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THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sues. I. Ch. 45, 46, 58, 59. `1858. 293 Cgnp. XLV.-An Act for the Relief ofPsaac Drew and other Settlers upon the Public M8! 24, 1858- Lands in the State of Wisconsin. ""`;__` Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Isaac Drew, and such other persons as may have settled, in good faith, in the State of Wisconsin, _ Scttlelrs, &<g50 since the first day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty, upon any portion :;"f:,;I,};};:;,}ng,>; of the lands that were erroneously selected by said State as 8. part of this seleetedby State, Eve hundred thousand acre grant, which selections were not confirmed, °¤*m?d *° Pm and who were at that date, or since that time have become, an actual °mPu°n` settler and housekeeper, and made improvements on any tract embraced among said erroneous selections, are hereby entitled to the same right of preemption, and upon the same terms and conditions, as are prescribed by un act entitled, "An Act to appropriate the Proceeds of the Sales of the 1841,ch. 16. Public Lands and grant Preemption Rigl1ts," approved September four- V°1- '· P- *53- teenth, [fourth,] eighteen hundred and forty-one: Provided, such lands Proviso. shall be paid for by such settlers at the minimum price. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That where persons have errone- Persons who ously entered any of the lands named in the first section of this act, and {‘;_:f,"ig;‘;'?€I$(d€”‘ shall satisfactorily show to the register and receiver that, prior to, or within an;u,{1nnmm, in three months after, the passage of this act, they have made an actual set- h¤·V¤ PWM8- tlemeut on the lands mentioned in the first section, the Commissioner of the General Land-Office is hereby authorized to issue patents therefor: Provided, That it shall be satisfactorily made to appear to him that the Proviso. entry of the tract or tracts sought to be patented does not interfere with the rights or occupancy of any actual settler. APPROVED, May 24, 1858. Can. XLVI.-An Act to prevent the inconvenient Aecumubztion in the Post—O_g7ice May 24., 1858. Department of Postmasters’ Quarterly Retums. `_°‘*‘ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster-General GPostrpa.stera_ may, trom time to tune, in his discretion, dispose of any quarterly returns pgs';?;. q’;;·1§'tm}f; of mails sent or received, preserving the accounts current, and all vouchers mm,.,,,, when accompanying such accounts, and use such portions of the proceeds thereof kept two yw-H- as may be necessary to defray the cost of separating and disposing of the same; Provided, That the accounts shall be preserved entire,at least two years. Approved, May 24, 1858. CHAP. LVIII.———An Act jbr extending the Land Laws east of die Cascade Mountains, May 29, 1953, in Oregon and Washington Territories. W s r- —· — Be it enacted by the Senate and House ¢y" Representatives ny the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the existing laws relating Existinlg land to the survey and disposal of the public lands in the Territories of Oregon dgpéfggg and Washington, west of the Cascade Mountains, be, and the same are and vvnshingtnn, hereby, extended and made applicable also to the lands lying east of said Q21st of C¤»¤<>¤d° mountains within me Tet-nicnas. * °“”““*“°· A1-1>novm:•, May 29, 1858. Cnr. LIX.—An Act to amend the “Act to incorporate the Columbia Institution for the May 29, 1858· Inshuctionls/` the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind,approved February sixteenth, eighteen hundred a jijty-seven. Ame, p_ m1_ Be it enacted by the Senate and Muse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in addition to the provision $3,000 a year, made in the above-recited act for the maintenance and tuition of pupils in fgfv§X?0¥i$Qr£; the said institution, the sum of three thousand dollars per annum, payable and incidental ` quarterly, shall be allowed, for Eve years, for the payment of salaries and °>¤P°¤S°¤· incidental expenses of said institution, and that three thousand dollars be,