Year: 1860

AN ACT confirming certain land entries under the third


section of the act Of third March, eighteen hundred and


tfyfve, entitled "An act making appropriations for the


service Of the Post Office Department during the fiscal


ending the Ihirteh of june eighteen hundred anG


tiftv-six


Be enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States If America in Congress assembled
That all entries which have heretofore been allowed by
gsers and receivers and in regard to which adverse
claims hay arisen under decisions of the Secretary u the
INTERIOR of the Commissioner Of the General Land Office
setting aside such entries under that portion of the third
prOvsO tr the first seou of act approved third March,
eighteen hundred and ffty-fve entitled IAN making
appropriations for the service the Post Office Department
during the fiscal year ending the tbirteh of June one
thousand eight hundred and 6ftysix" in the following
words THAT each contractor engaged tO be engaged
In carrying the mails through any of the Terrues west Of
the Mississippi shall have the privilege Of occupying sta
tiOnS at the rate of than fer every twenty
miles of the route which he carries mail, and shall
have redemption right therein. when the same shall be
into market the extent Of six hundred ana for
ty acres TO be taken cuntguuusy, and TO include his m
provenens but such preemptou right shall extend To
any pass IN mountain uher de6e be, and the same
are hereby confirmed subject to any bona de claim under
any law OF the United States to the whole or any portion
o the lands embraced in said entries ocatiuns made
prior subsequent te date of the selection thereof by
the persons aforesaid and the Commissioners Of the Gene
raj Land Office is hereby directed issue patent for the


lands embraced in said entries upon OF dollar
and twenty-five cents per for the land embraced IN
such patent: Provided That each contractor shall satisfy
the Secretary of the Interior that be has complied with the
and occupied stations the line of the during the
existence of his contract and that the provisions Of this
act shall be restricted to and the first bona tide set Of
pre-emptlOns on one and the same line of route.


SEC. And be it further enacted, That rights from
and after the passage of tins act shall under the
provisions of the aforesaid act of third March, eighteen
hundred and fy-fve which provisions hereby repeal
ed saving all rights heretofore acquired those provided
Tor IN the foregoing and that for the purpose of facita
ing the transportation of the public mails of the United
States west Of the Mississippi river TO the Pacific ocean,
and intermediate points, the Secretary OF the Interior be-
and he Is hereby authorized upon the application Of the
postmaster General 10 reserve mail staous for the
and occupancy Of mail contractors during the existence Of
.helr contracts quantity Of public lands not exceeding
ne area OF one section at and all such localities
his Judgment deemed necessary advisable To be tax
en- where the public surveys have been made according to
ne lines OF those surveys but where stations have been


may hereafter be designated in advance of the public
such stations shall be laid OF under the direction Of


me Postmaster General in square FORM with power to
order tne adufment hereafter Of such boundaries "
orm to the lines of the public surveys if such adjustment
oe deemed advisable which ands thus reserved stations