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 158 THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 69. 1853. . d an actenlilled “An Acttocrealc the O ce 0 Su. Feb' 14’ 18°8` CH($;eblX4iy¥the geiblgydntddmin Oregon, and lo provide fw lhe Suriggy, add zcwgsgg Donations to the Settlers of the said Public Lands," approved September lwenty-sez;engh, 1350,01,, 76, eighteen hundred and ji/ly. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all persons who have Paypneut may located or may hereafter locate lands in the Territory of Oregon, in i°{,,,°°§(}§; {K, office of Surveyor-General of the Public Lands in Oregon, and to pmcondnued qccu— vide for the Survey, and to make Donations to the Settlers of the said {;’·*·*$ ziqggd Public Lands," approved September twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and cj; gg_ ’ fifty, and of which survey shall have been made or may hereafter be had, in lieu of the term of continued occupation after settlement, as provided by said act, shall be permitted, after occupation for two years of the land so claimed, to pay into the hands of the Surveyor-General of said Territory at the rate of one dollar and twenty-tive cents per acre for the lands so claimed, located, and surveyed as aforesaid; and upon the death of any settler before the expiration of the two years’ continued possession required by this act, all the rights of the deceased under this act shall descend to the heirs at law of such settler, including the widow, where one is left, in equal parts; and proof of compliance with the conditions of this act, up to the time of the death of such settler, shall be sufficient to entitle them to the patent. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted That upon the payment of money pm". t05mm, for lands as aforesaid to the said Surveyor-General, he shall issue his certificate of such payment, together with an accurate copy of the survey of the land so located, and purchased, to the purchaser thereof, and upon the filing of which said certificate and copy of survey in the office of the Commipioner of the General Land Office, a patent shall issue therefor as in other cases. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the 1;,,,,,.,; of ,,;,,1, said Surveyor-General to keep and preserve a record of all moneys so payment-Mobs received, and to make out and transmit quarterly, to the Commissioner “"’d°· 'md “f' _ of the General Land Office, an accurate report of the moneys so received (mm mid Rd by him as aforesaid. Sec. 4. And be it jurther enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Sum, .G,m. said Survey0r·General, immediately upon the taking effect of this act, to opal0f (hg-z0¤t0 enter into security in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, conditioned for gm b°“d‘ the safe—keeping of all moneys received by him as Surveyor-General, Provisos. according to law: Provided, however, That in order to compensate the Surveyor-General of said Territory for the additional labors and responsibility imposed upon him by this act, in receiving, safe-keeping, paying me compa,- over, and accounting for the moneys aforesaid, he shall receive two per gw0H i¤°1‘<=¤S€d centum on all such sums which shall include the payment for clerk hire, OK ;‘u{’g;:;`f°g° together with all costs and expenses incidental to such special services in ments. any one year: Provided, The salary and per ccntage of said Surveyormpggganorccm. General, and for clerk hire, shall not exceed four thousand dollars for · any one year. Sec. 5. And be il further enacted, That the provisions of the act to kA;; of gfvghd which this- is an amendment be and the same are hereby extended and
 * >°¤¤ WWW accordance with the provisions of an act entitled "An act_to create the
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y- ve. I Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That every person entitled to the glveyllggiggtfggs benefit of the fourth section of the act of which this is amendatory, who Mmm in was resident in said Territory on or prior to the first of December, Oregonto the eighteen hundred and fifty, shall be and hereby is required to Hle with W, 4_ ’ ’ public surveys shall be extended over the particular land claimed by him, where those surveys shall not have been made previous to the date
 * ’§’;jg'8°*£’$Ig°* the Surveyor-General of said Territory, in advance of the time when the