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 288 FOBTY-SIXTH CON GBESS. Sess. H. Ch. 245, 246. 1880. as have not been heretofore sold or disposed_of by said State, and which act of said State is in words as follows, to wit: _ _ “An act accepting from the United States a grant of two millions or more acres of land in lieu of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections, and relinquishing to the United States all such sixteenth and thuty-sixth sections as have not been sold or disposed of by the State. _ g “ The people of the State of Nevada represented in Senate and assembly do enact as follows: _ Snorion. 1. The State of Nevada hereby accepts from the United States not less than two millions of acres. of land in the State of Nevada in lieu of the sixteenth and thirty sixth sections heretofore granted to the State of Nevada by the United States: Provided, That the title of the State and its grantees to such sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections as may have been sold or disposed of by the State prior to the enactment of any such law of Congress granting such two millions or more acres of land to the State shall not be changed or vitiated in consequence of or by virtue of such act of Congress granting such two millions or more acres of land, or in consequence of or by virtue of this act surrendering · and relinquishing to the United States the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections unsold or undisposed of at the time such grant is made by the United States. “ Sec. 2. The State of Nevada, in consideration of such grant of two millions or more acres of land by the United States, hereby relinquishes and surrenders to the United States all its claim and title to such sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections in the State of Nevada heretofore granted by the United States as shall not have been sold or disposed of subsequent to the passage of any act of Congress that may hereafter be made granting such two millions or more acres of land to the State of Nevada: Provided, That the State of Nevada shall have the right to élsglectfthe two millions or more acres of land mentioned in the act”: ere ore Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Two million States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and are hereby, "*?:::d·‘;,f6 l§;‘t‘; granted to the State of Nevada two million acres of land in said State §}-**1,;,,,,,,],, in HGH in lieu of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections of land heretofore granted of the sixteenth to the State of Nevada by the United States: Provided, That thetitle of an <l ihiriy-sixih the State and its grantees to such sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections as Sagglxo may have been sold or disposed of by said State prior to the passage ' of gliis act shall not be changed or vitiated in consequence of or by virtue ois act. L ands granted _SEo. 2. The lands herein granted shall be selected by the State authorg’wb§t;€;°°*°d by ities of said State from any unappropriated, non-mineral, public land ' in said State, in quantities not less than the smallest legal subdivision; and when selected in conformity with the terms of this act the same shall be duly certified to said State by the Commissioner of the General Land Office and approved by the Secretary of the Interior. L a mis granted Sec. 3. The lands herein granted shall be disposed of under such laws, to be f rules, and regulations as may be prescribed by the legislature of the gjrilfzzybv fe  State of Nevada: Provided, That the proceeds of the sale thereof shall ,,,,,,9 of gm, $,,,,0 be dedicated to the same purposes as heretofore provided in the grant of Nevada. of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections made to said State. Prrwivv- ‘ Sec. 4. This act shall take eifect from and after its passage. Approved, June 16, 1880. June 16, 1880. CHAP. 246.-An act for the establishment of titles in Hot Springs, and for other p'l11'p0S6S. A _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United. Haasngngglgfv? States of America in Congress assembled, Thatany person, his heirs 0I' dicmgg lb y t 6 legal representatives, ID whose favor the commissioners appointed undef eommmsumers. the acts of Congress of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven and eight-