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 l 28 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Szss. I. CHS. 746-747. 1886. July ci. lSS.S. CHAP. 746.-Au uct. referriuito the Court of Claims the claims {br property seized ·—*—·— by General Johnston on the Uta expedition for examination and report. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of glee United Joseph C- Irwin States of America in Congress assembled, That the claims ot: oseph C. •*CC‘X P &C Irwin and Company and C. A. Perry and Company, freighters, for Cjai;us°’:£{€Hfd property claimed to have been taken and impressed mto the service of recom-t ofclaimg, the United States in the year eighteen hundred and Efty-seven, by orders of Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston, in command of the Utah expedition, as well as for property alleged to have been sold to the Government, be, and the same are hereby, reierred,with all the papers relating thereto, to the Court of Claims, for adjudication, according to low, on the proofs heretofore presented and such other proofs as may be adduced, and report the same to Congress Approved, July 8, 1886. July 3, 1335_ CHAP. 747.-A11 act to authorize the purchase of a certain tract of land near San Antonio, Texas, and to Brovide for the sale of the old site of Fort Brady, Mmbigan, and for a new site and the construction of suitable buildings thereon'. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United San Antonio, States of America in Gongrccs assembled, That the Secretary of War be, T°¤¤¤· and is, authorized and directed to purchase and to acquire a valid title ` t0S‘;'f;’;:3°°ftY;; to, for the United States, a certain tract of land lying in the county of 0;;,,m; ,,e,,,_ Bexar, in the State of Texas, near the city of San Antonio, consisting of three hundred and ten acres, more or less, and being the same now held by the United States for a drill-ground under a rental contract with Joilnn H. Kampmamx, and dated July iirst, eighteen hundred and eighty- ve. Appropriation Sm:. 2. That in order to make said purchase and to acquire said title the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, upon the order of the Secretary of War, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars, which is hereby appropriated, for the purpose of purchasing and acquiring a valid title to said-tract of land. ' Fort Brady mill- Sm:. 3. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to sell the §;'H‘E ;*§°*";:**‘{)¤é military reservation known as Fort Brady, in the village of Sault Sainte mm: kxcgpuom Marie, in the State of Michigan, except that portion lying north of Water street extended, which shall be reserved for canal and wharf purposes, aud except the plat of ground now occupied as il military cemetery, _1’roperty to no which shall alsobe reserved. In disposing of said property the Secre- *°·* ¤¤<l¤¤l·l¤¤ tary of War shall cause the grounds to be plotted in blocks, streets, ‘ and nlleyg, eorresiponaling as ulenr as may be with the plat of the village o nu i; ainte l nrie., and in ots not exceeding one- uarter of an acre in each, unless with due reference to the requiremgnts of the houses and buildings now located ou said grounds. The Secretary of War shall also cause the lots to be appraised and sold at public or private sale, at _ not less than the appraised value, having first been oilerecl at public !>¤v~·¤·>~¤- sale. The expense of advertising appraisemeut, survey, and sale shall P¤>¤*—·¤l=·- be paid 01120{ tl; proeegls of said sale, and the balance paid into the reusury 0 the nitet tates. Sccrctaryofwiir Sm:. 4. That the Secretary of War is also authorized to purchase §mm Sm Mage, tieieut for fortifications and for garrison pnrposesaud construct thereon Mich., and cou- the necessary buildings, with appurtenances, sufficient for a four comstruci milit my pany military post, to be known as Fort Brady, in accordance with es- £‘;;{h_°°H°*l Fm timates to be prepared by the War Department; and ll sudieiem; sum Api,;.0prmi0¤_ of money, not egcceeding one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of War to comply with the prop,,ym,,_ visions of this act: Provided, That the title to lands authorized to be Title. gm-e1iasedGnuder the iourth section of this not shall be approved by the ttorney- enem.
 * °“l;({; ;'¤°¤l\{ ; grounds in or near the village of Sault Sainte Marie, suitable and suf-