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396 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Srss. II. Ch. 301. 1894. Wi-1°· im- and six, and Act of July thirty-lirst, eighteen hundred and seventy- six, chapter two hundred and forty-six, of volume mneteen,_page one hundred and twenty-one, of the Statutes at Large, requiring “ that before any lands granted to any railroad company shall be conveyed to such company or any persons entitled thereto under any of the Acts incorporating or relating to said company, unless said company is excepted by law from the payment of such cost, there shall first be paid into the Treasury of the United States the cost of surveying,_selecting, and conveying the same, by the said company or persons m interest": F1¤ri·1¤¤¤•=1¤¤~1- Provided, That no part of the foregoing moneys shall be used for any land embraced in any grant to the State of Florida. hs],"',;! °* 1******* For survey of private land claims in the States of Colorada, Nevada, ° ° ""' and Wyoming, and in the Territories of Arizona, New Mexico, and Vol.5,p.854. Utah, confirmed under the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to establish a court of private land claims, and to provide for , the settlement of private land claims, in certain States and Territories," approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the resurvey of such private land claims heretofore confirmed as may be deemed necessary, twenty thousand dollars. Surrey of <=¤r¢•i¤ Fora proper survey of thirty-two thousand acres of land, more or {L': "‘ N"'"‘ C""` less, in southwestern part of North Carolina, conveyed to the United P,,,,,,,,,,,_ States in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine in compromise of an indebtedness due to the United States from E. B. Olmsted, formerly disbursing clerk of the Post-Office Department, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Boupdary between For the retracement of so much of the boundary line between the KH·{,*§‘j_‘*'k“"" States of Louisiana and Arkansas and of the boundary line between said States and the State of Texas, and the lines of public land surveys _ closing thereon, as will enable the surveyor-general of Louisiana to construct a proper plat of certain lands in township twenty-three north, range sixteen west, in the State of Louisiana, over which, owing to discrepancies in existing surveys, neither Arkansas nor Louisiana now claims jurisdiction, and to enable the United States land officers to admit entries of said lands, ive hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary lor the purpose. Atlnaswi mmmy For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale, and pay ot ”"°"‘"°"" custodians of abandoned military reservations transferred to the conv»1.zz,p.ws. trol of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July fitth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, including a custodian of the ruin of Casa Grande, five thousand dollars. h}',;:;::; www For the purpose of making a resurvey of the lands of Grant and ' Hooker Counties in the State of Nebraska, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, the sum of sixteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid out of the appropriation for surveys of public lands made by this Act. rm-u¤;.i¢.,ws¤¤. Pour ANGELES Town-srrn, Wasmncronz That suburban blocks ,,§,f‘;‘,*;§yf““‘°“’°' numbered eightyseven, eighty-eight, eighty-nine, ninety, ninety-one, ninety-two, ninetythree, and ninety-four, within the limits of the Gov- · ernment.town·site reserve of Port Angeles, in the State of Washington, shall be, and are each hereby, granted and confirmed to the town or city of Port Angeles, Washington, for use as a burial ground or cemetery; and upon application therefor by the proper municipal authorities of said town or city to the Secretary of the Interior, patent shall be issued for said blocks, respectively, to said authorities and for the purpose herein expressed. ,83;: ,{)¢vg;¤¤¤ River Das Momns Rivnn Lmzns snrrnnusz To adjust the claims of Commissioner to settlers on the socalled Des Moines River lands, in the State of Iowa f_‘§g§;,,:f*’·· °‘*”¤¤ "* two hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended by the Secretary of the Interior, in the following man: ner: The Secretary of the Interior shall appoint a special commissioner to investigate, hear, and determine the claims of all settlers, their heirs .