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 FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. H. C11. 13, 14. 1875. 295 lows, viz: Commencing on the Columbia River at the intersection of the range-line, between ranges eight and nine east, thence south on said range-line to the fourth standard parallel, which is the north boundary of the Linkton land-district; thence east on said parallel to range twenty- seven east; thence north on range-line between ranges twenty-six and twenty-seven to the Columbia River · thence down said river to the place of beginning, comprising all that land in Oregon situate north of the Linkton land-district and between ranges eight and twenty-seven east of the Willamette meridian. Said district, as above bounded, shall be . known and designated as The Dalles district; and the office of said district shall be located at the city of The Dalles, or such placeas the President L¤¤d·¤m<>° M shall direct, in the State of Oregon; and the President of the United TM D“u°“‘ States shall have power to change the location of said land-office, in said L<>¤¤*i°¤ my b° State, from time to time, as the public interests may seem to require. °h‘“¥g°d· Sec. 2. That the President is hereby authorized to appoint, by and Register and x·e· with the advice and consent of the Senate, or during the recess thereof, ceivera register and a receiver for the district hereby created, who shall each reside in the place where said land-office is located, and shall have the same powers, responsibilities, and emoluments, and be subject to the same acts and penalties, which are or may be, prescribed by law in relation to other land-onicers in said State. Sec. 3. That the public lands in said district shall be subject to sale Sale vf 1¤;¤d¤_ i¤ and disposal upon the same term and conditions as other public lands T’°° D“u°’ d"’*‘“°“· of the United States: Provided, That all  ales and locations made at the Sm, M ,-0,.,,,,, onice of the old district of lands situated within the limits of the new land-omce cendistrict, which shall be valid and right in other respects, up to the day iir¤¤¤d· on which the new office shall go into operation, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed. Approved, January 11, 1875. CHAP. 14.-An act explanatory of the resolution entitled “A resolution for the relief Jen, 11, 1875. of settlers upon the Absentee Shawnee lands in Kansas/’ approved April seventh, L-- eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. p Whereas several tracts of land ceded to the Shawnee Indians by the Vol. 10, p. 1053. treaty concluded between them and the United States which was proclaimed November second, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, were erroneously set apart and allotted to various ind1v1duals of the Shawnee tribe of Indians,_ and which said allotments were subsequently canceled, and 'therefore form a part of the residuum of the land which by the treaty aforesaid was to be set apart for the Absentee Shawnees: Therefo lg; it enacted by the Senate and House of Rqwcccntativea of the Unitd States of America in Oongress assembled, That the terms_of the resolution Res. 9, April 1, approved seventh April, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, for the relief 18% extegdgd 2: of the settlers upon the Absentee Shawnee lands in Kansas, should be fbssumshawnm extended to those settlers who new occupy and have improved tracts of hud, land known and described as the east half of the northeast quarter and VOL 16 p_ 5g_ the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section twenty-mne ’ in township twelve, of range twenty-three east, of the sixth principal meridian; the south half of the southwest quarter of section five; the south half of the southwest quarter, the north half of the southwest quarter, and the northwest quarter of section eight, in township thir- ` teen of range twenty-two east, of the sixth principal meridian; all located in the State of Kansas, within the boundaries of the tract ceded to the Shawnees by the treaty proclaimed on the second November, eighteen hundred and nfty-four. _ Approved, January 11, 1875.