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FIFTY-N INT1-I CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 1634-1636. 1906. 121 Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company defined by the Acts of Congress dated, respectively, March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven (Eleventh Statutes, page one hundred and ninety-tive, V0!-11.p-195 chapter ninety-nine), and March third, eighteen hundred and sixty- five (Thirteenth Statutes, page five hundred and twenty-six, chap- V°l·1“·P·m ter one hundred and five), which by reason of certain contracts between Reverend John Ireland and the Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway-Company, one dated July seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and one dated March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three (more particularly described in the decision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office contained in his letter of February third, eighteen hundred and ninety- eight, in the appeal of the case of John Ireland against Joseph Bennon and others from the action of the local land office and at Saint Cloud, Minnesota), the said John Ireland and those with whom he contracted to sell certain of said lands, either for himself or for said railway company, were held authorized to purchase from the United States under the provision of section five of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven (Twenty-fourth Statutes, page five hundred V°l·“· 1*-55** and fifty-six), after the date upon which the claim of said railway com- ` pany to receive said lands as indemnity lands had been denied and canceled by the Interior Department: Provided, That no such person mma. _ Shall be entitled to the benents of this Act who shaH fail to make m°°“"‘"” entry within two years after the passage thereof: Andp1·0vided_further, l*°’“'l°“°"· That this Act shall not be considered as entitling any person to make another homestead entry who shall have received the benefits of the homestead law since being prevented, as aforesaid, from completing title to the lands so settled upon and improved by him. Approved, April 17, 1906. . 163 .— a rtain nal ro fs in the hamberlain land A 11117 1906- d S0¤th gakorén Act To pprove ce ii p o C R. mm _ _ [Public, Ne. im.) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reqresentatwee of tbe United States of America in Cbngress assembled, That all homestead final §“h},’}},‘{_f,'{,ff,'f; had proofs for lands in the Chamberlain land district in South Dakotabuiade disglrgis- Imgimoul before the judge or clerk of the court of Stanley County, or any mted g,,,;-,,,.,,,; ,,,,,4,,, M,. States court commissioner at Fort Pierre, South Dakota, prior to the °°P*°"· passage of this Act, shall be accepted and patented the same as if such _ roofs were made within the said Chamber ain land district: 1 ’rovided, ,’.T{,‘{',{,”';m, ,,0, M_ That this Act shall not aliect any final proof except only in respect to fwwd. ew. the place where same was made. Approved, April 17, 1906. CHAP. 1836.-An Act To create a new division of the southern judicial district Agri! 13, 1906- of Texas, and to provide terms of court at Victoria, and for other purposes. [Public, ns. ins.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofR@I'€86h¢dt?>U88 oft/ae United States of America in (bn ress assembled, That the counties of Bee, d,'§,j’{“,;‘,S§‘;.}$’f°'“ l“‘ Calhoun, Dewitt, Goliad, gackson, Live Oak, Refugio, Aransas, San tlgsw div1¤i<>¤ crc- Patricio, and Victoria shall constitute a division of the southern judicial ° nfs., See. ua, p. sz. · _· _ Vol.32,p.66,amendd1st11ct of Texas. ,,d_ Sec. 2. That terms of the circuit and district courts of the United '1`¤1’1¤¤¤t Vicwris States for the southern district of Texas shall be held twice in each year at the city of Victoria, in Victoria County, and that, until otherwise provided by law, the judges of said courts shall fix the times at