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 FORTY-SIXTH GONGRESS. Sess. II. OH. 24.9, 250, 251. 1880. 291 the 1*Tavy who may be discharged as machinists, with continuous-service Machinists honoertiiicates entitling them to honorable discharge, and those discharged °”“mY diS°h°·’€°d in the said rating with such certincates since the twentieth day of No- §°;f‘c ghIQ°0g,;,`_Q; vember, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, shall receive one-third of 20, 1879 ; a d a 1. one year’s pay as a machinist for each good-conduct badge they have ¤i<>¤¤lpv»ym¤¤t· received, or may receive, not exceeding three in number under the said certificates, the said gratuity to be received in lieu of re-enlistment as a machinist under such certincate, and to be in full and in lieu of all claims against the United States in connection therewith, for extra pay for re-enlisting, or for continuous service, or for enlistment as a petty- officer; and the amount necessary to carry out the provisions of this act Appropriation. is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so con- Promo. strued as to prevent the re-enlistment of machinists in the Navy. Approved, June 16, 1880. CHAP. 250.-An act to amend the sixth sub-division of section thirty-two hundred June 16, 1880. and forty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States. ——-——··-—·····— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sixth sub-division of R- S- $244, ¤j>=th section thirty-two hundred and forty-four of the Revised Statutes be “ “ b f ‘," ‘ “ ‘ ° " amended by adding thereto as follows: °m°"( °(` " Provided further, That dealers in leaf-tobacco (other than retail deal- Dealers in leafers as defined in the seventh sub-division of the section) who do not deal t<>l¤¤¤¤¤- in leaf tobacco otherwise than to sell, or offer for sale, or consi gn for sale on commission, to an amount not exceeding twenty five thousand pounds in any one special-tax year, only such leaf-tobacco as they purchase or receive in the hand directly irom farmers or planters who have produced the same on land owned, rented, or leased by them, or received the same as rent from their tenants, who have produced the same on such land, shall each be required to pay for carrying on such business a special tax of five dollars only. If any person who has paid such special tax shall be found to have purchased or received and sold, or consigned for sale on commission, more than twenty-ilve thousand pounds of leaftobacco, such as is herein provided for, in any one special-tax year, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue is authorized and directed to assess such person an amount of tax equal to the diiierence between the special tax paid by him and the special tax of twenty-five dollars hereiubefore imposed upon a dealer in leaf tobacco”. Approved, June 16, 1880. CHAP. 251.-—An act to carry into eifect the second and sixteenth articles of the June 16, 1880. treaty between the United States and the Great and Little Osage Indians, pro- —-——-······—*·· claimed January twentydirst, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. Whereas, by the act for the admission of the State of Kansas into the Preamble- Union, approved January twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, the United States granted to said State the sixteenth and thirty-sixth " sections “ of evry township of public lands in said State", but especially provided that the lands embraced within the Indian reservations in said State should not be alienated for any purpose, except with the consent of the Indians of such reservations, and in accordance with the conditions of the treaty authorizing such alienation · and Whereas, by the treaty between the United States and the Great and Little Osage Indians, proclaimed January twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven a trust was created for the disposal of the lands of said Indians in the State of Kansas, the metes and bounds of which said lands are specifically set forth in said treaty by which the United States ' bound itself to survey and sell any and all of such lands, " at a price not less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, as other lands are