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 FOILTY-NINTII ( 7NGlil·]SS. Suss. I. Ons. 7 60462. ISSG. ]4]' m a grant of land in aid of a railroad from Brandon to the Gulf of Mexico, commonly known as the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. Also, so much of chapter forty-one, eleventh Statutes at Large, page Grant mi- railseventeen, approved June third, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, enti— '°“" fm"] E'>`*,"“ tled **An act granting public lands in alternate sections to the State of  'EfQl"°:·:‘;¥ic§;X' Alabama, and so forth/’ as relates to a grant of lands in aid of the con- Rm;. ii, p_11_ ` struction of railroads irom Elyton to the Tennessee River at or near Beard’s Bluff', Alabama. s Also, to aid in the construction of the Memphis and Charleston Rail- Memphis and road, in section six of said act. Clggeiavu EBR- Also, section seven of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and savauéxu and fifty-seven, chapter ninety-nine, eleventh Statutes ut; Large, page one A“”‘“>" R’*m°2‘]· hundred and ninety seven, making a. grant to the State of Alabama in y"]' u’ p' w" aid of the Savannah and Albany Railroad Company, as recited in said section. · Also, so much of chapter forty-two, eleventh Statutes at Large, page Railroad fro m eighteen, entitled “An aqt making a. grant of lands to the State of N°"0¥]°’E”°*°*h.° Louisiana to aid in the construction of railroads in said State," as relates to a railroad from New Orleans to the State line in the direction of miss. ’ Jackson, Mississippi. Vol. 11, p. 1:3. That all rights, titles, and privileges as to any of the public lands All rights, ew., granted or conferred by, through, or under the said several provisions m”°;*r;°Ft;‘db°"° of law be, and they are hereby declared forfeited and determined; that Laid; °;m,;,.,.d all the lands within the terms and scope of said several provisions of to public domain. law be, and they are hereby restored to the public domain: Provided, mm. _ however, That if sales of any of said lands have heretofore been made StS:‘°° "YGU“'*f" by the United States such sales are hereby confirmed. ° °° °°" rm"' Approved, July 10, 1886. L I CHAP. 761.-An act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide u building for July 10, 1886. the use of the United States circuit and district courts of the United States, the post- ———————-— office. and other Government offices at Williamsport, Pennsylvania," and making an additional appropriation therefor. · Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first section of the act Wg5m,,,,,',, entitled “An act to provide a building for the use of the United States Pa. _ _ _ circuit and district courts of the United States, post-office, and other £?b!*° *t!'“ld;*;8- Government offices at Williumsport·, Pennsylvania! approved August cm;::]'i° °°° "` third, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, be, and the same is hereby, v01,22,c1mp,:as1, amended by substituting the words, " two hundred and twenty-tive p.211,¤me¤dcd. thousand dollars" in the place of the words- **0ne hundred thousand dollars; " so that the first section of said act, as amended, shall read, as follows: "shall not exceed the cost of two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, including site, including the cost of any additional ground for site, which the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to purchase if in his judgment necessary? Approved, July 10, 1886. CHAP. 762.-An act authorizing an sduitioual appropriation of twenty-five thou- July 10,1%. sand dollars lor the court-house at Keokuk, Iowa, to make the same tire-prootl -————-—;·· Wlnereas, by an act of Congress approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty tive, the Secretary of t-he Treasury was author- Prcnnnblv. ized to purchase a site for :1 court-house at Keokuk, Iowa, and to erect thereon a building suitable for said purpose, and by an act approved Vol. 23, pn. 320, March third, eighteen hundred and eightyfive, there was appropriated *8*- the sum of one hundred thousand dollars for said purpose; and Whereas said site has been selected and acquired, subject to the conditions of said acts, and the plans and specifications for said building