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 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 47, 58. 1869. 441 or homesteads, according to law; and for the aggregate of the areas of the latter class of claims the said Vigil and St. Vrain, or their legal representatives, shall be entitled to locate a like quantity of public lands, not mineral, according to the lines of the public surveys, and not to exceed one hundred and sixty acres in one section. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the gen- Lines ofpublie eral land office to cause the lines of the public surveys to be run in the f“*""YS “’ b° regions where a. proper location would place the said Vigil and St. Vrain un` claims, and that the expense of the same shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; yet, before the confirmation Cost thereof. of the said act of June twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty, shall become legally effective, the said Vigil and St. Vrain, or their legal representatives, shall pay the cost of so much of said surveys as enures to their benefit respectively, and that all settlers of the said third class, Improvements whose claims may be adjusted as valid, shall have the right to enter %;;°'°“i“ "°°‘ theirimprovements by a strict compliance with the pre-emption or home- ' stead laws. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That upon the adjustment of the Plata to claim- Vigil and St. Vrain claims according to the provisions of this act, it shall “"“‘ be the duty of the surveyor-general of the district to furnish proper approved plats to said claimants, or their legal representatives, and so in like manner to said derivative claimants, which shall be evidence of title, the same to be done according to such instructions as may be given by the commisssioner of the general land office. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That immediately upon running the Surveyor-genlines as provided in section second of this act, the surveyor-general of gzzlggggfthe said district shall notify the said Vigil and St. Vrain, or their agents or Survey is being legal representatives, of the fact of such survey being made, and said made claimants shall, within three months after notice of such survey, select Ciaimantsto and locate their said claims in accordance with such survey and the pro- ;§‘2l‘;gS“:?t£‘;fl“‘° visions of this act and of the act to which this is amendatory, so far as three months, or the same is not changed by this act, and shall within said time furnish bf Mid to have the surveyor-general with the description of such location, specifying the zlhlggéned lines of the same. And the party failing to make such selection and location, in such manner and within such time, shall be deemed and held to have abandoned their claim, and their rights and equities under this act, and the act to which this is amendatory, shall cease and terminate. Sec. 5. And be ttfurther enacted, That in case of the neglect or refusal b N0 ;¤i*_t$°é>° of the said Vigil and St. Vrain, or either of them, to accept of the pro- mug t’l’ °' visions of this act, and the act to which this is amendatory, and to locate their said claims, as provided therein, no suit shall be brought or proceedings instituted in any of the courts of the United States, by such party or by any one claiming through or under them, to establish or enforce said claims, or for any cause of action founded upon the same, after six months from the passage of this act. Am-Rovnn, February 25, 1869. CHAP. LVIII. —An Act for the Relief of Walter D, Plowden. March 1, 1869. Be it enacted by the Senate and Muse of Representatives ry" the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- WPR5;¤B¤}§0 ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to W3lt€l‘ D. dn;°w` Plowden, a colored scout and spy, the sum of one thousand dollars, for military services rendered the army of the United States, under Major- General Hunter, in the military district of South Carolina, in the war of eighteen hundred and sixty-one, for the suppression of the rebellion. Approved, March 1, 1869.