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 284 FOBTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 242, 243. 1880. B0¤nd¤·ri<~>¤ d c- ranges twenty-seven and twenty-eight east of the Willamette meridian; north to the summit of the Cascade Mountains; thence northerly along said summit to the boundary line between the United States and British Columbia; thence east along said line to the Columbia guide meridian; thence south on said meridian to the l1ne_between townships sixteen and seventeen north; thence west along said line to the line between ranges twenty-seven and twenty-eight east; thence south along said line to the place of beginning, shall constitute a separate land district, t0 be called the Yakima land district, the office of which shall be located at Yakima City therein. Register- and re- Sec. 2. That the President shall appoint, by and with the advice and ¤°iV°* =¤¤*?h°*l¤°*l consent of the Senate, or dining the recess thereof, a register and a in the place where said land office is located, and shall have the same powers and responsibilities, and shall receive the same fees and emoluments, as the like officers now receive in the other land-oinces m said Territory. Pmcfs and en- Sec. 3. That all persons in said district who, prior to the opening of gI;‘:;fgTca":L"§°: applications for pre-emption, homestead, or other land rights, in any iQ;,,,,,, ],,,,(i-(,mc,,_ other land-office in said Territory of Washington, shall hereafter make proofs and entries at said Yakima land-office; and all unfinished business in any other land—office relating exclusively to lands in said Yakima land district shall be transferred to said Yakima land-office when notified by the officers of the opening thereof. _ Approved, June 16, 1880. ‘ J1-1116 16, 1880- CHAP. 243.-An act to provide for the settlement of all outstandin claims against ";"‘;""""" the District of Columbia, and conferring jurisdiction on the Court 0% Claims to hear tl1e same, and for other purposes. _, Be it enacted by the Senate and House 0 R resentatives 0 the United ?°“."*,9€,Qm‘mS- States of America in Congress assembled? Thzat the jurisdibtion of the ,,,,{,:f;:f( 2:.,2;, Court of Claims is hereby extended to, and it shall have original legal 0;.,.;.,,,, wu,;,,,; the and equitable jurisdiction of, all claims now existing against the Dis- 1)ist¤·i<·t<~fo<>1um- trict of Columbia arising out of contracts, made by the late Board of ‘""'°”p°°' ° ‘ the District of Columbia, and such claims as have arisen out of contracts made by the District Commissioners since the passage of the act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and of all claims for work done by the order or direction of the said Commissioners, and accepted by them for the use, purposes or benefit of the said District of Columbia, and prior to the fourteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-six; and all certiiicates of the auditor of said Board of Public Works, all certificates issued by the auditor and comptroller of the District of Columbia, all claims based on contracts made by the Levy Court, all sewer certificates, all sewer taxes not heretofore converted into three-sixty-tive bonds, all measurements made by the engineers of said District of work done under contracts made since February twenty-nrst, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, for which no certificates have been issued to and received by the contractor or his assignee which certificates shall be prima facie evidence of the amount of work done, all claims based upon contracts made by the Board of Public Works for which no evidence of indebtedness has been issued. P"°°°*l“'°· Said Court of Claims shall have the same power, proceed in the same manner, and be governed by the same rules, in respect to the mode of _ hearing, adjudication, and determination of said claims, as it now has 1’·‘<>·{•{¤· in relation to the adjudication of claims against the United States: Proulégfgzggal 1‘¤1¢¤ vided, Said court may make such additional rules as may be necessary to save costs and prevent delays in the prosecution of such claims. When the tual of any claim against the District of Columbia, prosecuted
 * ““l· and running westerly along said line between townships six and seven
 * ° b° “P*‘°‘"*°d‘ receiver of public moneys for said district; and said officers shall reside
 * ·¤`i9¤ and 0W9f ¤¤· said Yakima land-office, shall have filed their declaritory statements or
 * 3, . .£ d Public Works, and extensions thereof made by the Commissioners of