Kansas weekly herald., 1854-10-20

acres of land In, legal subdivisions, and shall I
certify the same to the Secretary of the In
terror, who shall, forthwith, on receipt of said
certificate, issue, to the State of Indiana, /
patents for said lands: Provided, The pro-
ceeds of said lands, when sold, shall be, |
and forever remain, a fund for the use of the |
Indiana University.
ApPRovED, February %, 1854.
CHAP. XIII.-An Act to Extend the Limits of
the Port of New Orleans.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
port of New Orleans be so extended as to
embrace the right bank of the Mississippi
river, for the same distance up said bank as
it now extends on the left bank.
APPROVED, February %, 1854.
CHAP. XIV.-An Act supplemental to an Act
entitled Gan Act to ascertain and settle the
Private Land claims in the State Of Califor-
nia,o approved March third, one thousand
eight hundred and ifty-one.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives eff the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
following named persons, viz: Henry c.
Boggs, L w Hardman, Wiley Sneed, Ste
phen Broadhurst, Smith and Kristen, Geo.
H. Woodman, Berthald and Lorrin, Fish
er and Guildfildt, and William Clarke, ,1or
either of them, or their representatives,
may, within six months after the passage of
this act, present their claims to the commits
sioners who were appointed under the pro-
visions of the act to which this is a supple
ment; and the said commissioners are here
by empowered to hear and dispose of the
same as efectually as though the said claims
had been presented in due time, under the
thirteenth section of the aforesaid act.
| Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That
the persons named in this act shall be linn
tied and confined, in their claims, to pur-
chases made of Don Salvador Veligo,
Mexican grantee, for part of the place
known as "Entre Napa," and situate in
Napa county, State of California. And the
said commissioners shall be satisfied that
the said persons named derived title to their
respective claims previous to the third day
of March, one thousand eight hundred and
ity-three.
Sec 8. And be it further enacted, That
the said persons named shall be entitled to
no privilege not conferred on claimants un-
der the original act, but as to an extension
of time in which their claims may be re-
spectively made to the said commissioners.
| APrRovED, February %, 1854.
CHAP. xvH.-An Act for the Extension of the
Presumption Privilege in the State of Califor-
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives Of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
provisions of the act of the fourth of Septem-
Der, eighteen hundred and forty-one, grant
ing Pre-emption rights to settlers ON the
public lands, as modified and made applica-
bic to the State of California by the act of
the third of March, eighteen hundred and
fifty-three,. shall be further modified by ex-
tending the provisions of the third rroyiso
in the sixth section of the aforesaid act of
the third Of March, eighteen hundred and
fifty-three, to settlements made prior to and
within two years after the passage ofthis act.
!, APpRovED, March l, 1854. iadt
CHAP. XXIV.-An Act for the Relief Of the
United States Troops who were Sufferers by
the recent Disaster to the Steamship San
Francisco.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America In Congress assembled, That there
shall be paid, under the direction of the
President, to each of the officers, non-com-
missioned officers, musicians, and privates,
who, on the twenty first day of December,
: eighteen hundred and fifty three, embark
ed at New York, under orders for Califof-
MIA, on the steamship San Francisco, and
who was on board that vessel GA the oeca-
sion of her recent disaster at sea, and to
Lieutenant Francis Key Murray, and 9th:
5 rsoffieer or seaman of the United States
5 ravy,- who was on board the said steamship
under orders, sum equal In amount to his
pay and allowances for eight months. =
4 SEC. 2. And be If further enacted, That
q if any such officer, on-commissioned officer
musician, or private, shall have died before
: receiving such payment, from any cause
: consequent upon said disaster, his widow if
one survive him, and if not, then his minor
children, if any there be, shall be paid a
sum equal In amount to six month pay
and allowances Of the deceased. And that
the widows and minor children. of those
!, officers, n-eommissioned officers, and pri-
: Yates, who perished by this disaster, OF who
died from disease In consequence thereof,
shall be allowed pensions In the same
manner in all respects as if the said officers,
lnon-commissioned officers, and privates had
t been killed In battle. 8 ss.sss7 .5ss S
RI. APPRovED, March %, 1891. r..e