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 FORTY—SECON D CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 348—350. 1872. 337 HAP. CCCXLVIII. -—An Act to amend the h section 0 an A I entitled " n C makiny Appropriations for the legislative, ezeciigve, and judicial lgxpensesef :4}; és ;·- ernment for the Year ending June thirtieth,   hundred and seventy-three, and for 18_-2;,2h'14gé§ 5' other Purposes. * P' ' Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the fifth section of the act L"' ¤‘°*1¤i¤i¤S approved May eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, making appro- §}"§§°,°1?a?;r€Ql°,; priations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the gov- be covered mw ernment for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy- of ‘:)°::*;"Y· {°• three, shall not be held to apply to materials, stores, or supplies sold to p;,}},, ce,?,,;? ctlicers and soldiers of the army or to exploring or surveying expeditions mmrielv. &¢·. authorized by law, and that said section shall not be held to repeal such QQ “§,;l'° W part of paragraph 1032, Revised Army Regulations of eighteen hundred ° and sixty-three, as provides that expenses of sales of military stores or supplies regularly condemned will be paid from their proceeds. Approved, June 8, 1872. CHAP. CCCXLIX. -—An Act relative to Homestead Settlers burned out in the States June 8, 1872. qf Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. "'_""""; WHsnsAs fires in extent unparalleled in the history of the country Preamble. burned through the newly settled parts of the States of Minnesota, \Visconsin, and Michigan, during the autumn of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, whereby many homestead settlers lost their dwellings and all of their personal property, and many were burned to death, and many others were so much burned as to disable them from labor for the present winter, and are unable to rebuild and occupy their lands within a period of six months after said fires had driven them from their homestead: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Matted States of America in Congress assembled, That all such persons occupying l’erso¤s occuhomestead claims under the laws of the United States, on lands of the  Qgnmggd United States, who were burned out, and the heirs of such persons who lands in certain were burned to death in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, in glms WM Wm the States of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, shall have until the tf;]},?,;?; 2;:,,6 first day of January, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-three, to burned, to have rebuild on and re-occupy said homestead lands; and that when said home-  iznéeéhild stead claimants shall prove up their claims, such period of time until the &c_,',,,,d such ' first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, shall be included mus f<> be inin the five years’ time which they are required by law to reside on said °1“d°d’ &°' lands, in the same manner as if such homestead claimant had actually resided thereon during said period of time. Sec. 2. That in all cases where the person having a homestead claim The heirs of under the laws of the United States, in said States of Minnesota, lVis- gj°S° b“*`¤°d· consin, and Michigan, shall have been burned to death or perished from cy;}{nni,lg,,P;(l`Q; the effects of such fires, it shall be lawful for the heirs or the guardian of register, and any children which may have survived said fires, or the administrator of the estate of said deceased homestead claimant, to prove up said claim be- ’ fore the register of the land-oflice of the proper district, and upon proof of the occupation and residence of such homestead claimant, up to the period of so being burned out, a patent shall be issued to said heir or heirs, or guardian for the use of such heir, or administrator for the use of such estate, in the same manner as if such homestead claimant had resided thereon for five years. Approved, June 8, 1872. CHAP. CCCL. ——An Act jf.z:z`ng the Salaries of the United States Attorney and United June 8, 1872. States Marshall for the Dzstrict of Nebraska. '__`;_— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ States of America in Congress assembled, That the United States district S°l*“°’°m’° VOL. xvu. Pun. -—- 22