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FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. CHS. 132-134. 1895. 687 of the District of Columbia. are paid: Provided, That the persons PMM- named in the first section shall not deliver the body of the deceased, ,,h}’,‘{“Y. tg '°° k°P" as provided in this Act, until at least th irty-six hours shall have elapsed yhm 0m` since the death of said deceased and giving of said notice or thepublication of the same. Sec. 3. That every person who shall have been duly authorized by f C°U¤g¤*¤siv¤b¤¤¢i the faculty of any medical college in the District of Columbia to receive M °°°' °t°" °f b°dy‘ such dead bodies shall, before so receiving them, give to the health officer of said District a bond in the sum of two hundred dollars, with surety satisfactory to said health officer, and conditioned that each dead body shall be used only for the promotion off anatomical and surgical knowledge within the said District of Columbia, and that after _ having been so used the remains thereof shall be decently buried; and m£'},§‘,§b'lf‘§,§Y,,f°},§,’§, whosoever shall use such body or bodies for any purpose other than ¤¤·"¤•· ¤*¤· that aibresaid, or shall remove the same beyond the limits of the District of Columbia, and whosoever shall sell or buy such body or bodies, or in any way traffic in the same, or who shall disturb or remove bodies from graves in which they have been buried, or who shall disregard the expressed wishes of the deceased, or of his or her friends, where such wishes may be disclosed, as provided for in section one of this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction, be imprisoned for a term not less than two nor more than three years, at hard labor, in the jail of said District. Approved, February 26, 1895. CHAP. 133.-——An Act To amend section twenty-four hundred and f:ifty-five of the Y¢l¤'¤¤1'§’ 26. 1895- Revised Statutes of the United States. ‘;—;' Be it enacted by the Senate.and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section twenty-four hun- £‘}‘g*° {:;***;,55 dred and nity-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and 449. miénneé.p` the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: _ _ "S1:c. 2455. It shall be lawful for the.Commissioner of the General ,,E,§‘§§f‘ °‘ '°°’“‘°“ Land Office to order into market and sell for not less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre any isolated or disconnected tract or parcel of the public domain less than one quarter section which in his judgment it would be proper to expose to sale after at least thirty days’ notice by the land officers of the district in which such lands may Promo be situated: Provided, That lands shall not become so isolated or dis— To t.».»{»§¤m1mm¤» connected until the same have been subject to homestead entry for a gfjfg °”°’-V *¤*°° period of three years after the surrounding land has been entered, filed _ upon, or sold by the Government: Provided, That not more than one L"“"· hundred and sixty acres shall be sold to any one person." Approved, February 26, 1895. CHAP. 134.-An Act To authorize the adoption of children in the District of F°l"'“"Y 2“· 1895 Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ _ States of America in Congress assembled, That jurisdiction is hereby con— b,f'*’*"°” °' C°‘¤¤*· ferred on any judge of the supreme court of the District of Columbia .m0pm¤_ of an to bear and determine any petition that may be presented by a person d"" "*““‘°“""· or a husband and wife residing in the District of Columbia, praying the privilege of adopting any minor child as his or her or their own _ child, and make such minor child an heir at law. If the judge shall P'°°°°d*¤¤· find, upon the hearing of such petitioner, that the petitioner is a proper person to have custody of such child, and that the parent or parents or guardian of such child have given their permission for such adoption,