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FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 168, 169,175. 1896. 117 the homestead price for such reservations, to issue a patent for such reservations to the original entryman. If the original entryman shall fail or neglect to make application for kQ¤1¤¤ i¤ <>1>¤¤ mrthe reservations within six months from the vacation of such town site, ° ` or from the passage of this Act, the reservations shall be subject to disposal under the provisions of section twenty-four hundred and fifty- R- S-. sec- 2455, p. five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the 44%ol.28, p. csv. Act approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five. Sec. 2. That if a patent has already issued, or shall hereafter issue, {’;11·}i¤_{¤¤1¤¤ vf rafor any such reservation, to any town or municipality, such town or °° an s' municipality, upon the vacation of the town site or addition thereto, as aforesaid, may sell the same at public or private sale to the highest bidder after thirty days’ public notice of such sale, and convey said lands to the purchaser by proper deed of conveyance, and cover the proceeds of such sale into the school fund of such town or municipality : Provided, That where, by reason of the vacation of an entire town site §j,•g;‘*g, isolated and all its additions, the municipal organization has ceased to exist, the mm. reservations in such vacated town site which may have been patented to the town may be disposed of as isolated tracts under the provisions of section twenty-four hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of R- S-, sw- M55. in the United States, as amended by the Act approved February twenty- "‘“{¢,,l_ 2S_ ,,_ 687· sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-tive. Sec. 3. That all laws and parts of laws, in so far as they coniiict Rewiwith this Act, are hereby repealed. Approved, May 11, 1896. CHAP. 169.-An Act To authorize and direct the Secretary of the Navy to donate Msy 11. 1896- one condemned cannon and four pyramids of condemned cannon balls to the ceme- _'_‘";"_" tery association in the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, to be used at or near the foot of the soldiers’ monument in said cemetery. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy ]§;’;*,g*;‘j,‘;*:‘•}5‘;n¤;*t';°¤· be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to donate one condemned si. rmi, um. ry' cannon and four pyramids of condemned cannon balls to the cemetery association in the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, for the purpose of placing the same at or near the monument erected to the memory of Union soldiers who are buried in the said cemetery: Provided, That in grepés: the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy such articles can be spared °° °' without detriment to the public interests: And provided further, That E‘P°”°°· the United States shall not be subjected to any expense on account of such donation. Approved, May 11, 1896. CHAP. 175.-An Act Making provision for the deportation of refugee Canadian __A{°Y 13· 18*- Cree Indians irom the State of Montana and their delivery to the Canadian authorities, He it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o/'America in Congress assembled, That there be, and is hereby, gf;;r{_¤<}i:;¤i=:¤ for appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro- deiivsrfm Canadian priated, the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be ¤¤***°¤¤°¤· necessary, the same to be immediately available, to enable the President, by employment of the Army or otherwise, to deport from the State of Montana and deliver at the international boundary line to the Canadian authorities, all refugee Canadian Cree Indians in said State. Approved, May 13, 1896.