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 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 172, 173, 174. 1879. 353 CHAP. 1"I2.—An act to protect Holmead cemetery in the District of Columbia. March 3, 1879. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the right and title of the Dimm of O0_ United States to and in square number one hundred and nine, i11 the lunibia. city of \\’ashington, commonly known as Hohnead’s cemetery, be, £lll(I Hoimewi cemethe same is hereby granted to and vested i11 the District of Columbia, €—’{"‘“tFj1{Q»f°’ and shall be used by said District for public school purposes, and for °° Pm1°°`S` none other. The Commissioners of the District, or their successors in Maybe sold. office, may at {Ill}' time sell any part or the whole of said square ; but the proceeds of such sale or sales shall be exclusively invested in sites for public schools or in the erection or purchase of school-buildings, and shall be used for no other purpose whatever. But before making any Remgval of disposition of the said square, the District of Columbia shall remove all bodies. the bodies remaining interred therein to some suitable burial-ground, together with all tombstones or other monuments remaining at the graves from which the bodies are so removed. Approved, March 3, 1879. CHAP. 173.-An act to an1end the act entitled "An act to provide for furnishing March 3, 1879. trusses to disabled soldiers ", approved May twentyrighth, eighteen hundred am ————-—· seventy-two. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section one of the act 1872,ch.228. entitled "An act to provide for furnishing trusses to disabled soldiers ", 17 S*“*·· 164- approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy two, be, and the same is hereby, amended so that said section shall read as follows: That every soldier of the Union Army, or petty-officer,.seaman, or _Tr·usses for solmarine in the naval service, who was rupt1u·ed while in the line of duty dim Md S*¤l°F¤· during the late war for the suppression of the rebellion, or who shall be so ruptured thereafter in any war, shall be entitled to receive a single or double truss of such style as may be designated by the Surgeon-General of the United States Army as best suited for such disability; and when- Rsnswms, ever the said truss or trusses so furnished shall become useless from wear, destruction, or loss, such soldier, petty-officer, seaman, or marine shall be supplied with another truss on making a like application as provided for in section two of the original act of which this~is an amendment: Provided, That such application shall not be made more than once Provico. in two years and six months: And provided further, That sections two and three of the said act of May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and Exteusionofact. seventy-two, shall be construed so as to apply to petty-officers, seamen, and marines of the naval service, as well as to soldiers of the Army. Approved, March 3, 1879. CHAP. 174.-Au act to validate and confirm certain acknowledgments of deeds and March 3, 1879- other instruments of writing under seal made in a foreign country for lands lying in ii the District of Columbia, and the records thereof. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ States of America in Congress assembled, That all acknowledgments of D¤¤P*i•>* °f C°· deeds and other instruments of writing under seal heretofore made in a 1`"°l”°‘ foreign country, before any secretary of legation consul, or consular Foreign noofficer of the United States, for lands lying in the District of Columbia, k¤°W1°d8m°¤*¤ °f are hereby validated and confirmed, and the same, and the records of d°°d ‘ the said deeds and instruments, if the said deeds and instruments have been recorded, are declared to be as good and efieetual, in behalf of the grantees therein named, and all persons claiming through or under them, as if the said acknowledgments and records had been respectively made and recorded under the provisions of existing laws: Provided, That Prvviw. nothing in this act shall be construed divest just rights already acxx-23