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 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 125-127. 1871. 581 names, residences, and descriptions of trademarks, and furnish to the Secretary fac-similes of such trademarks; and it shall be the duty of the G<>pi<>¤ of' Secretary to transmit one or more copies of the same to each collector ;"'d°"Q°€;k“I§° or other proper officer of the customs of the United States, to be used tg?] co W by such officers in the execution of the first section of this act. APPROVED, March 3, 1871. CHAT. QXXVI. -An fict ainendatory ofan Act entitled “An Act to further provide for March 3, 1871. giving Lpect to the various Grantsqf pnbltc Lands to the State of Nevada,approved June ezg ith, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. volt xm p_’68_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section four of an act en- S;<>l€<>ti°¤ of titled " an act to Further provide For giving effect to the various grants ?§;°f;gg;l§y°°1` of public lands to the State of Nevada,” be, and the same is hereby, California. amended so as to read as follows: And it is further enacted that the lands granted to the State of California for the establishment of an agricultural college by the act of July second, eighteen hundred and 1862,_9lr1·?•0· sixty-two, and acts amehdatory thereto, may be selected by said State V;°g£"éf'§§€' from any lands within said State, subject to pre-emption, settlement, Vol. xiv. 20é. entry, sale, or location, under any laws of the United States. Such selection may be made in any legal subdivisions, adjoining by sides, so as to constitute bodies of not less than one hundred and sixty acres; or they may be made in separate subdivisions of forty, eighty, or one hundred and twenty acres, respectively: Provided, That this privilege Li_mit¤fi0¤¤0 shall not extend to lands upon which there may be rightful claims under H,;;gZ$° °f s°' the preemption and homestead laws, nor to mineral lands: And pro- If certain vided further, That if lands be selected as aforesaid, the minimum price l·¤é¤dj]¤*‘° ****1*;;** of which is two dollars and fifty cents per acre, they shall be taken acre ;B’t;kB§;,?g;,_ for acre in part satisfaction of the grant, and the State of California and California shall pay to the United States the sum of one dollar and twenty-five Sh“up“Y¤&°‘ cents per acre for each acre so selected, when the same shall be patented , to the State by the United States: Provided fu[rt]lzer, That where lands, Where lands sought to be selected for the agricultural college, are unsurveyed, the f§gb§gha:$;l£;°' proper authorities of the State shall file a statement to that effect with surveyed. the register of the United States land office, describing the land by township and range, and shall make application to the United States Su""°Y· surveyor-general for a survey of the same, the expenses of the survey for field-work to be paid by the State, provided there be no appropriation by Congress for that purpose. The United States surveyor-gem eral, as soon as practicable, shall have the said lands surveyed and the township plats returned to the United States land office, and lands so surveyed and returned shall, for thirty days after the tiling of the plats in the United States land office, be held exclusively for location for the Location. agricultural college, and within said thirty days the proper authorities of the State shall make application to the United States land office for _ the lands sought to be located by sections and parts of sections: Provided, angrggmglégz That any rights, under the pre-emption or homestead laws, acquired rights nomqect, prior to the filing of the required statementwith the United States regis- 6d- _ ter, shall not be impaired or aiiected by this act: And provided further, h0?lg$E§';·&dc That such selections shall be made in every other respect subject to the ' conditions, restrictions, and limitations contained in the acts hereby modified. APPROVED, March 3, 1871. CHAP. CXXVII.-An Act lo amend an Act entitled “An Act to reduce the Expenses _@rch B, 1871. of the Surve and Sale ey" the pub/ic Lands in the United States," approved Mag thirty, 1862, ch. 86. eighteen hundred and sixt_y—two. Vol. xii. p. 409. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States q" America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled “An act