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THIRTY—SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 129, 130. 1862. 503 prescribed for that offence, shall be deprived of his office and rendered Penalty. gteapable forever after of holding any office or place under the United tutes. Approved, July 2, 1862. Gun. CXXIX. —An Act to establish a Land Dismd in the Territory ty` Nevada, and Jul? 2» 1862- for other Purposes. """L___° Be it enacted dy the Senate and House of Rep·rescntat{vc£ of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the public lands of the Land district United States in the Territory of Nevada shall constitute a land district, ;Zf,F§""‘d“ °°*“l" to be called the District of Nevada, the office for which shall be estab- is 6 ` lished at such place within said district as the President of the United States may from time to time direct, and the preemption laws are hereby extended to said Territory. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President be, and he is R€gl¤*¤¤‘=¤¤<i hereby, authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the :°°°;}:;,§° b° Senate, a register and receiver for said district, who shall be required to Pp l reside .at the site of said office, and who shall have the same powers and perform the same duties as are now or may hereafter be prescribed by law for other land officers, and whose compensation shall be the same as allowed to such officers by the act approved April twenty, eighteen hun- 1818, ch 123. dred and eighteen, entitled "An act for changing the compensation of V0!-mv-466- receivers and registers of the land offices." Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That when the settlers in any town- serum in ship or townships, not mineral or reserved by government, shall desire a *¤}*¤¤h;P¤ **0* survey made of the same under the authority of the Surveyor-General n2;;,-°,;av° of the United States, and shall iile an application therefor in writing, and surveys made, deposit in a proper United States depository to the credit of the United &°· States a sum sufficient to pay for such survey, together with all expenses incident thereto, without cost or claim for indemnity on the United States, it shall and may be lawful for said Surveyor-General, under such instructions as may be given him by the Commissioner of the General Tami Office, and in accordance with existing laws and instructions, to survey such township or townships, and make return thereof to the general and proper local land office: Provided, That the townships so proposed to be proviso, surveyed are within the range of the regular progress of the public surveys embraced by existing standard lines or bases for the township and sub-divisional surveys. APPROVED, July 2, 1862. Cnr. CXXX. —An Act donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories July 2, 1862. which may provide Colkgzs for the Benefit of Agricullure and the Mechanic Arts. wt"'; Be it enacted by the Senate and Emo of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be granted to the rustic1am, several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of pub- {’)g*g‘x2§‘::·e;h lic land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thou- sms, sand acres for each senator and representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of eighteen hundred and sixty: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions of this act. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the land aforesaid, after being _Hc»w apporsurveyed, shall be apportioned to the several States in sections or subdi- **°¤°d· visions of sections, not less than one quarter of a section; and whenever To bg selected there are public lands in a State subject to sale at private entry at one ffoilltghxi zlib dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the quantity to which said State Jigvatc entry, shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands within the limits of such as any. State, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to issue to each