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 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 198,199, 211, 212. 1878. 133 CHAP. 198.-An act establishing the salaries to be paid the collectors of customs of June 14, 1878. Plymouth and Nantucket, Massachusetts. ————- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be allowed and paid Collectors ofcusto the collector of customs of the district of Plymouth, Massachusetts, mms Mi PlYm°¤°h .1 salary of one hundred and dfty dollars per annum. and to the collector 'md N“"°°°k°°‘ of customs of the district of Nantucket, Massachusetts, a salary of two Salaries. hundred and fifty dollars per annum from the twenty-second day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, to the twenty-seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven: Provided, That this Pmvieo. salary shall not increase the maximum now provided by law. Approved, June 14, 1878. CHAP. 199.-An act for the relief of Charles 0. Allibone June 14, 1878. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United C. O. Allibone. States be, and be is hereby, authorized to place Charles O. Alliboue, PWPGF Plfwe ¤>¤ lieutenant in the United States Navy, now on the active list in his Nm R°g“t°"‘ proper position on the Navy Register next below Lieutenant F. W. Greenleaf, the position to which he was originally entitled. Approved, June 14, 1878. CHAP. 211.--An act to restore certain lands in Iowa to settlement under the home- yum, 15, 1g7g_ stead law, and for other purposes. _.; Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rqpresentatives of the United States o_/`America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- Lands w ithrior be, and he is hereby, directed to restore to settlement under the drawn from Missisg pre-emption and homestead law, by published notice, all vacant unap- EP}? iing tM‘a°°‘;;f propriated lands heretofore withdrawn for the Mississippi and Missouri s,::.;?, ,,;’,,,f°,,_ Railroad, in the State of Iowa, situated more than twenty miles from the amended line of route as located under the not approved June second 186,, Cb_10B_ eighteen hundred and sixty four, entitled “An act to amend an act 13 sian, 95, making a grant of land to the State of Iowa in alternate sections to aid in the construction of certain railroads in said State", approved May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six: Provided, That all actual set- Actual settlers. tlers now residing on said lands shall be permitted to enter not exceed- Elmics by- ing one hundred and sixty acres for each head of a family or single man over twenty-one years of age, embracing improvements, in pretercnce to any other person, on making proof of such settlement in accordance . with rules to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior: And pro- Final proof by. vided further, That all actual settlers now residing upon the lands hereinbefore mentioned shall be permitted to make the Iinal proof now required by law, and receive their patents at the expiration of five years patent., to, from the date of their actual settlement. Sec. 2. That this act shall not include any lands embraced in the Lands not inconiirmatory act approved January thirty-tlrst, eighteen hundred and °l‘ig;g· h 83 seventy-three, entitled “An act to quiet title to certain lands in the 1., Sg;,_;,2i_ State of Iowa-.” Approved, June 15, 1878. CHAP. 212.-An act for the construction of a public building for use by the United Juno 15, 1878. States Government in the city of New York. -—;— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Barge-omco,New Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be Y°*k· erected a barge-office at the revenue dock, in the city of New York, with suitable sheds for the accommodation of passengers arriving by