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 From New Germantown, Perry county, to Concord, in the county of Franklin.

From Wausau to Jenny.

From Waupacca, via Amherst, to Plover.

From Kingwood, via Albright, to Portland.

From Denver to Bear Cañon, on the headwaters of West Plumb Creek.

From Golden City to Ralston Creek.

From Mankato, Minnesota, via Madalia, Ashipman, Randolph Lake, Stevens Lake, north and south bends of the Des Moines River, Lake Graham, Blue Mound, Sioux Falls, Upper James Crossing, Yankton, Smutty Bear’s Camp, Bon Homme, Wannavi, Tuffsville, (or Neshuda,) Philbrick’s Crossing, (or Choteau,) and Greenwood, to Fort Randall.

From Elkpoint, via Brule Creek and Valley of Big Sioux River, to Sioux Falls City.

From Great Salt Lake City, Utah, via Ogden City, Cache Valley, Snake River Ferry, and Bannack City, to Fort Benton.

From Chico, California, via Susanville, to Humboldt City.

From Fort Laramie, Nebraska, to Hell-Gate, Washington.

. And be it further enacted, That the true intent and meaning of the eighth section of the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two,” shall be taken, deemed, and construed to be directory to the Postmaster-General to make the mail service on the route therein mentioned semi-weekly for the period therein provided.

. And be it further enacted, That the Overland Mail Company now engaged in carrying the United States mail from Saint Joseph, Missouri, to Placerville, California, shall have the privilege of occupying the public lands where their stations are fixed at the rate of not more than one for every ten miles of the route on which said company carry the said mail, and shall have preëmption right therein of any land, not mineral, and not disposed of or reserved, or to which a preëmption or homestead claim has not attached when the same shall be brought into market to the extent of one hundred and sixty acres, to be selected contiguous to and to include their improvements; said preëmption right being in lieu of the same heretofore granted by the twelfth section of the act approved third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, entitled “An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department during the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.”

, February 24, 1863.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all that part of the present Territory of New Mexico situate west of a line running due south from