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 Navy pensions, For navy pensions to invallds, widows, and dependent relatives, and &°· pensions to sailors of the war of eightee11 hundred and twelve, and for furnishing artificial limbs or apparatus for resectmn, with transportation or commutation therefor, compensatmn to pension agents, expenses of agencies, and fees for preparing vouchers and- adrmmstering oaths, as pro- 1800, ch. ss. vided. by the acts of April twenty-third, eighteen hundred; February lgggv    twentieth, eighteen hundred and forty-seven; August eleventh, eighteen 1862; ch, 166; hundred and forty-eight; July fourteenth and seventeenth, eighteen hun- 201. dred and sixty-two; June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four ; June sixth and July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and siXty-siX; March second, 2;;;,, ’ ’ eighteen hundred and sixty-seven; July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred gg;. ¤:· gg; and sixty-eight; June seventeenth and July eighth and eleventh, eighteen ,g,,,’ fh; 132; hundred and seventy, and all other pensions provided by law, four hundred 225, 238. and eighty thousand dollars: Provided, That the appropriation aforesaid To ,,8 Pm for navy pensions, and the other expenditures under that head, shall be from income of paid from the income of the navy pension fund, so far as the same may be “"Y f““d· sufficient for that purpose. Approved, February 20, 1872. March 1, 1872- CHAP. XXII. -——An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to providea natrbnal Currency $64, cb. 10W secured by Pledgeqf United States Bpnds, and to provide for the Circulation and Redempg   109 tum thereoj§" approved June third, eighteen hundred and si.rty;#>ur. °' xm' p'Be it enacted by the Senate and House cy" Representatives of the United Lgnvgnwgyth States of America in Congress assembled, That section thirty-one of said Tfrgclisn '¤;<>{¤ the act be amended by striking out the word “Leavenworth " when it occurs 5h8g_ °°r mu in paid section.M h 1 1872 rrnovrsn, arc,. March 1, 1872. CHAP. XXII;-- AndAlet7éxtm]’t;tir;p the gzwtejgr the Complegzm (fthe Grew Bqyymd sm,-. geon ay an a e . zcugan 1p ana, in the `tate of Wzsconsrn.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House ey" Representatives of the United Time for com— States of America in Congress assembled, That the time for the completion ggilnigrigp of the Green Bay and Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan ship canal be, c,,,;,;,, ,,,,l,,,,d,,d_ and the same is hereby, extended to the tenth day of April, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-four. Approved, March 1, 1872.

mm}. 1, 1872. CHAP. XXIV. —- An Act to set apart a certain Tract of Land lying near me Head-waters of the Yellowstone River as a public Park.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Public park States of America in Congress assembled, That the tract of land in the 'lerritorxes of Montana and Wyoming, lying near the headwaters of 0; ,1,,, Y,,,,,,,,., the Yellowstgnc river, and described as foHows, to wit, commencing at the eng: Rpm- Junction of _(¤ard1ner’s river with the Yellowstone river, and running east ¤¤ °·¤°¤· to the meridian passing ten miles to the eastward of the most eastern point of Yellowstone lake ; thence south along said meridian to the parallel of lautude passing ten miles south of the most southern point of Yellowstone lake; ; ithtpnce west along said parallel to the meridian passing fifteen miles wes o ie most western point of Madison lake; thence north l w s 'd meridian to the latitude of the junction of the Yellowstone and Cdithngds rivers; thence east to the place of beginning, is hereby reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or sale under the laws of the United Comm mom tStatels, alnd dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasuring-ground lowing, gc., or the enefit and enjoyment of the people; and all persons who shall ,;,0,,,,,,, ,0 be {mate or settle upon or occupy the same, or any part thereof, except as uespassers. fggnafter provided, shall be considered trespassers and removed there- 3 thelggérik aT11a; sgsfid public park shall be under the exclusive control of y 0 e interior, whose duty it shall be, as soon as practi-