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 406 FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 127,128, 129. 1877. seven, to leave and be absent from said lands until the nrst day of Oc- _ tober, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, under such rules and regu- R°§“]”*‘°““““° lations as to proof of the same as the Commissioner of the General m°° ‘ _ Land·Office shall prescribe; and where such grasshoppers shall reappear in eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, to the like destruction or injury of crops, the right to leave and be absent as aforesaid shall con- Aqm-s,, rights tinue to October first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine; and during not to attach. such absence no adverse rights shall attach to said lands, such settlers being allowed to resume and perfect their settlement as though no such absence had occurred. . Time for making Sec. 2. That the time for making final proof and payment by preii¤n1pr¤<>f=m<1psy— empmrg whose crops have been destroyed or injured as aforesaid is ‘“°“° "x*°“d°°‘ hereby extended for one year after the expiration of the term of absence provided for in the first section of this act; and all the rights and B<·>¤°6*¤ *° °X· privileges extended by this act to homestead and pre-eruption settlers shall apply to and include the settlers under an act entitled “An act to ,,,,,t,,_'encourage the growth of timber on western prairies," approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and the acts amendatory thereof. Approved, March 3, 1877. March 3, 1877. CHAP. 128.-An act to provide for a reprint of the resolves, ordinances, and acts —-—-—————-———- passed by the Continental Congress and the Congress of the Confederation. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Acts of Conti- States of America in Congress assembled, That there be printed at the ¤<>¤*=¤l O<>¤£‘¤‘°¤¤· Government Printing-Oflice, for the use of Congress, five thousand °t°‘* to b° P"“t°d‘ copies of the resolves, ordinances, and acts of the Continetal Congress and the Congress of the Confederation of the United States, dftecn hundred copies for the use of the Senate, three thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, and five hundred copies for the use of the executive departments. Hcw compiled Sec. 2. That said resolves, ordinances, and acts shall be taken from Md l>fi1¤¤¢<l· the journals, and printed with a proper index, under the supervision of the Librarian of Congress. Appropriation. Sec. 3. That the sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expense of making HW di¤l¤¤P¤¤<i· such work and index; the same to be disbursed under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library. · Approved, March 3, 1877. March 3, 1877. CHAP. 129.-An act to provide for the disposition of Fort Dalles military reservation. _ Be tt enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Fort _Dal1<=¤ rc- States of America. in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, “‘?l"’?t}°,’5 hl0S }’° and hereby is, authorized to transfer to the custody and control of the gggfymgt IDCQBTQSQ Secretary of the Interior, for disposition for cash, according to existing fcrsa.1e,etc. laws relating to the public lands, after appraisement, to the highest bidder, and at not less than the appraised value, nor at less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the United States military reservation known as the Fort Dalles military reservation at Dalles in the State of Oregon, as the same was established by order of Brigadier- General XV. S. Harney, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, excepting any portion of said reservation as may have been granted to any settler under the act of Congress making donations of the pub- 1850, cli. 76, lic lands in Oregon to settlers, approved September twenty-seventh, 9 Sm-- 496- eighteen hundred and fifty, or which inay have been granted under any other act of Congress previous to the time when such military reservation was established.