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 FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 203, 204, 205. 1874. 51 prior to the thirtyfirst day of July, eighteen hundred- and seventy-two: Provided, That the owner of such merchandise shall, within thirtydays ApeliQ¤ti<>¤ #9 be {rom the passage of this act make application therefor in writing to the §“d° ""“““ **h¤°Y collector of the port at which such merchandise arrived? WS'. Approved, June 3, 1874. CHAP. 204.--An act donating condemned cannon and cannon-balls to the posts of the yum, 3 1874_ Grand Army of the Republic of Philadelphia and other associations, for monumental —————¥—— pl1I`p0S€S. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Anzertea in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of `War be, 0¤¤<`1¢¤m¤d can- ‘ and he hereby is, authorized to deliver, if the same can be done without “°“ €”““t?d E'? "‘“"` detriment to the Government, two condemned cannon and eight cannon- $5:, gg23E3c Liz? balls to each of the following-named organizations, for the purpose of purposes. ornamenting burial-grounds of deceased soldiers: To the post numbered two, Grand Army of the Republic, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; to the post numbered live, Grand Army of the Republic, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; to the post numbered six, Grand Army of the Republic, of Philadelphia., Pennsylvania; to the post numbered seven, Grand Army of the Republic, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; to the post numbered eight, Grand Army of the Republic, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; to the post numbered ten, Grand Army of the Republic, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; to the post numbered seventy-one, Grand Army of the Republic, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; to the post numbered nineteen, Grand Army of the Republic, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and four condemned cannon and sixteen cannon-balls to each of the tbllowing organizations, namely: To the corporate authorities of the town of Winterport, State of Maine; to the Soldiers? Monument Association of Henderson County, State of Illinois; to the Northumberland county Monument Association of Pennsylvania; to Fuller post No seventy- four, Grand Army of the Republic, Ca-tasauqua, Pennsylvania; to Delaware county Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument Association, at Chester, Pennsylvania; to Chapman Post, No sixtyone, Grand Army of the Republic at Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania; to Doubleday Post, No one hundred and eighty-nine, of the Grand Army of the Republic at Tamaqua, Pennsylvania; to the Monumental Association at York, Pennsylvania; to post No thirty, Grand Army of the Republic, at Cambridge, Massachusetts; to post No. sixty-eight, Grand Army of the Republic at Boston, Massachusetts; to the Soldiers Monument Association at Springheld, Massachusetts; to post No. one hundred and twenty-two Grand Army of the Republic, at Amesbury,Massachusetts; to the Trustees of the Soldiers Monument Fund, at Akron, Ohio; to the officers of the Sol_diers’ Monument Association at Chalmettc,-Louisiana ; to the Soldiers’ Monument Association at Pomeroy, Ohio; to post No. sixty-three, Grand Army of the Republic, at Natick, Massachusetts; to post No. tive, Grand Army of the Republic, at Morgantown, West Virginia; to post No. eighty-nine, Grand Army of the Republic, at Beverly, Massachusetts; to the Soldiers Monument Association Vat Binghamton, New York; and to the Soldiers Monument Association at Alliance, Ohio. Approved, June 3, 1874. CHAP. 205.—~An act to provide for the better protection of the frontier settlements of June 3, 1874. Texas against Indian and Mexican depredaticns. _"°“__"‘ _ 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, Consn·nc_non_ or and he is hereby, authorized to construct and operate a line of telegraph, ;‘;l(iS";';Q(*{,_;,;‘ beginning at or near the city of Denison, in Grayson county, Texas ; mv ,0 CQ, ,, hc, thence by the nearest practicable route to Fort Sill, Indian Territory ; miiitm- lusts,