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 294. FOBTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 9, 10, 412, 13. 1875_' laws of tho United States", approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, shall be made by tho Secretary of: Stgabo under thé seal of the Department of State, and so much of sand section as pm. vides that uch certificate shall be undcr the seal of tho United- States, is hereby repealed. R. S. 204, p. 31, Sec. 2. That section number two hundred and four of the revised ¤¤¤¢¤d¤d· statutes of the United States shall hereafter read as follows; When. ever a. bill, order, resolution or vote of the Senate and House of Representatives, having been approved by the President, or not having been returned by him with his objections, becomes a law or takes efkbct, it shall forthwith be received by the Secretary of State from the President; and whenever a bill, order, resolution or vote is returned by the President with his objections, and, on being reconsidered, is agreed to be passed, and is approved by two-thirds of both Houses of Congress, and thereby becomes a. law or takes effect, it shall be received by the Secretary of State from the President of the Senate, or Speaker of tho Hou e of Representatives in whichsoever House it shall lust have been so approved, and he shall carefully preserve the originals. Approved, December 28, 1874. D60- 28, 1874- CHAP. 10.-An act for the relief of certain settlers on tho public lands. Be it enacteif by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Certain smmm States of America in Congress assembled, That is shall be lawful for homei¤.i¤¤¤¤ by g¤¤¤¤— stead and pre-cmption settlers on the priblic lands, whose crops were Qgggggfégg destroyed or seriously injured by grasshoppers in the year eighteen hund°m€,,t,_ dred and sovcuty-four to leave and be absent from said lands until July first, eighteen hundred and saveutyhvc, under such regulations as to proo¥ of the ams as the Commissioner of the General Land 08500 may prescribe; and where such grasshoppers shall re-appear in eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to the like destruction of the crops of settlers, the right to leave and be absent as aforesaid shall continue to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. Adverse right¤5><>t SECTION 2. That during such absence no adverse rights shall attach ' tlcment as though no such absence had been enjoyed or allowed. Extension of time SEcr10N 3. That the time for making in al proof and payment by prefor ******1 P¤>°Y wd cmptors whose crops have been destroyed or injured as aforesaid, is P°ym°“°‘ hereby extended for one year after the expiration of the term of abscnw provided for in the first section of this act;. \ Approved, December 28, 1874. · Jan. 1, 1875. CHAP. 12.-An act suspendin so much of the act entitled "Au act re-ur inin ···~———··-····—— the several sta.H`·c0rps of the Ermy," approved June twenty-third, eighteen and seventy-four, as applies to contracts-surgeons. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of'Representativea of the United Act Jqm zz, 1874, Stateq ojAme¢··ica. em Congress assembled, That so much of the acts entitled $1458, S-4. ¤¤¤v¤¤<1- “An ams re-organizing the several staff-corps of the .Army", approved Am P 245 gontzract-surgeons, bo, and is hereby, suspended until otherwise providvd ’' y law. Approved, January 1, 1875. Jn_ 11, 1875- CHAP. 13.-An mt to create an additional mud-district in the State of Oregon, to b¤ ·-—i——- culled the Dalles 1u.¤d·district. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rqpreséntati·ves‘of the United _Tbp Dgmes land- States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of thc·United 0¤¢z¤¤. States bg, and he is hereby, authorized to establish an additional land- ‘“ ° · dxstmct lll the State of Oregon, which district shall be bounded 38 fd-
 * ‘{)sjlf;:°‘]§f gm:]? 110 said lands; such settlers being allowed to resume and perfect their set-
 * u;;fo;g_ °°“"“°"‘ J uno twenty-third eighteen hundred and seventy-four, as applies t0