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 FORTY—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 209, 210. 1870. 189 CHAP. CCIX. ——An Act to establish an additional Land District in the State of Kansas. July 7, 1870. Be il enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all that portion of the R€PFbll¤¤¤ " western district " land district, created by the act; approved March three, m)%$;&r¥1t°s` eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, entitled *‘ An act to establish three ad- Kansas. ditional land districts in the Territory of Kansas," which is situated north 1?57·.°h· 9* of the township line dividing townships ten and eleven, south, in said V°`x1`p`187` State, shall constitute a new land district to be called the Republican land district. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President be, and he is Register wd hereby, authorized, whenever the public interests shall require, to ap- "““'°"‘ point, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, or during the recess thereof, and until the end of the next session of Congress after such appointment, a register and a receiver for the district hereby created, who shall respectively be required to reside at the site of their offices, have the same powers, responsibilities, and ernoluments, and be subject to the same acts and penalties, which are or may be prescribed by law in relation to other land officers of the United States in said State. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the public lands in said district Public lands shall be subject to sale and disposal upon the same terms and conditions S¤gJge>; l° sf‘1° as other public lands of the United States: Provided, That all sales and anprohggju ` locations made at the office of the old district of lands situated within the limits of the new district, which shall be valid and right in other respects, up to the day on which the new office shall go into operation, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed. APPROVED, July 7, 1870. CHAP. CCX. — An Act jbr the Improvement of Water Communication between the Mis· July 7, 1870. szsszppi River and Lake Jlichigan, by the Wl;9CON8iU and Fox Rivers. ’_"_*";' Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is _S¢¢r‘€f¤¤‘y of hereby authorized to adopt for the improvement of the navigation of the  f21g1g9g5g_ WVisc0nsin river such plan as may be recommended by the chief of the ment of naviga- Bureau of Engineers. Wm Pl l’Y“°°“‘ Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary aforesaid is here- S“l;l;£g,mi,], by authorized to ascertain at any time be shall deem proper within three within, &e._ years from the passage of this act, the sum which ought in justice to be glggzggzgvlglglgly paid to the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Company, a, corporation be paid to me existing under the laws of Wisconsin, as an equivalent for the transfer of 1‘~G¥€*>_¤}_¥3¤>j and . . - » · - r lSSl5S\[)pl C2.- all and singular its property and rights oi property in and to the lme of ml Company for water communication between the Wisconsin river aforesaid and the mouth transfer of its of the Fox river, including its locks, dams, canals, and franchises, or so P’°P°“Y‘ much of the same as shall, in the judgment of said Secretary, be needed; and to that end is authorized to join with said company in appointing a. Aybgmms, board of disinterested and impartial arbitrators, one of whom shall be selected by the Secretary aforesaid, another by said company, and the third by the two arbitrators so selected. The Secretary aforesaid is au- Attorney for thorized to employ a competent agent or attorney to represent the in- g;tQ;***d terests of the United States upon the hearing before such board: Pmvided, That in making their award the said arbitrators shall take into Amountlo be consideration the amount of money realized from the sale of lands here- Eifgiled Mm tofore granted by Congress to the State of Wisconsiii to aid in the con— struction of said water communication, which amount shall be deducted from the actual value thereof as found by said arbitrators. Sec. 3. And be itfartker enacted, That no money shall be expended on No expendithe improvement of the Fox or Wisconsin river until the Green Bay gglfillg iis1g1g5g_ and Mississippi Canal Company shall make and file with the Secretary of mem of me FOX War an agreement in writing, whereby it shall agree to grant and convey