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 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 269, 270. 1866. 289 CHAP. CCLXIX. —-An Act to provide for and to regulate the Weighing of Exports, July 26, 1866- andjbr 0lhe1'Pufp0seS. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ States of America in Congress assembled, That upon all weihable wgP;:b$§'::t*: articles hereafter exported, upon which a drawback or return duty is ck,Sg,xp0,,,,d’ allowed, and upon all weighable goods withdrawn from bonded ware- three centsper houses for export, there shall be levied and collected, by the collectors of hsggfglggé the several ports, three cents per hundred pounds, to' be determined by the returns of the weighers. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the office of measurer at the of50B of port of New York is hereby abolished, and the duties heretofore per- KZ§‘°f‘¥§:;" °‘° formed by them shall be performed by the weighers.abolished. Sec. 3. And be it jitrtber enacted, That the weighers at the port of I}gii°:;‘Lb° New York shall receive, from and after the passage of this act, an annual gzgggm y salary of twenty-five hundred dollars: Provided, That the increase of Salary of compensation, over and above the present salary of said officers, shall not ggghgglf exceed, in any tiscal year, the amount of fees earned by them. Pmviso. Ammovnn, July 26, 1866. CHAP. CCLXX. —An Act granting Lands to the State tf Kansas to aid in the Con- July 26.1886- struction q/' a southern Bran of the Union Pacific Railway and Telegraph, from Fort Riley, Kansas, to Fort Smith, Arkansas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of aiding Publivlvmds the Union Pacific Railroad Company, southern branch, the same being a ggqfgisznmk corporation organized under the laws of the State of Kansas to construct construction of and operate a railroad from Fort Riley, Kansas, or near said military ?;`**n¤`°°;li§¤d reservation, thence down the valley of the N eosho River to the southern fuggrlgsey Em line of the State of Kansas, with a view to an extension of the same Fort Smith. through a portion of the Indian Territory to Fort Smith, Arkansas, there is hereby granted to the State of Kansas, for the use and benefit of said railroad company every alternate section of land or parts thereof designated by odd numbers, to the extent of five alternate sections per mile on each side of said road and not exceeding in all ten sections per mile ; but in case it shall appear that the United States have, when the If Md! ¢>f’ line of said road is definitely located, sold any section, or any part there- Egiztieggziid ot, granted as aforesaid, or that the right of pre-emptiou or homestead or msemd,&s. settlement has attached to the same, or that the same has been reserved °*b°’ l*¤&* m°¥ by the United States for any purpose whatever, then it shall be the duty £2,f€3§g:°0,~}“ of the Secretary of the Interior to cause to be selected for the purposes aforesaid, from the public lands of the United States nearest to the sec~ tions above specified, so much land as shall be equal to the amount of such lands as the United States have sold, reserved, or otherwise appropriated, or to which the right of homestead settlement or pre-emption has attached as aforesaid, which lands, thus indicated by the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall be reserved and held for the State of Kansas for the use of said company by the said Secretary for the purpose of the construction and operation of said railroad, as provided by this act: Provided, That any and all lands heretofore reserved L¤¤d¤ h°’°*°‘ to the United States by any act of Congress, or in any other manner by ;°;;,;£`;§°gm competent authority, for the purpose of aiding in any object of internal this act. improvement or other purpose whatever, be, and the same are hereby, reserved and excepted from the operation of this act, except so far as it may be found necessary to locate the route of said road through such Right ¤fW¤y reserved lands, in which case the right of way, two hundred feet in g'“°"’d' width, is hereby granted, subject to the approval of the President of I·¤¤d¤¤¤*¢¤b¤ the United States: And provided, further, That said lands hereby :::§$;flul’§g`;°“d granted shall not be selected beyond twenty miles from the line of said fromhus otmad. road. v01.. xiv. 19