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652 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 1263-1265. 1890. States, and set apart as reserved forest lands under like limitations, _ restrictions and provisions, Sections ive and six in township fourteen, south, range twenty-eight, east of Mount Diablo meridian, and also Sections thirty-one and thirty-two of township thirteen, south, hggif ¤P¤¤T mm- range twenty-eight east of the same meridian. Nothing in this act sw.' shal authorize rules or contracts touching the protection and improvement of said reservations, beyond the sums that may be received by the Secretary of the Interior under the foregoing rovisgoinsi, or authorize any charge against the Treasury of the United a es. Approved, October 1, 1890. October 1. HPO- CHAP. 1264.-An act to reconvey certain lands to the county of Ormsby, State W of Nevada. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the or-msby County, United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Ngj,"}§m.y of the I,,_ of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to re- £_ ¤> rscvnvvy convey to the county of Ormsby, in the State of Nevada, the land mmuiL¤°°¤eif£i°gl`°°d conveyed to the United States y S. C. Wright, in behalf of said county, on the ninth da of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, for the purposes of an Ihdian industrial school, in pursuance of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and for fulnlling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the year ending June vm. 25, p. ms. _ thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for other p1urposes," approved June twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eig ty-eigl1t; t e Indian Department having re 'ected said land and the county of Ormsby having conveyed other land to the United States for said 1>¤¤¢¤i>¤<>¤ school, said rejected land beingl described as follows, to wit: The northwest quarter of section ei t and the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section gve north, range twenty east, Mount Diablo base and meridian, containing two hundred acres. Approved, October 1, 1890. O°*°b°¤' L 18W CHAP. 1265.-An act to authorize the conveyance of certain Absentee Shawnee W Indian lands in Kansas. resemble Whereas the following-described tracts of land, namely: The east half of the northeast quarter, and the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter, of section twenty-nine, in township twelve, range twenty-three east; and the south half of the southwest quarter of section five, and the south half of the southwest quarter, and the north half of the southwest quarter, and the northwest quarter of section eight, in township thirteen, range twenty-two east, in Johnson County, Kansas, and known as Absentee Shawnee Indian lands, were erroneously set apart and patents therefor improperly issued to Nancy Whitestone, George Silcambus, and Lewis Hayes, Shawnee Indians, who had previously received by patent from the United Stages the quantity of lands to which they were lawfully entitled; an Tl?Vh?reas the patents so erroneously issued have not been canceled: ere ore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatéres of the absentee surmise United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary I"S,§$,‘},,*,j_‘,ij.°f.‘,gIf,{‘,'.§S,§'(€; of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to revoke and cancel ¤<>m;j;¤§Ld;®¤¤<>g; said patents, and said Secretarfy is also authorized to dispose of said E.dsmma§§°°° lands and issue patents there or to the settlers located thereon, in