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 580 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 123-125. 1871. Much 8, 1871. CHAP. CJXXIII. -An Act to renew certain Grants of Land to the State of Alabama. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative: of the United Formorlsnd States q`AmenZca in Congress assembled, That the grant of lands made E::;}grA:}£i_ to the State of Alabama by the act of Congress approved June three, md, ,,,,,wc,;_ eighteen hundred and fifty-six, entitled “An act granting public lands, in 1856, 3=h· 4L alternate sections, to the State of Alabama, to aid in the construction of v°l' m' p' U` certain railroads in said State," to assist in the building of a railroad from SW am°p'45` the city of Montgomery, Alabama, to some point on the Alabama and Tennessee State line, in the direction of Nashville, is hereby revived and renewed for the use and benefit of the South and North Alabama Railroad Company, subject to all the conditions and restrictions contained in Ifr¤¤<1iq¤<>t= the act referred to, and subject to the further limitation, that if the said €§;';g1;;;?st° railroad is not completed within three years from the passage of this act lands unsold to no further sale shall be made for the benefit of said road, and the lands '°E_’:‘;,S°' unsold shall revert to the Elnited States : Iiroviogzd, 'ghat the lands granted by the act hereby revive, except miners lan s, s all be sold to actual settlers only, in quantities not greater than one quarter section to any one purchaser, and for a price not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per acre. bplphtrlgpzruplg Sec. 2.bT:]x1t th? ripht, polwemlaug authlcrity is hlerebyéiveln tp the . company ui ingtxe a oresui mi roa to ta e romt e u ic an, ad- jacent to the lines of said railroad, earth, stone, and other materials for wiglshrzggdlgegg the construction thereof; and the right of way is hereby granted to the wm0§,_ extent of one hundred feet in width on each side of said railroad where it may pass over the public lands, including all necessary grounds for stations and structures connected therewith, not exceeding forty acres at any one station. Approved, March 3, 1871. March 8, 1871. CHAP. CXXIV.·-An Act to provide for the Redemption of Copper and other Token °"-`_`—"""" Coins. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 0 the United bugggggyezgsg States of America in.'O'0ngress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasme to be M_ ury IS hereby authorized and required to redeem in lawful money, under deemed in sums such rules and regulations as he may from time to time prescribe, all cop- €§'g;;;i§glf;*1;¤ per, bronze, copper-nickel, and base-metal coinage of every kind hereto- ' fore nuthonzed by law, when presented in sums of not less than twenty m®¤¤SG¢<§£z€;- dollars rand whenever under thismuthority these coins are presented for mma whom redemption 1u such quantity as to show the amount outstanding to be re- &c dundant, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to discontinue or diminisihb he manufacture and issue of such coinage until otherwise or ere y xm. Approved, March 3, 1871. March 8, 1871. CHAP. CXXV. —-An Act in Relation t0_/raudulent Trade-marks upon foreign Watches. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re resentatives o the United &g*l%g3:j;}¤;:. States of America in Congress assembled, Thug; from and ajffter the first ms}m{ap,ur°m’ day of Aprxl, eighteen hundred and seventy~onc, no watches, watch zippgsgrg spew gases, watch movements, or parts of watch movements, of foreign manummié mmufw acture, whxch shall copy or simulate the name or trade-mark of any t,m,,,,_ W be em domestic manufacturer, shall be admitted to entry at the custom-houses {pred at cpstom- of the United States, unless such domestic manufacturer is the importer sgfm un °"’ of the same. Mggzidpgmssyks t §I¤C· 2. That domestic manufacturers of watches, who have adopted mmurmmmmof ru e-murks, may cause to be recorded in the treasury of the United wmhcs to be Stntes, in a book to be kept for that purpose, and under such rules and recorded, crc. regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, their E