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 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 129-132. 1871. 588 any party claiming title or the right to acquire title to any part of said lands under the provisions of the so-culled homestead or pre-empted laws of the United States, or claiming any part thereof as swamp lands. Armovno, March 3, 1871. HAP. CXXX.-An Act to create Ports e Deli a { ° ‘ C Ualgbrnia, and providefnr Appointment of £eputyv¢($yoUebm‘1I?lb_;`ckIgd1(_'i¢(i hyid  to a lish the Ojfice of Surveyor of said Port. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United State; of America in Congress assembled, That Eureka, in the county of Eureka ¤¤<! Humboldt., and Wilmington, in the county of Los Angeles, State of §}§Q§;°",;,2‘d° California, shall be, and are hereby, respectively, constituted ports of de- pertsofdelivery. livery, within the collection district of San Francisco; and there may Degiztyzcolloebe appointed a deputy collector of customs for each of said ports, who '£"· “*i°’· P“Yr shall perform the duties of such office and receive the compensation of °` one thousand five hundred dollars per annum as salary. Sec. 2. That any vessel of one hundred tons, or over, coming from or Certain vesgoing to sea, may proceed directly to or from Eureka or Wilmington, :l‘3_;°‘Ql“Yl;;c°"°d and report, through the deputy collector of said port, to the collector of y' ` customs at San Francisco. Sec. 3. That the office of surveyor of customs, created by act of Con- Omee of surgress July one, eighteen hundred and seventy, for the port of Vallejo, ::§§;1‘{;`.‘;“;1'f5"" in California, is abolished, and in lieu of such surveyor of customs a ighgd, J ` deputy collector of customs is hereby authorized to perform the same D°P¤*Y9°ll¤¢· services and receive the same rate of compensation as is provided in m °°°h°m°d' this act for the deputy collector at the port of Eureka or the port of Wilmington. APPROVED, Merch 3, 1871. CHAP. CXXXI.——An Act to extend the Benefits of the Donation Law of September March 8, 1871- twent_y—seven, eighteen hundred mzdfijly, lo certain Persons. 1859, nh. 76. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United VOL lx` P. 49m States of America in Congress assembled, That all persons who, at the time H BOM H¤li:°*»· of settlement, possessed the qualifications prescribed in the fourth and ];,r§su(§·°?>ug;t fifth sections of “An act to create the office of surveyor-general of the Sound_Agricul~ public lands in Oregon, and to provide for the survey, and to make ;‘;;{$;3":°P;g'°_ donations to settlers of the said public lands," approved September 3; of mg, twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and fifty, and who made bona fide set— tlement upon the lands claimed by the Puget Sound Agricultural Company, in Washington Territory, within the time limited for settlement by said act and the amendments thereto, shall be, and are hereby declared to be, entitled to all the privileges and benefits of said act and amendments. Sec. 2. That the rights and privileges of heirs and assigns under the Privilege: 9¤· said donation {ew, and the amendments thereto, shall be, and are hereby, {;‘Q;°£u§°£¤f:_s_ extended to the heirs and assigns of the settlers named in the first section of this act. APPROVED, March 3, 1871. CHAP. CXXXII.-An Act to amend an Act to revive, consolidate, and amend the March8,18'I1. Statutes relating to Patents and Copyrights. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ _ States of America in Congress assembled, That that part of section thirty- b Y;”;PPl:>::*t9;° three of an act entitled “An act to revise, consolidate, and amend the mylssuégrgflob statutes relating to patents and copyrights," approved July eight, eigh- ters-ps.tentigteen hundred and seventy, which requires that, in case of application by ig$d\h;"g‘ {wg assignee or assignees for reissue of letters·patent, the application shall be {hg ;¤v¤¤20.·,&Z;,