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SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 267, 268, 270. 1916. 435 tion by reason of recent Hoods in the States of North Carolina., South Carolma, AGeorg1a, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, and Mississippi; and the Secretary of War under such regulations as he may prescribe is authorized to expend so much of the aforesaid sum as he may deem necessary in supplying such seeds as may be suitable to produce quick growing crops to provide food for the population and animals of the Hood areas; and to supply the destitute with some form of employment at a moderate rate of (pay, said employment to be under the supervision of Armvy officers an in cooperation with local officials; and the Secretary of ar is also authorized to finnish such sup lies ism of Army mpof the Quartermaster and Medical De artments as he may deem pim proper, to those who are destitute and) unable to work, but for a period not exceeding mnety days from the passage of this resolution. Approved, August 3, 1916. c11A1>.2es.-Aa Act Anim-sr are sem or me rumior su was ’*“"“**»“'“* part of the town site of Plummer, Idldgho, and for citallbvr purposes. to hdl a Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re esentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Tgat the Secretary of the gwggigdwm Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be mee. subdivided that art of the town site of Plummer, Coeur d’Alene Reservation, Id¤ll)o (which town site was created imder the Act of Vol- 3% 1*-337- June twenty-one, nineteen hundred and six; Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, pages three hundred and twent —five and three hundred and thirty-seven), described as the southeast quarter of section . eighteen, township fortiy-six north, range four west, into streets or roads and into tracts o not exceeding ve acres each, and to cause s¤1•¤:¤¤¤¤. the tracts to be appraised, except such as are hereinafter reserved for the town of Plummer, and sold at not less than their appraised value. Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior is also authorized and ,,,,,I"f‘,“€,’,,,,,‘{T,'Q°,$,'1,,_°° directed to cause a patent to be issued to the town of Plummer for five acres of land so subdivided for the purpose of a reservoir sito for the Plummer water·works system, described as tho east half of the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section eighteen, township forty-six north, range four west, as well as ten acres of the land so subdivided for the purpose of a public park, described as the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter o the sgutheast quarter of section eighteen, same township and range as a ove. _ Sec. 3. That the urchase price of the tracts authorized to be sold P¤Y¤¤¤¤· Shall be paid at sucl)1 times and in such installments and upon such b baud terms as the said Secretary may direct, and he shall cause twenty ,,,g§°‘°'*T° "° ' per centum of the net proceeds arising from said sale to be set apart and expended under his direction in the construction of schoolhouses or other public buildings or improvements within said town site. Approved, August 4, 1916. August 7,1916. CHAP. 270.-An Act For the establishment of Noyes. in the_ State of Minnesota, [5-5645-l as a port of entry and delivery for immediate transportation without appraisement [Public, Nm 1734 of dutiable merchandise. Be it enacted by the Senate and House q'R,1e;f1jiresentatives of the United V States of America in Congress assembled, at the pr1v1leges_ of the §§’§,$§,;dm”,,f,’;,,,d,,,, first and seventh sections of the Act approved June tenth, eighteen {¤¤¤¤<>¤¤¤¤¤ vivihundred and eighty, governing the immediate transportation of Wd 21, pp. 173,174. dutiable merchandise without apkpraisement be, and are hereby, extended to the port of Noyes, in e State of Minnesota. Approved, August 7, 1916.