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 46 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. L Ch. 59, 60, 61. 1879. Terms M Owing- tucky shall be held at the times and places following, to wit: At Coving- At Louisville. my Louisville, on the third Monday in February and the iirst Monday m At immkfort. October; at Frsinkfort, on the first Monday in January and the second Ar. iwiiiwii, Monday in June; and at Paducah, on the First Monday in April and the ‘ third Monday in November. _ _ _ I D t, 0 Mui ug Sec. 2. The terms of said courts shall not be limnued to any particutm-ms. lar number of days, nor shall it be necessary to Q.d_]0l1I`D hy reason of the intervention of term elsewhere; but the court intervening may be adjourned until the business of the court in sesswn is concluded. _ R. s. 578 not m- Sec. 3. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to repeal S00h10D 1*0*10**- five hundred and seventyeight of the Revised Statutes. Approved, July 1, 1879. } . ¢ HAP. .— n r t additional righte to homestead settlers on public lands C 60 wdhiidtgiudgcféerlllimits in the Stgtcs of Missouri and Arkansas? Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represenmwvqs 0] the United 1m1»1m1m¤m. States of America in Congress assembled That irom and after the passage Odd sections in of this act the odd sections within the limits of any grant of pubhe lands ¤‘=¤iiw=w_ s;1‘=¤¤*¤ in to any railroad company in the States of Missouri and Arkansas, or to ff::‘:;‘;"‘0 8 such States respectively, in aid of any railroad where the even sections b{g,,,ggtc;,2lé8ttj(,,S_ have been granted to and received by any railroad company or by such states respectively in aid of any railroad shall be open to settlers under the liornestead laws to the extent of one hundred and sixty acres to each settler; and any person who has under existing laws taken a homestead on amy section within the limits of any railroad giant in said States, und who by existing laws shall have been restricted to eighty acres, may enter under the homestead laws an additional eighty acres adjoining the land embraced in his original entry, if such additional land be subject to entry; or if such person so elect, he may surrender his entry to the United States for cancellation, and thereupon be entitled to enter lands under the homestead laws the same as if the surrendered entry No few had not been made. And any person so making additional entry of eighty acres, or new entry after the cancellation of his original entry, shall be permitted to do so without payment of fees or commissions; and the Residence. residence of such person upon and cultivation of the land embraced in his original entry shall be considered residence and cultivation for the same length of time upon and of the land embraced in his additional or _ new_ entry, :md_slmll be deducted from the five ye2,1·’s residence and P*‘¢¤M**· oultivzwi on required by law : Provided, That in no case shall patent issue upon am additional or new homestead entry under this act until the person has actually, and in conformity with the homestead laws, occupied, resided upon, and cultivated the land embraced therein at least one year. Approved, July 1, 1879. July 1, 1879. CHAP. 61.-An act to provide office-rooms for the National Board of Health and for -—*——·—·—-— the publication of its reports and papers, B»lld.ll`)1‘ other purposes., Be it enacted by the Scnafe and House of R rescntatzvae 0 the United Ofl§¤·;;g;¤;»1 Board States of America in Congress assemI»lcd,`Th€¤1.l:: the Nationél Board of Mm rein mms Health is hereby authorized and empowered to procure suitable and in Washington, D_ §,l1ih0l(5Ilhlqll(¢0SlU the city of Washington for the transaction ofits bus- C. mess, at an rental not to exceed the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars per zmnum. And said board is also authorized to pay the sum of two hundred and twentyiivo dollars for the rent of building numher fourteen hundred and five G street, northwest in the city of Washn1gto1;,Xsu<_§ by the National Board of Health for offices, from the third ey o pri , eig teen hundred and sevent -, ‘ · · July., eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. y uma to the mud (my of
 * °¤· ton, on the second Monday in Mayend the first Monday in December;