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 FORIY-SECOND CONGRESS- Sess. III. Ch. 283-285. 1873. 609 CHAP. CCLXXXIII.-—An Act authorizing joint Entry by Pre-emption Settlers, and Merch 3, 1873. fer other Purposes. """" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Hzlted States of America in Congress assembled, That when settlements have been When settle. made upon agricultural public lends of the United States prior. to the `:‘;;° survey thereof, and it has been or shall be ascertained, after the public ;,,,,d,,,l.;,,,Y,, , surveys have been extended over such lends, that two or more settlers S¤¤’¤>’,=¤¤¤¢l Mer have improvements upon the same legal subdivision, it shall be lawful for f’;`:§{Q;,:`{_';s°;,.c such settlers to make joint entry of their lands at the local lend-office, or round m have for either of said settlers to enter into contract with his co-settlers to con- lmP'°§j°“*f*]*j vey to them their portion of said land after e patent is issued to him, and §Rl;2,:;l“l],;ll)` after making said contract, to file a. declaratory statement in his own name, may rmgkc lZ»i¤L and prove up and pay for said land, and proof of joint occupation by him- °“"Y· “"‘ self and others, and of such contract with them made shall be equivalent to proof of sole occupation and pre-emption by the appliczmt: Provided, That in no case shall the amount patented under this act exceed one hun— Limit to dyed and sixty acres, nor shell this act apply to lands not subject to home- “m°“"l‘ stead or pre—emption entry. Sec. 2. That effect shall be given to this act by regulations to be pre· Commissioner scribed by the commissioner of the general land-olfice. °° ""‘k"’ "“l°”‘ Approved, March 3, 1873. CHAP. CCLXXXIV.·-An Act to sell a. vacated Soldiers’ Burz`al·graund near Cum- March 3. l873· berland, Maryland, to the Hebrew Congregation q/'that City, to enlarge their Graveyard. { Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, Land in Cum-- and he is hereby, authorized and directed, on the payment to him of s.}’°’l,““d·,?I*{"Y‘ sum of money equal in amount to that paid for the property when pur· ,?;,gdtg,,°l,;(¥;Q_ chased by the United States, to convey by proper deed to Samuel Sonne- lgréw congregaborne, H. Stern, and Isaac Miller, in trust for the use and benefit of the 3°gn°f8:Q““ °“Y* Hebrew congregation of the city of Cumberland, Maryland, all the right, P ’ ' title, and interest of the United States in and to that parcel or lot of land, containing one-half acre, more or less, situated about one mile east of said city of Cumberland, near the old national road or turnpike, and lying near and adjacent to the burial-ground of said Hebrew congregation, being the same premises that were purchased for the United States on or about the second dey of May, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, by Captain Hurtt, A. Q. M., as a. burial-ground for its soldiers stationed stationed in that vicinity during the late war, and which has been made vacant by the removal of the bodies there interred to Antietem or other national cemeteries. APPROVED, March 3, 1873. CHAP. CCLXXXV.——An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act authorizing the March 3, 1873. Secretary of l’Var to release twenty;/ive Acres ¢(y`,the Lands of the United States at Plattsburgh, New York, to the [W10 York and 'anada Railroad Company, and jbr Ame, p_ 34;-,_ other Pll)])0SES,,’ passed June <-tg/nt, UIC/],ll<'€7l hundred and seventy-two. ·Be it enacted {gy the Senate and House of Representatives ty" the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of lV;u· be   of Tay authorized and empowered to release to the New York and (lzmzuln Rui]- road Company, its successors and assigns. a right of way along the l>m1l<s N. Y., to he re- 0f Lake Lhumpluln, upon and across the land owned uml possessed by the m;;"lY*5’l_Ll‘;m, United States in the town of Plattsburgh, Clinton county, New York, sub- ,;,,,,,,1,, M_ IL C, ject to such restrictions as the Secretary of \Va.r may think necessary to protect the interests of the United States : Provided, '1`hat before the Value thereof execution of such release the said railroad company shall first pay into the*° b° bm P’°“d· treasury of the United States the velue of such right of way per acre as fixed by the board of appraisers heretofore appointed under the act hereby amended, usstated in their report approved by the Secretary of War. v01.. xvii. Pun.- 39