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FORTYFOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 305, 306, 307. 1876. 207 Whereas said arms were used by Government officials in maintaining the authority of the United States and were never turned over to the State of Kansas: Therefore, Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America. in Congress assembled, That the Chief of the Ordnance Ka,,,,,,,,, to bg Bureau of the War Department be, and he is hereby, directed to cause credited for certain the State of Kansas to be credited on its ordnance-account with the °’d“*‘¤°°·“°'°¤· amounts now charged against it for arms and ordnance stores issued to the_Territory of Kansas upon the return to the United States by the State of Kansas, of all such arms and other ordnance-stores as may have come into its possession as the successor of said Territory. Approved, August 15, 1876. CHAP. 306.-An act to amend an act entitled "An act authorizing the repavement A¤g· 15, 1876 . of Pennsylvania Avenue" **7; Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 0_/`America in Congress assembled, That that part of section tive of an act entitled “An act authorizing the repavement of Pennsylvania ¢§"**·P·f’?· Avenue " approved July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventysix, 10* P‘“3· which reads as iollows: *‘Pr0védcd That said pavement shall be iully P=*"¤*¤<?¤* ef completed and ready for use December lirst eighteen hundred and sev- 5sf;"S§m:]“";O“‘,; enty-six " be, and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: c(,u,’,,],,md_ “Pwwided, 1 hat the said pavement shall be fully completed and ready for use January fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven." Approved, August 15, 1876. CHAP. 307.-—An act to create an additional land office at Colfax, Whitman County, Aim; 15, 1876. Washington Territory. "_"""1‘ Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United d,I;m’;f;*£t;3“d° States be, and he is hereby, authorized to establish an additional land-dis' trict in the Territory of Washington, which district shall be bounded as iollows, namely : commencing at a point where the Columbia guide- Boundaries. meridian intersects the third standard parallel in said Territory; thence east along the line of said standard parallel to where the same intersects Snake River; thence along said Snake River to where the same inter— sects the boundary-line between Washington Territory and Idaho Territory; thence north on said boundary-line to where the same intersects the boundary-line between Washington Territory and British U0lu“mbi"a; thence west along said line to where the same intersects the aforeinenl tioned Columbia guide-meridian; thence south along the line of said meridian to the place of beginning. Said district, as above bounded, shall be known and designated as the Wliitinan district, and the olfhce Name of district. of said district shall be located at the town of Colfax, or at such place Location of ori as the President may direct, in the Territory of Washington; and the Bw President of the United States shall have power to change the loca— tion of said land-office, in said Territory, from time to time, as the public interests may seem to require. Sec. 2. That the President is hereby authorized to appoint, by and Register and ie with the advice and consent of the Senate, or during the recess thereof, ¤<=i_v·>¤‘ to be ¤i>- a register and a receiver lor the district hereby created, who shall each P°‘“t°‘1· reside in the place where said land-office is located, and shall have the ~ same powers, responsibilities, and einolurnents, and be subject to the P"“'°"·““" same acts and penalties, which are or may be prescribed by law in relation to other landolticers in said Territory. Sec. 3. That the public lands in said district shall be subject to sale I‘·¤l>li¤ lends in, and disposal upon the same terms and conditions as other public lands t?, W ““*¤*“°“ ‘° of the United States: Provided, That all sales and locations made at B°`;,(,,.,,,0_ the office of the old district of land situated within the limits of the new