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 306 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 85. 1854. Land granted Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, Thatin any case where orphans ¢¤¤rph¤¤¤;¤f*·;¥¤¤¤·= have been, or may be, left in either of the said Territories, whose params, ff;°‘Q,*§;M IQ" 0;- either of them, if living, would have been entitled to a donation umm entitled to a do- this act, or either of those of which it is amendatory, said orphans shall bc ¤*°i°¤· entitled to a quarter-section of land on duc proof being made to the satis. or ini:2i:::;,?""s:::;E.f:i?k::2é?&:2: :£:$€s$$:;;i;¥:.:,§,zc:;w · . - eneral in good agricultural land, not reserved, or otherwise appropriated, How vested in under any law of Congress ; and, in C88B of the death of either or any of case ofdonth. said orphans, after their lands shall have been designated by the Sup. veyor·General, the right or rights of the deceased shall vest in the survivor or survivors. This not m be Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all the provisions of this act, fgggfgdogm and the acts of which it is amendatory, shall be extended to all the lands and washington in Oregon and Washington Territories ; and, for the purpose of carrying Territories said acts into effect in said Territories, the President shall be, and he is Bcljeglstzusd hereby, authorized to appoint a Register and Receiver for each of said Tm-. uppgigggd; ,1:6,, ritorics, whose powers, duties, obligations, and responsibilities, shall be the duties, powers, same as are now prescribed by law for other land officers and for the Sur- Qi‘£_°°“‘P°“s“' veyor- General of Oregon, so far as they apply to such officcrs. They shall keep their offices at such place as the President shall, from time to time, direct ; and their compensation shall be twenty-Eve hundred dollars each, per annum and office rent ; but they shall be entitled to no fees or other emoluments of any kind whatsoever, except the Reccive1·’s actual and necessary expenses in depositing; and, on satisfactory proof that either of said officers, or any other officer, has charged or received fees or ogincr rewards not authorized by law, he shall be forthwith removed from o co. T W5¤··hi¤zt¤:¤i Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Territory of Washington a::,r;€°:};uY;udQ_ shall be erected into a separate surveying district, and the President of trict. the United States is hereby authorized to appoint a. Surveyor-General nm_?;’f_'*;1{)°`:“(*;: for the same, who shall hold his office at such place as the President ,,0,,,,,,,;, hi, may direct, and the location thereof may be changed from time to time, powers, duties, if, in the judgment of the President, the public interest should require 'md f°°’· it, and the powers, duties, obligations, responsibilities, and emoluments of the said Survcyor—General shall be the same as are now prescribed by law for the Surveyor-General of Oregon. APPROVED, July 17, 1854. Jul? 17, 185*- CHAP. LXXXV.—-An act making further Appropriations jbr continuing the Construction ¢%fz£’e¤ld s l:n};c;lcTm€wry of Minnesota, in accordance with the Estimates made by the _ _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United fO*:¥g*;3.l“`”’·“°” States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums of ' money bc, and they are hereby appropriated for continuing the construction of roads in the Territory of Minnesota, to wit: For the continuation of the road from Point Douglas, on the Missisnppi River, to thehmouthdog {ho St. Louis River, of Lake Superior, in iseonsin, twenty thousand o lars ; I For the continuation of the road from Point Douglas to Fort Gaines, now Fort Ripley, ten thousand dollars; wT*`or {the cgxtinuatioin of the road from the mouth of Swan River to the 1nnc ago gency, ve thousand dollars; th For  ppntinuation of the road from Wabashaw to Mendota, fifteen ousan dollars; How expended. The continuation of the construction of said roads to be made under the direction of the Secretary of War, pursuant to contracts to be made Pmvlso. by him, or under his direction: Provided, That so much of any former