The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-21
OFFICIAL.

I OFFICIAL.
~i- III ,sr. sYeept the United States, Or, being out
81 Is as against all Others except az aforesaid
entitled to the possession Of any 0. e tract Oh
$3.50 a. sba lands of the ex-mssion of San jose as in
cIndsd q, the man and survey thereof made October
eighteen hundred and as bsr " n n deputy
bsreby granted each and every such person. to enter
and purchase of the United States at the price
one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. such portion Of
aid tract so rightully possessed by him. her Them
to which he she or they may have such right pos
session. whether such person claim the by convey
from under Andres pico and Juan B. Ayarado
either of them, or by possession only Pocded however
That any person entitled under this to parcel
than eight acres shall in all such pay ten dollars fol
| the same
SEC. g. And be it further enacted That every person
claiming any benefit under this shall within yeai
nom the passage thereof present to the register and re
survey plat of the portion of said tract claimed by
him. her or them, and which shall exhibit the quarter
section sections parts thereof included in said plat
made by under the direction Of the United States sur
veyor general for California and Herewith written
statement setting forth the right Of such claimant to en-
ter and purchase such portion under the provisions
this act and whether tile said claimant has acquired the
alleged title Of said Pco and Avarado or either OF them
thereto holds by possession only and tereupon sue
register and receiver SHALL under such rules as may be
prescribed by the commissioner Of the general land once
proceed and take hear and inc the evidence which
u tbs nroa bsne bs upon and
decide the Popded That no decision OF SAID re-
gster ard receiver shall be final until approved oy 'he
| commissioner Of the general land0fhce
SIC g. And b, "a further enacted That the claimant
in whose favor final decision has been made upon paying
to the receiver of the landoce At san francisco lor
prescribed in the first section Of this act shall be entitled
patent such land from the United States, convey
ing all the interest Of the United States therein to such
| claimant
SEC. l. And be It further enacted, That upon all pro-
ceedngs under THIS act being closed and upon the ap-
peal taken to the supreme Court of the United States by
H. L. Beard and Others claimants Of said lands against
the United States being dismissed the decree appealed
rom arped the surveyor ofhe United states Oi
California shall the lines of the public surveys to be
all portions said shall not have
disposed Of under the and thereafter
the same shall be disposed of as in the case Of
| lie lands.
Approved March3 1865. ....
An ACT to enable the accounting Ocers OF the treas
ury to settle the Claim of the State OF Kansas
Be il enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives Of the United States Of 1mer7ca IN Congress as
sembled That the proper accounting Oeers o. .ne ea
Diary evidence lieu Of the original vouchers In support
of claim for expenses incurred by the State Kansas
provision for reimbursement of which made by the
Act to indemnify the States for expenses incurred by
them in defence Of the United States, approved July
twenfyseven, eighteen hundred and sixty one said orig
nal vouchers having been destroyed by fire at the late
massacre In Lawrence Kansas: PT0rided That in the
settlement of the above mentonedsolaim, there shall
not be allowed to the State of Kansas sum exceeding
the sum Of twelve thousand three hundred ffty.one
dollars and four cents Q2,S5l.0a)
Approved March 8, 1865
An ACT to extond tho Provisions of the first Section
IAN Act for the Government of Persons In certain Fish
cries." approved Juno Nineteenth eighteen hundred
and thirteen. r 4,f
Bet enacted by the Senate and House Of Representa-
ues of the Uiled States of America in Congress as
sebed That the provisions OF the first section of At
et for the Of persons in certain fisheries
approved on the nineteenth of June, in the year one
thousand eight hundred and thirteen shall extend
apply to the master or skipper and seamen Of vessels
the burthen Of twenty tons upwards, qualified &C
cording to law for carrying the mackerel fisheries
boundfrom port in the United States TO be employed ii
uch fisheries in the way as If such ifs cries ha
been embraced in said acts Froeded That the agree
ngn named in said section shall DO duly made, sndorse
| and countersigned
Approved, March 8, 1865.
AN ACT to incorporate the Colored Union Benevolcr
II E4 Association. .s
it enacted by the Senate and Hoase Of Representative
ofhe United Saies of america in Congress assnblet
| That Gurden snowden Charles Brown, James Wright
BrooIs John Shorter Joseph Shorter and their assocl
tes successors and they hereby, CONSTITUTED
and declared to be body polite and corporate by thu
name and title Of the Coored Union Benevolent Assoca
ton, located in the city Of Washington, and by its copo
rate said association shall have perpetual succession
with power sus and be sued to implead and be i'm
pleaded, in any court Of the United States Of thu
District of Columbia of competent iur diction to re
csive subscriptions gifts and benefits and to make sac
pedent for the government Of the association, and
alter the same from time to time in such mode as shall
he prescribed therein: Provided, drdys That such rule
and by laws SHALL be in nowise inconsistent with IN
constitution and laws Of the United States OF with IN
objects OF the association The objects OF the assooia
ton are hereby declared TO be TO provide or the care an
comfort OF such members as snail be SICK, disabled
dependent and OF the families OF such members IN cas-
where the proper officers OF the association shall deem
expeden and also to provide for the decent intermen
Of such persons may die in membership of the associ
alton Or belonging to the families of such members
SEC. And be further enacted That said association
shall have power to hold real personal and nike
estate, by purchase gift, or devise Tor the purpose
Of such association and no other, ana to lease SELL o.
convey such real estate or mixed estate, or persona
property may be devised or donated to such assoea
ton, and the leasing or sale Of which will promote thu
interests of said association.
SEC. g. And De further enacted, That congress shai
have the right at any time, to modify amend or repea
| this act NJ 5f-t.F rEt-H-
l Approved, March3 1855.
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An ACT to amend an Act entitled "An Act to incorpo
rate the Metropolitan Railroad Company in the Distrc
Belt enacted bv the Senate and House of REPRESENTATIVES.
Of the United States of America in CONGRESS assembled
That an act entitled xn act to ncornorate the Metro
poltan Railroad Company in the District of Colu,nbia
approved July first eighteen hundred and sxy-four
and the same hereby is amended as set forth
namely that the first section be- and hereby is amended
by striking out all after the words along street nort
Seventeenth street west ntersectng the double
road" and inserting: also double or single track rail
way commencing at the intersection of d street nort
and Fouranda-half street west along -Four. hal
street west to the gate of the arsenal also double
single track branch railway commencing at the inter