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 392 FORTTNINTH cozmrmss. sms. 11. ons. 120, 123. 1887. said New Orleans Pacidc Railroad Company, through the action ofa majority of its stockholders, has accepted the provisions of this act, and is satisiied that said company has accepted and agreed to discharge all the duties and ogigatiogsgmposed npc;] the Ne? ](grle::1s,‘l3a1ton litlouge and Vicksburg ailroa ornpany y e act 0 arc _ rr, ew teen Vo;. 16, p. 573. hundred and seventy-one, entitled '·‘An act to incorporate the°Texas Pacino Railroad Company, and to aid in the construction of its road, and for other purposes! Secretary or In- Sec. 4. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior, in
 * °*i°'*°¤*°k°’°l°° issuing patents for the lands conveyed herein, to establish such rules
 * ?1;’;;`f;°§§t;f;:fg and regulations as to enable all persons who on the first day of Decemmm, ber, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, were in the actual occupancy of

any of the lands to which the New Orleans Pacific Railroad Company is entitled under the provisions of this act, and who are of the description of persons entitled to make homestead or preemption entry on public lands under the general lawsof the United States, to secure titles to the lands so held by them, not to exceed in quantity one quartersecéion and not lefs tpan one·six;eelr1tl_bof sgdseéztion, on the paymetnt to sai company, in aw 'money 0 the nit tates at the rate o two dollars per acre, for the lands so occupied, at one-third cash,_and balance ‘ in such equal annual installments as the Secretary of the Interior shall by regulations prescribe; it being the intention of this section to pro- , tictlghe selt£e1rsBup)on said lands, and todgive bindling force and efect to t e anc — - o inson agreement ma e wit the ew Orleans Paciiic gimmrg $11 Jhe flourtgidayfofhJ:g1euary, eigl;_te1en lrundred and eighty- o an e int eo ceo the cretaryo the nterior. Begnrnrons to Size. 5. That the Secretary of the Interior shall make all needful b¤ P=¤¤<=¤b<;d la? rules and regulations for carrying this act into eifect, and shall have ?;EG‘$’:;Y ° t _° theliiuthority to dgect, if he shall thinkcpropier, iand shall so declare in ` su regulations, at payments may ma e or the lands held and ’ occupied under the fourth section of this act in not exceeding four equal annual installments from the date of sale, with interest thereon not to exceed six per centum per annum. drazenu conmm- Séacbgg That etgetpatenés for the lands cpluyleyed herein tlhat have al- ¢ - rea y n rssu 0 said company an e same are ere y, coniirmed; but the Secretary of the Interior is hereby fully authorized and instructed to apply the provisions of the second, third, fourth, and ilfth sections of this act to any of said lands that have been so patented, and to protect any and all settlers on said lands in all their rights under the said sections of this act. Approved, February 8, 1887. ~ _ _ CHAP. 123.-An el sn acan ein l of rmtiable goods, nnsiirgadgspummsf alpperdvgd Jhir;hwdtl1?.3htt:shrhln:rld0mrEl Clg Q'. Be it enacted_11y the Senate and House of Representatives of the U nited Bridgeport,Conn. State: 0] America on Congress assembled, ’ hat section seven of the gennmpggm eral statutes of the United States, chapter one hundredand ninety, ap. mmm of dummc proved June tenthterghteen hundred and eighty, being “An act to good, extended t0_ amend the statutes rn relation to immediate transportation of dntiable vcr. 21, p. 174. goods, and for other purposes ” (Statutes at Large, volume twenty-one, page one hundred and seventy-four), be, and the same is hereby,amended by mserting rn lme four of said section seven, after the word “Middletown", the_word “Bridgeport·” so-that the privileges of immediate transportation of dutiable goods extended by said act to certain cities therein named shall be also extended to said Bridgeport, Connecticut. Approved, February 9, 1887.