lands to which the
Indian title has been extinguished by the
recent treaties, or which may hereafter be
extinguished within their limits In the
Minnesota Territory west of the Mississ-
ippi River, there is hereby created four ad-
ditional land districts, bounded as follows,
to wit: All that portion situated between
the northern boundary of the State Of Iowa,
and the line which divides townships ono
hundred and five and one hundred and six
Of the fifth principal meridian, and extend
ing from the Mississippi to the Big Sioux
rivers, shall comprise one of said districts,
to be called the Root River District. All
that portion laying between the township
line last mentioned, and the line dividing
townships one hundred and ten, and one
hundred and eleven, and Eetween said riv-
crs, shall constitute another of said dis
tricts, to be called the Winona District
All that portion situated north of the district
last mentioned, and south of the line which
divides townships one hundred and fifteen,
and one hundred and sixteen, and between
the rivers above mentioned, except the
townships recently surveyed west OF the
Mississippi River from the fourth principal
meridian, to include the reservation at Fort
Smelling, (the whole of which townships
shall be attached to and constitute a part of
the Minneapolis District, shall constitute
a third district to be designated the Red
Wing District; and all that portion situated
north Of the limits last described, south of
the line dividing townships one hundred
and twenty, and one hundred and twenty |
one, between the Mississippi River and the
treaty line which runs from the Big Sioux
River to Lake Travers, together with all
the fractional townships one hundred and
twenty-one situated east of the range line |
dividing ranges twenty-four and twenty |
five west, shall comprise the fourth district, |
TO be known as the Minneapolis District
And all the residuary portion of said lands
north of the line which divides
townships one hundred and twenty and one
hundred and twenty-one, and west OF range |
west of the fifth principal me-
ridian, and west of the Mississippi River,
extending to the drift-wood and the Red
River of the north, shall be, and is hereby
attached to the district of lands subject to
sale at Saak Rapids.
SEC. g And be it further enacted, 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,
a register and receiver Of the public mon
eys for each of the said new districts here
by created, who shall respectively be re-
quired TO reside at the site of their offices,
and who shall have the same powers, per-