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 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. DI. C11. 146-149. 1881., 5gg Sec. 3. That all sales and locations made at the offices of the districts in which the lands embraced in this district have hitherto been included, situated wholly within the limits of this district, which shall be valid and right in other respects up to the day on which the new office shall go into operation, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed. Approved, March 3, 1881. GHAP. 147.-An act to regulate the mode of purchasing tobacco for the United Merch 3, 1881. States Navy. ·—-—————-— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy Regulatingmode be, and he is hereby, directed to cause all purchases of tobacco for the °f P“’°h¤¤i¤g, *°· use of the Navy to be made in the city of Washington, and as follows:  {{2;, Ummd In the month of February or March of each year the Secretary of the y` Navy shall cause proposals for bids for supplying the Navy with tobacco during the next year to be advertised thirty days in one daily newspaper in each of the cities of New York, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Richmond, Raleigh, North Carolina, Saint Louis, Louisville, Nashville, Hartford, Connecticut, Detroit, Cairo, Illinois, and Chicago ; said tobacco to be manufactured during the months of June, July, August, and September; the bids to be accompanied by samples of the tobacco which each bidder may propose to furnish. The lowest bid for furnishing tobacco equal to the United States Navy standard now in use shall be accepted. Approved, March 3, 1881. · CHAP. 148.-A:n act to provide for the preparation of classified abridgments of all March 3, 1881. ` letters patent 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 sum of ten thousand Clv-Buried v»l>ridgdollars be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, out of any moneys mafgft 0‘}fthL°%.;Qf·‘ belonging to the patent fund in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $0.1Swan to be to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Patents in printed. the preparation of classihed abridgments of all letters patent of the T0 be Paid fmm States. p8tBI1t flllld. Sno 2. That the said abridgments shall be printed, and one copy of Distribution. each shall be furnished to each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in Congress; one copy to each of eight public libraries to be designated by each Senator, Representative and Delegate; and two copies to the Library of Congress- and also copies to such foreign governments, libraries, and learned societies as the Commissioner of Patents may designate: Provided, That copies shall be sold at the cost of printing, Copies sold at and all sums received from such sale shall, on or before the iirst day of °<>¤*· each month, be paid into the Treasury. Approved, March 3, 1881. CHAP. 149.—A;n act to graduate the price and dispose of the residue of the Osage March 3, 1881. Indian trust and diminished-reserve ands, lying east of the sixth principal mem- ·-······*"" dian, in Kansas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representaties of the United S¢0·i6S of America in Congress assembled, That all of the lands known 3·S In?h?·1‘° gusgsggg @116 Osage Indian trust and diminished reserve lands, lying east of the dimigshad mw.`", Sixth principal meridian, in the State of Kansas, remaining unsold on lands, Kansas, the thirtieth day of June, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-one, shall be odered for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at not less than seventy-five cents per acre; and all of said lands remaining unsold on the thirtieth day of June, anno Domini eighteen hundred Mid eighty two, shall be offered for sale to the highest bidder for cash, T°'m“ °f °“·]°·