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 70 THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 166. 1860. - mento to Portland, with steamer service from Portland to Cowlitz, and from Cowlitz to Olympia by four-horse stages; and the Postmaster General is directed to discontinue the ocean service from San Francisco to Olympia, via Portland and Astoria, Oregon, so soon as the service contemplated by this act is established. · Armovmn, June 21, 1860. Juno 21, 1860. Cm?. CLXVI.—-An Act ocmjlnuing certain Land Entries under the third [proviso to "”"‘—""‘ flac jim] Section a the Act ofthird March, eighteen hundred and fjiyjive, entitled, "An Act making ppro ictiawor the Sermlcc of the Post-Qjire Department, during ilncjiacal Year ending lie/.t}nirf of lune, etyhteen hundred and _/;`f?y-siz·." Be it emwted by the Senate and bbusc of Representatives of the (Ended Certain entries States of America in Oongms assembled, That all entries which have °f md by '“’“l heretofore been allowed b re 'sters and receivers and in revard to which contractors con- . y .gl . . ’ ° gm.; no adverse claims have arisen under decisions of the Secretary of the Interior, or of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, setting aside such entries, under that portion of the third proviso to the first section of an uct, approved third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, entitled
 * 856, ch. 201, “An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Oilicc Depart-

S ‘ ment during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand Vol. x. p. 684. eight hundred and fifty-six," in the following words: "That each contlractor engaged, or to beyengaged, in carrying the mails through any of the erritories west 0 the ississippi shall have the privilege of occupying stations at the rate of not more than one for every twenty miles of the route on which he carries a mail, and shall have a pre-emption right therein when the same shall be brought into market, to the extent of six hundred and forty acres, to be taken contiguously, and to include his improvements; but no such pre-emption right shall extend to any pass in a mountain or other deflle," be, and the same are hereby, confirmed, subject to any bond jide claim under any law of the United States to the whole or any portion of the lands embraced in said entries or locations made prior or subsequent to theidate of the selection thereof by the persons aforesaid; and the Pntantstoissue. Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby directed to issue a §::l¤1;:vf;>:t;h2vl:ndsesmbraced in fsaiddentriesé upon) payrment of lone dollar · cen er acre or et t: Proviso. Provided, That each cdhtractor shall hatisly th;mSe`<?riaryno?utflie llhezrior that he has complied with the terms of his contract, and that said entries have been used and occupied as stations on the line of the route during the existence of his contract; and that the provisions of this act shall be me me 0 rou e, hugsnzzqgw Sec. 2- rind 6c it further enacted, That no rights, from and after the ,,,,6,,. the W of passage of this act, shall accrue under the provisions of the aforesaid act 1866, en. 201. of third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-Eve, which provisions are Repeal. hereby repealed, saving all rights heretofore acquired, or those provided 01,1n the foregoing; and that for the purpose of facilitating the transportation of the publxc mails of the United States west of the Mississi i River to the Pacific Ocean, and intermediate points, the Secretary of {lie {ntenor be, and he is hereby, authorized, upon the application of the thl;I‘m:·:;°*;_:°<;: °$t¤l¤¤*6¤`—Gl¤¤ct‘al, to reserve, as mail stations, for the use and occumsqmppl mm pancy of mail contractors, during the existence of their contracts, a Prodi;'. to be N, quuntnty of public lands, not exceeding the area of one section ’at any and an itlltsucgllgocalnties as in his judgment are deemed necessary oi advisable, lgwsof tin where the public surveys. have been made, according to the a _ ose surveys; but where stations have been or may hereafter be esignated in- advance of the public surveys, such stations shall be laid off und; site élxrcction of the 1’ostmaster·Genei·al, in a. square form, with 516 hues 8; 5:* the adjustment hereafter of such boundaries, to conform to ° Public surveys, 1f such adjustment be deemed advisable,
 * 8l'.X'.l(§lBd tt;. one tand the first bmw. jide set of pre-emptions on one and the