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 552 FQRTYSIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I1. Ch.177, 178, 179. i830_ Settlement of ac- directed to close the accounts of the late Rear-Admiral A. H. Foote by ¤¤¤¤*¤- crediting him with the sum of eight hundred and thirty-four dollargq being the amount advanced to him while under orders to, take command of the South Atlantic squadron, and which he expended in preparing to execute his orders, but was prevented from reaching his post by reason of death caused by wounds and exposure incurred in service and in the line of duty. » Approved, June 9, 1880. Jum, 9, 1g8g_ CHAP. 178.-An act for the relief of certainsettlers within the late Fort Kearney ..3.;..; m111i3i1y I‘6S6I`V3»hl0]1 111 NBbI`&Sk3·. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Homcmad 8,,- States of America in Congress assembled, That the homestead entries mesor certain set- numbered seventy-one hundred and eighty-two, seventy-two hundred hundred and eighty-seven, seventy-nine hundred and twenty, and sev- 1g7d0h_ ooo,enty-nine hundred and twenty-one, made at Grand Island, Nebraska, Smt.,19, 94. under the act of Congress of July twenty-first, eighteen hundred anl seventy -six, by Morgan T. Martin, Samuel H. McNutt, Allan Di Randall, John J. Brown, Joseph B. Long, and Matthew O; Riley, as actual settlers, in section thirty-six, township nine north, of range fifteen west, and section thirty-six, township nine north, of range thirteen west, within the late Fort Kearney military reservation be, and the same are hereby, Prmziso. confirmed: Provided, The State of Nebraska shall, by legislative act, assent thereto; and thereafter the said State shall be entitled to select other lands of equal area for school purposes as indemnity for the lands embraced in said entries, in like manner as by existing law may be done in cases where lands in sections sixteen and thirty-six, appropriated for schools in Nebraska, have been sold, or otherwise disposed of by any act of Congress. Approved, June 9, 1880. June 9, 1880. CHAP. 179.-An act to authorize the Roman Catholic bishops in California to sell ····—·i· _ certain church lands. Preamble. Whereas certain lands known as the Canada de los Pinos or College Ranch, situate in Santa Barbara County, State of California, pursuant to the decree of the board of land commissioners appointed under the act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, entitled "An act to ascertain and settle the private land-claims in the State of California", were granted by patent of the United States dated February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to Joseph Sadoc Alemany, Roman Catholic bishop of Monterey, in the State of California, and his successors, “in trust for the religious purposes and uses to which the said lands have been respectively appropriated ”; 17110 said patent being recorded in the proper office at Washington City, in volume three, pages two hundred and twenty-eight to two hundred and thirty-tive, inclusive; and Whereas it is found that said lands are not suitably located for said purposes and uses: Therefore Be it enacted. by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United bncman egtimiic States of America in Congress assembled, That the said lands Or ally Dim? u;;_*°P Ul tl 1 0** or parts thereof maybe sold and conveyed by said grantee or his suG0<’>§· Author,, M, D 0 sors in such trust, discharged of said trust, and that said grantee or 1118 sci] trust mics, successors shall be bound to apply the proceeds of said college lull0h, and of all such sales in such other places as they may deem more suitable for the purposes and uses of said trust, discharged from the obligation, lf ZLDY, of kééplllg the Seminary college on said, ranch, but DOC f1°O1’Yl.1?ha·t of keeping one or more seminary colleges in accordance with the object
 * 16*** °P,F°’“ KMF and twentysix, seventytwo hundred and thirtythree, seventy-five