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\ 74 FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C11. 165,166,167,168. 1876. P11l>11¤ lands lu by this act, shall be offered at public sale, as soon as practicable from Q;“£$$‘“°• °t°·> t° time to time, and according to the provisions of existing law, and shall `not be subject to private entry until they are so offered. ‘ SAMUEL S. COX. Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tempore. T. W. FERRY President of the Senate pro-tempore Received by the President June 22, 1876. [Norm BY rmt DEPARTMENT or Strawn.-The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] 7 Jill! 5, 1g7G- CHAP. 166.--An act to extend the time for filing claims for additional bounty under ‘*`"""""—‘ the act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, which expired, by limitation, ou January thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, until July first, _, eighteen hundred and eighty. T_ f _ M Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United C]ui;;° fo? mfgf States of America in Congress assembled, That the time for tiling claims m,,,,,; b.,,,,,,,, OX- lor additional bounty under the act of July twentyeighth, eighteen huntended. dred and sixty-six, and which expired by limitation on the thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-tive, be, and the same is 1866, cli.296, hereby, revived and extended until the first day of July, eighteen U$¤11>·»322· hundred and eighty; and that all claims for such bounty died in the proper department after the thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventyhve, and before the passage of this act, shall be, and the same are hereby declared to have been, died in due time, and shall be considered and decided without reliling. Approved, July 5, 1876. July 5, 1876. CHAP. 167.-An act to amend section twelve hundred and twenty-five of the Revised —······-····— Statutes of the United States. ‘ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the, United R· S·»i22?r11·215. States of America in Congress assembled, That section twelve hundred . ““‘°“d°d· and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States be so amended as to read, "But the number of officers so detailed shall not exceed thirty at any time," instead of twenty, as in said section provided. Approvcd, July 5, 1876. July 5, 1876. CHAP. 168.-An act providinig for the sale of the Kansas Indian lands in Kansas to —-———————-—-———— actual settlers, and or the disposition of the proceeds of the sale. ` Preamble. Whereas, the Secretary of the Interior, in pursuance of an act approved May eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, · has caused to be 1872_(,h_ 14], ” appraised the lands heretotore owned by the Kansas tribe of Indians, 17 semen. in the State of Kansas, which by the termsof the treaty made by the United States and said Indians, and proclaimed November seventeenth, 12 gw_, 11 M_ eighteen hundred and sixty, were to be sold for the benefit of said Indians ;· which appraisement also includes all improvements on the same, and the value of said im provements; distinguishing between improvements made by members of said Indian tribe, the United States, and white settlers ; and ° Whereas the appraisenicnt thus made was so high that neither set·