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 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 117,118. 1857. 251 of the United States, in any wise relating to or effecting any right, claim, or title, or any contest therefor, to any of the public lands of the United States, and any person or persons shall, taking such oath, attirmation or athdavit, knowingly, wilfully, or corruptly swear or atlirm falsely, the same. shall be deemed and taken to be perjury, and the person or person_s guilty thereof shall, upon conviction, be liable to the punishment prescribed for that oiience by the laws of the United States. Approved, March 3, 1857. CHAP. CXVIl.—An Act to con frm to the several States the Swamp and overjlowed Lands March 3 185, selected under the Act of September twenip-eight, eighteen hundred and fijty, and the Act .A.;. of the second March, eighteen hundred an _;%rt_y-nine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Gifted States of America in Congress assembled, That the selection of swamp Selections 0;- and overflowed lands granted to the several States by the act of Con- Swamp Md Overgress, approved September twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and fifty, ggggglands °°"` entitled "An act to enable the State of Arkansas and other States to 1850, ch. 84. reclaim the swamp lands within their limits," and the act of the second V0]- iX· P· 519- of March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, entitled "An act to aid the 184%}, ch. 87. State of Louisiana in draining the swamp lands therein," heretofore made VOL ‘X· P· 35* and reported to the Commissioner of the General Land-Office, so far as the same shall remain vacant and unappropriated, and not interfered with by an actual settlement under any existing law of the United States, be and the same are hereby confirmed, and shall be approved and patented to the said several States, in conformity with the provisions of the act aforesaid, as soon as may be practicable .after the passage of this law: Provided, however, That nothing in this act contained shall interfere with the provisions of the act of Congress entitled "An act for the relief of Act of i855,¤h. purchasers and locators of swamp and overtlowed lands," approved March }3g€°g*§'g;;*élHg¤ the second, eighteen hundred and fifty-Eve, which shall be and is hereby ed_ ` continued in force, and extended to all entries and locations of lands Vol. x. p. 634. claimed as swamp lands made since its passage. Approved, March 3, 1857, CHAP. CXVIII.—An Act to construct a Building for a Custom-H`ouse_and P0st—O_fice at March 3, 1857, Perth Amboy, New Jersey. m Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives <y" the United States of America in Obngress assembled, That the sum of twenty thousand dollars, with ten per cent. thereon to cover contingencies, and so much as may be required to purchase a suitable site, be and the same are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise Appropriation appropriated, for the construction, in the city of Perth Amboy, in the f°’“’;“M§“S f°” State of New Jersey, for the accommodation of a custom-house and post- ;,,§`€Og$,é%gS§t office, of a brick building perfectly tire—proof, with tloors constructed Perth Amboy. of iron beams and brick arches, and an iron roof of forty-five by thirty- two feet, and thirty-two feet high: Provided, That no money hereby _Proviso as to appropriated shall be used or applied for the purpose mentioned until a sm "·“‘·l *"x“· valid title to the land for the site of said building shall be vested in the United States, and until the State of New Jersey shall also duly relinquish and release to the United States the right to tax or in any way assess said site, or the property of the United States that may be thereon during the time that the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof Approved, March 3, 1857.