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 FORTYFOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 267, 268, 269, 270. 1876. 139 dollars hereinzmfter appropriated. And the sum of forty thousand d0l— A1>1>v5>rr‘iMi<>¤ laws is hereby appropriated for incidental repairs of harbors for which $:"`°P“”“ ‘“‘““"" there is no special appropriation provided for by law, and for exau1in:1—— yS' tion and survey of such rivers and harbors, as in the judgment of the Secretary of War, will subsorve the general interests of commerce. Sec. 3. That the Secretary of War is hereby directed to report to ,]$$P"“*’ W $°"‘ Congress on the first Monday of December next what legislation, in his  ¥‘,f,§‘,1f;f opinion, is necessary to protect the breekwaters, piers, and other public mm and m,f§\Q;{,i works constructed by the United States against trespasses upon or ¤¤<> of i>i<>r¤.<>tc. injury thereto; and the Secretary of War is hereby directed to report to Congress at its next session all the instances in the United States in which piers, breakwoters, or other structures or works built or made by. the United States in aid of commerce or navigation, are used, occupied, or injured by a corporation or an individual, and the extent and mode of such use, occupation, or injury, and the facts touching the same. Any person who shall wilfully and unlawfully injure any pier, break water, or other work of the United States for the improvement of rivers or harbors, or navigation in the United States, shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by ix fine not exceeding one thousand dollars. Approved, August 14, 1876. , CHAP. 268.~—An act to authorize the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to receive lands Ang. 14, MTG. in payment of Judgments to Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. ;·—— ·»—·- —— ~ Be tt enacted by the Senate and House cp" Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioners of In- Certain limos to diém Affairs be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to collect be tnkcn in suiis and receive, in payment of the amount due on certain Judgments  3* vl,‘w_¤‘ in favor of William Johnston and against Wil1iam H. Thomas, now y,,,,;,gm;,, ,,,,_'“YQ`,'fT held by him in trust for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of iam Ir.'1‘1im·nm. North Carolina, the lands nwntnioned and described in the award of Rufus Barringer, John H. Dillard, and Thomas Rutlin, as a board of arbitrators, under date of October twentymhird, eighteen hundred and seventyiour, upon which such judgments were a lien; such lands to be taken at their cash-value, to be determined by an appraisal to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and conveyed to the Eastern Band of Cherokee lndizms in tee-simple: Provided, That if the lands p,.,,,.,,,,,_ above mentioned shall not be sufficient in value to pay off and discharge said judgment, the Commissioner is authorized to receive such other lands as the said Eastern Band of lndians may select, by and with the assent of the said Commissioner, to an amount sutiioiont to discharge the said judgment. ` Approved, August 14, 1876. CHAP. 269.-—An act to change the nsgrnle ,t-he pleasure-yacht "Lydia." to that of Aug. 14, 1876. ‘ `y v —_‘”""°”"" Be it enacted by the Senate and House f yfwhi yacht "lJydia," owned by Andrew (J. Wheelwright, of Boston in the 8;,*1;;} °"““g“‘d “’ State of Massachusetts, be, and hereby is, changed to that of "Sy1pl1," ' and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to grant said vessel a register under said name. i Approved, August 14, 1876. CHAP. 270.-An act establishing the port of Saint Paul, Minnesom, as a port of ap- Alig-14, 1876 pI`&LlS& ., Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions contained $”“'F Pew} to ‘•° . . . _· ~ _ POUD of {l.])pl3.lSD.l. 1n,and the privileges accoxded by,sections twenty-nine hundred and R_ Sn 2990 to ninety, twenty-nine hundred and ninetyone, twenty-nine hundred and 9997,pp_579,53g_