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 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 176, 177. 1867. 541 last day shall fall on a Sunday, Christmas day, or on any day appointed by the President of the United States as a day of public fast or thanksgiving, or on the Fourth of July, in which case the time shall be reckoned exclusive of that day also. Sec. 49. And be it further enacted, That all the jurisdiction, power, Jurisdictiouof and authority conferred upon and vested in the District Court of the United_States . . . . courts in the United States by this act in cases in bankruptcy are hereby conferred mmm of G0_ upon and vested in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and lumbia and Terin and upon the supreme courts of the several Territories of the United ***0****5- States, when the bankruptresides in the said District of Columbia or in either of the said Territories. And in those judicial districts which are In districts not not within any organized circuit of the United States, the power and iuprganized cirjurisdiction of a circuit court in bankruptcy may be exercised by the ggxéi-lgdxfwtgr district judge. of circuit court. Sec. 50. And be it further enacted, That this act shall commence and When aette take effect as to the appointment of the officers created hereby, and the “‘k° °E°°°· promulgation of rules and general orders, from and after the date of its approval: Provided, That no petition or other proceeding under this act Pr-eviso. shall be filed, received, or commenced before the first day of June, anno Domini, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. APPROVED, March 2, 1867. CHAP, CLXXVII.——An Act jbrthe Relief of the Lzhabitants of Cities and Towns March 2, 1867. upon the Pub/ic Lands. ""`—"""' Bo it enacted by the Senate and Hiousc of Representatives of the United _ States of America in O'on_qress assembled, That whenever any portion of @50;;* ‘§l‘;b°"" the public lands of the United States have been or shall be settled upon cmg, pdblicy and occupied as a town site, and therefore not subject to entry under the l¤¤¤lS <>¤¤}1Pi¤d agricultural pre·emption laws, it shall be lawful, in case such town shall :;i:]?\¥3;`;°:{c2° be incorporated, for the corporate autliorities thereof, and if not incorpor- in trust, &c. i ated, for the judge of the county court for the county in which such town may be situated, to enter at the proper land office, and at the minimum price, the land so settled and occupied, in trust for the several use and benefit of the occupants thereof, according to their respective interests; the execution of which trust, as to the disposal of the lots in such town, Trusghow and the proceeds of the sales thereof, to be conducted under such rules ¤X<>¤¤i<¢d- and regulations as may be prescribed by the legislative authority of the State or Territory in which the same may be situated: Provided, That the entry of the land intended by this act to be made shall be made, or a Entry, &e. declaratory statement of the purpose of the inhabitants to enter it as a I‘;l;§:_‘° b° town site under this act shall be filed with the register of the proper land ’ office, prior to the connnencernent of the public sale of the body of land in which it is included, and that the entry or declaratory statement shall 1*0 l_¤°l“d° include only such lands as is actually occupied by the town and the title wm’ to which is in the United States. It" upon surveyed lands the entry shall upon surin its exterior limit be made in conformity to the legal subdivisions of the "°{’§;l0l"éfSg, public lands authorized by the act of twenty-fourth April, one thousand v0i_ {gg_  5ée eight hundred and twenty ; and where the inhabitants are in number one hundred and less than two hundred, shall embrace not exceeding three hundred and twenty acres; and in cases where the inhabitants of such Amount of town are more than two hundred and less than one thousand, shall em- {;`*“d f‘““d’”“Y brace not exceeding six hundred and forty acres; and where the number ° °° m ' of inhabitants is one thousand and over one thousand, shall embrace not Gxcccding twelve hundred and eighty acres : Provided, That for each ad- PFW150- ditional one thousand inhabitants, not exceeding five thousand in all, a further grant of three hundred and twenty acres shall be allowed: And _ WMM them p1‘0videdfurther, That in any Territory in which a land office may not Q33i2z20g?; have been established, declaratory statements as hereinbefore provided tiled where.