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 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 172. 1856. 141 on which each respective claim is founded ; and also a transcript of their decisions against claimants, with a like statement of the evidence, and the reason of such rejection. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioner of the Patent to iww General Land-Office, upon the receipt of such transcript of their de- glzggpgeglalm cisions, shall issue a patent to such claimant so confirmed in his title by the said commissioners ; and where any such claims have been rejected, Review or rethe said Commissioner, upon application of the proper person, shall have .l°°U°¤S· power to revise such decision of the said board, and may, if in his opinion the evidence warrants it, reverse such decision, and issue a patent therefor to such claimant: Provided, That this right to revise shall not extend Provisoes. to those claims rejected, where the same lands have been confirmed by the said board to some other claimant: And provided further, That the Patents to be patents so issued shall only be a relinquishment of the title of the United Ouiyamiinqugsil. States, and shall not be considered or construed into an abridgment of the mem OVW18- rights of third persons. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That immediately after the passage Certain books, of this act, the, Commissioner of the General Land-Office shall give &9· ¤<> bé mmsdirections to the register and receiver of the land—offices at Indianapolis  °°m` forthwith to transfer to the land-oflices at Vincennes the books, documents, maps, plats, surveys, and all other papers and writings deposited in the land-offices at Indianapolis by the register and receiver of the land-ohices at Vincennes, and which originally were deposited in the land-offices at Vincennes, and were transferred from said offices to the land-ofiices at Indianapolis, under the provisions of the act " for abolishing land-offices under certain circumstances, and for other purposes," approved June the 1840, eh. 36. twelfth, eighteen hundred and forty; and the said land offices at Vin- lI;°l·d"· cennes are hereby reestablished and reorganized, as fully and effectually V,,,:;,,;;, for the transaction of business and the sales of the public lands within tabtisbed. said Vincennes land district, as if said land-offices had not been abolished by the provisions of the act last aforesaid. Size. 9. And be it further enacted, That the commissioner, appointed pay of comunder this act by the President, shall receive as a full compensation for mi$Si¤¤<=¤‘· his services, a salary at the rate of three thousand dollars per annum, payable quarterly out of the treasury ; and the register and receiver shall P¤Y°(¥1<>ti€iS*°¤‘ receive such compensation for their services under this act as may be rd re°°mr' just and proper, in the discretion of the Commissioner of the General Land—OfIice. Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Rules smdreg- Commissioner of the General Land-Office, to prescribe such rules and g;;*£)‘ES18tj’ l’° regulations as may be necessary to give full effect to the provisions of this ` act. Approved, August 18. 1856.