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 thousand dollars per annum: Provided, however, That said officer may Such deputyw be required, in addition to his duties as such deputy collector, to perform ¤°* as i¤¤P¤<=*¤1‘» the duties of an inspector of the customs, without additional oompen-lg &°’ · sation.

· Approved, March 3, 1873.

CHAP. CCLXXIV. — An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to enable honorably March 3, 1873. i, discharged bcldzers and Sazlvrs, their Wviwus andprphan Children, to acquire Home- stands on the public Lands zfthe United States," and the Amendments thereto. Ante; P. 49.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section two of the act Persons anentitled "An act to amend an act relating to soldiers’ and sailors' home- ging W: l;°m°‘ gteads," approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, 'be i,:;e§;iii·e°€,i?v° amended so as to read as follows: That any person entitled under the med l¢S¤¤l¤¤¤ provisions of the foregoing sections to enter a homestead, who may have }£?k‘;°f$,K;“Qif_ heretofore entered under the homestead laws a quantity of land less than ference. one hundred and sixty acres, shall be permitted to enter so much land 1872»°h·338·§2· as, when added to the quantity previously entered, shall not exceed one Am’ P` 33E' hundred and sixty acres.

Approved, March 3, 1873.

CHAP. CCLXXV.—An Act pr ¢heSReliq" of me Sum of Connecticut and other Mar(h3, 1813. tutes. "_""*‘

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Paymentm ury be, and he is hereby, directed out of any money appropriated to g;';"l;‘;l‘f\‘g· R"` continue the settlement of accounts presented under the act of July vgnégd iiuri-ng twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to pay to the governor th¢1¤f5>w¤¤·f¥>r of Connecticut, or to his dulyauthorized agents, any amounts advanced f,’g'“ by the said State in payment of chaplains, extra surgeons, or assistant upon pniper surgeons employed by said State in said capacities during the late war; V°;‘§é‘f'“i\ 21 the said claims to be settled by the proper accounting officers of the v01_ `P_jy6_ treasury upon vouchers filed: Provided, That certificates of actual employment are filed with the accounts.

Sec. 2. That when the vouchers of other States for payments made to Payments to chaplains, extra surgeons, or assistant surgeons situated similarly with gzfzlimgsé fg; those of Connecticut are filed, the Treasury Department shall adjust and prow. vouch;;,, settle them according to the provisions of the foregoing section.

Approved, March 3, 1873.

CHAP. CCLXXVI.—An Act to authorize the Interment of honorably discharged Sol- Much 3, 1873, diers, Sailors and, Marines in the national Cemeteries of the United States. _"";““

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That honorably discharged sol- Honorably disdiers sailors or marines who served during the late war either in the :;‘5;§:d0j°}g;f”* regular or volunteer forces, dying subsequent to the passage of this act 1-;nF,_im€,,m, may be buried in any national cemetery of the United States free of cost gymzi may be and their graves shall receive the same care and attention as the graves tig:;? gx33m8g_ of those already buried. The production of the honorable discharge of the deceased shall be authority for the superintendent of the cemetery to permit the interment.

Approved, March 3, 1873.

CHAP. CCLXXVII.— An Act to encourage the Growth of Timber on western March 3, 1873. mines.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Oizited States of America in Congress assembled, That any person who shall plant, ,n;°E;>¤S,gg*;*;; protect, and keep in a healthy, growing condition for ten years forty acres ye,;,., R,;,,, Mm of timber, the trees thereon not being more than twelve feet apart each of timber an any