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PUBLIC ACTS OF THE FCRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS or ms UNITED STATES, _Passed at the third session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the sixth day of December, 1880, and was adjourned without day on Friday, thefowrth day of March, 1881. RUTHERFOBD B. HAYES, President: WILLIAM A. WHEELER, Vice-President, and President of the Senate. ALLEN G. THURMAN was elected President of the Senate pro tcmpore on the seventh of April, 1880. He was again chosen on the sixth day of May, 1880. SAMUEL J. RANDALL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAP. 1.-An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to dispose of a part of Dec. 15, 1880. the Fort Dodge military reservation to actual settlers under the provisions of the —-·————-——--——-- homestead laws, and for other purposes. l Whereas, that portion of the Fort Dodge military reservation herein- Portion _ of Fort after described is no longer needed for military purposes: Therefore, DOW? 1**1}* WIQY Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United ffuzg ‘;;f,;Q;Qi States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the to agtual mtu8H_ Secretary of the Interior to cause all that portion of the Fort Dodge military reservation, in the State of Kansas, being and lying north of land owned and occupied by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company for right of way for its railroad; and to cause the same to be surveyed, sectionized, and subdivided as other public lands, and after said survey to oder said lands to actual settlers only, under and in accordance with the homestead laws of the United States: Pro/vided, Praviso. That the said Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company shall have the right to purchase such portion of said reservation as it may need for its use adjoining that now owned by it, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, by payiugtherefor the price at which the same may be appraised under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. Approved, December 15, 1880. CHAP. 2.-An act to amend section twenty-two hundred and thirty-eight of the Re- Dec. 17, 1880. vised Statutes in relation to fees for iinal certificates in donation cases. -·······—···· Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sixth paragraph of E. s. 2238 amendsection twenty-two hundred and thirty-eight of the Revised Statutes of 0d- - the United States bc, and the same is hereby, repealed, and that in lieu thereof the following paragraph be substituted: "A fee in donation cases of two dollars and nfty cents for each dual _Fe¤sfor1=m<1ccrocrtificate for one hundred and sixty acres of land, five dollars for three **H°““"’· hundred and twenty acres, and seven dollar·s and fifty cents for six hundred and forty acres." Approved, December 17, 1880. CHAP. 4.-An act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to change the name of Dec. 23, 1880. the yacht “Stephen D. Barnes" of Philade phia. ·-··—""""""" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United y,,,],, rc $,,,,,1,6,, States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- D. rmuesw 311