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 FOBTYTHIRD CONGRESS. Sess. H. OH. 40, 41, 76, 77. 1875. 3].5 hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry out the provisions of this act. _ Sec. 2. That this act shell expire on the iirst day of September,. Expiration or exghteen hundred and seventy-five. ect Approved, February 10, 1875. ’ CHAP. 41,.=,An act to amend section two thousand three humlre and twen - our of the revised statutes, relating to the development of the miningresources tgffthe United States. { _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section two thousand Amending, three hundred and twenty-four of the revised statutes, be, and the same R·S·· 232'*·P·428· is hereby, amended so that where a person or company has or may run a tunnel for the purposes of developing a lode or lodes, owned by said person or company, the money so expended in said tunnel shall be Moueysexpenaea talsen and considered as expended on said lode or lodes, whether located on tunnels to be prior to or since the passage of said net; and such person or com- d°‘;"’;d °‘P°°d“d pany shall not be required to perform work on the surface of said lode °° ° °` or lodes in order to hold the same as required by said act. Approved` February 11, 1875. . CHAP. 76.-A11 awt to amend the act entitled “An ac m' sundry civil expenses of the Government for the dsodtyeeikdgdidgghgglzlfghgeihf eighteen hundred and seventy-Eve, and for other purposes," approved June twenty- l third, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprcacnmtives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled “An act Amending. making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for mj- *4557 “"*“» the iiseal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, up ‘ and for other purposes," approved June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, be and the same is hereby, amended by adding to the clause of said wet relating to the engraving and printing of the plates illustrating the report of the geographical and geological explorations and surveys west of the one hundredth meridian the following words: and “tha.t two thousand copies of the report shall be printed by the Congressional Printer/’ after substituting the word “ dollars" in lieu of thelconcludingl word of said clause. Approved, February 15, 1875. CHAP. 77.-—A11 act to facilitate the disposition of cases in the Supreme Court of the F°b‘ 16*1875 United States, and for other purposes. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in."0<mgress assembled, That the circuit courts `of the Seperate fiuélv. United States, in deciding causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdicp gfu;E*“I’i“ ‘;.“?m$°;‘[; tion on the instanceside of the court, shall hud the facts and the con- mm§‘Q,,{’,,; 0,,,,,,,,* in · clusions of law upon which it renders its judgments or decrees, and mgm wm, shell state the facts and conclusions of law separately. And in iinding the facts, as before provided, said court may, upon the consent of the parties who shall have appeared and put any matter of fact in issue, and subject to such general rules in the premises as shall be made and _ provided from time to time, impanel a juryof not less than five and not b J *15; ":P“¤°]°*l more than twelve persons, to whom shall be submitted the issues of fz1Gb' y ° S°° '· in such cause, under the direction of the court, as in cases at common _ _ _ law. And the tinding of such jury, unless set aside for lawful cause, Fmdwg of Jury- shall be entered of record, and stand as the iindin g of the court, upon _ · which judgment sballbe entered aeeording to law. The review of the Revlgw lg bil; judgments and decrees entered upon sueh hndin gs by the Supreme {’,f;Q',Q§d_°“” ’ Court, upon appeal, shall be limited to a determination of the questions I