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 5].0 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 149-152. 1881. at not less than fifty -cents per acre; and all of said lands remaining unsold on the thirtieth day of June, anno Dornini eighteen hundred and eighty-three, shall be offered for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at not less than twenty-five cents per acre; and all of said lands remaining unsold after the last said public oiiering shall be subject to be disposed of by cash entry at twenty-nve cents per acre, and the Secretary of the Interior may offer the same as aforesaid, in such quantities as may seem to him best; and may make all needful regulations, including the publication of notice of sale, as he may deem proper to carry out the pW,,,;,,,_ provisions of this act: Provided, however, That no proceeding shall be taken under this act until at least two-thirds of the adult males of said Osage Indian tribes shall assent to the foregoing provisions. Approved, March 3, 1881. · March 3, 1881. CHAP. 150.-·-An act to amend section fourteen hundred and eighty=six of the Re- —-—————-—-— vised Statutes in order to preserve the meaning of the original law from which it was taken, with reference to the rank of engineer officers, graduates of the Naval Academy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United R. S. 1486, amend- States of America in Congress assembled, That section fourteen hundred wb T. _ ml and eighty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended UD§`€g;°j°§(Q  by inserting after the word "aec0rdingly", at the end of the section the Navy, words, “Provided, That nothing in this section shall be so construed as Proviso. to give to any officer of the staff corps precedence of, or a higher relative rank than that of, another stanf officer in the same grade and corps, and whose commission in such grade and corps antedates that of such offlcer." Approved, March 3, 1881. March 3, 1881, CHAP. 151.-An act for the relief of Redmond Tully. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Redmond Tully. States of America in Congress assembled, That the President be, and he V ishereby, authorized to nominate and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate to appoint, Redmond Tully, late nrst lieutenant of the Twelfth United States Infantry, as first lieutenant in the United States infantry, to take effect from his nomination and confirmation under this act, and that he shall be assigned to the first vacancy occurring Promos. in such grade in the infantry arm of the service: Provided, That no pay or allowances on account of previous rank or services be allowed or paid to the said Tully: And provided further, That all laws prohibiting appointments in the Army in such cases be, and they are hereby, suspended so far, and so far only, as to the nomination of said Tully. Approved, March 3, 1881. March 3, I33L CHAP. 152.——An act for the payment of certain Indian war bonds of the State of ——-——— California. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropriation. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- _Payment of In- ury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay, out of the unexpended balance gpg Wm} bgugg of of an appropriation of nine hundred and twenty four thousand two hun- [1,; ° ° “ °" dred and nity nine dollars and sixty five cents made by the third seGti0H 1854, 0h_ om, of the act of Congress approved August nfth, eighteen hundred and 10 Stat., 582. fifty four, the sum of one thousand two hundred and ninety dollars and fifty six cents, which last named amount is hereby reappropriated, to the lawful holder of four California Indian war bonds issued by said Sta/tc 011 the eighteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and f\fty—SlX, under the provisions of the act of the legislature thereof approved May