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 140 FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 270, 271, 272. 1876, ninety-two, twenty-nine hundred and ninety-three, twenty-nine hundred and ninety-four, twenty-nine hundred and ninety-tive, twenty-nine hundred and ninety-six, and twenty-nine hundred and ninety-seven, of the Revised Statutes be extended to, and held to include, the port of Saint Paul in the collectiondistrict of Minnesota. ` Appraisers sal- SEO. 2. That the appraiser at the port of Saint Paul shall receive the Mb'- same amount of salary that the deputy collector of that port now reoeives. Approved, August 14.,1876. Aug. 14, 1876. CHAP. 271.-—An act allowing the Pacific Mail Steamship Company to carry the mails —·—-——-——-— in their new iron steamships. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Iron ,¤,,,mshiP,, States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster-General be, accepted for China and he is hereby, authorized to accept from the Pacidc Mail Steamship mail ¤°¤‘Vi¤°- Company, for service in transporting the mails of the United States between San Francisco and China, the steamships City of Sidney, City · of N ew York, and City of San Francisco, the same being new iron American-built ships of more than three thousand tons register; said iron l§6?>»¤h-ii?. steamships to be substituted for any wooden side-wheel steamers now B S°"‘°‘· 450* lawfully doing service under the act of Congress of February seventeenth, Proviso. eighteen hundred and sixty-five: Provided, That nothing herein con- . tained shall be construed as creating reviving or recognizing any claim now pending, or as a basis of any claim which may hereafter be proferred against the United States by said steamship company, growing out of any law or contract whatever, excepting compensation for service performed by the said company for the balance of the term of the con tract of the said company made in pursuance of the said act of February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-Eve and for which appropria, tion has been made. Approved, August 14, 1876. Aug_ 14, 1876, CHAP. 272.-An act to provide for the printing and distribution of the Reports of -~ ——- ~—··- ·~ — the Commissioner of Agriculture for the years eighteen hundred and seventy-four and eighteen hundred and seventy-five. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Agricultural rc- States of America in Congress assembled, That the- public printer be and r¤rt¤i¤l»<> r¤·i¤¤t<><l· he is hereby directed to cause to be printed one hundred thousand copies of the Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, twenty thousand copies of which shall be for the use of the Senate and eighty thousand copies for the use of the Nu ,,, r, H of House of Representatives; and that he also cause to be printed two copies. hundred thousand copies of the Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-ve forty-th ree thousand seven hundred and fifty copies of which shall be for the use of the Senate, one hundred and thirty-one thousand two hundred and fifty copies shall be for the use of the House of Representatives and twenty-five thousand copies shall be for the use of the Commissioner of Agriculture; Apprepricticn. and that the sum of one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated for the execution of · the work, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, August 14, 1876