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 FORTY-NIN TH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cus. 362, 363. 1887. 543 exceeding twenty thousand four hundred dollars for the Coast and g1U9tm¤¤t f¤= Geodetic Survey; for the War Department, one hundred and hfty i’“'f‘é'8 ’;P‘u;,•“d‘ thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding twelve thousand dollars ug °° mi shall be for the catalogue of the library of the Surgeon-General’s Office, and not exceeding ten thousand dollars for carrying into effect the appropriations for the Signal Service; for the Navy Department, sixty thousand dollars, including not exceeding twelve thousand dollars for the Hydrographic Office; for the Interior Department, including the Civil Service Commission three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars may be used for rebindiug tractbooks for the General Land Office; for the United States Geological Survey as follows: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the annual report of the Director, eight thousand dollars; for engraving the illustrations necessary for the monographs and bulletins, thirty-nine thousand dollars; forprintingand binding the monographs and bulletins, twenty-one thousand dollars; for engraving for the geological map of the United States, fifty-four thousand dollars; for the Department of Justice, seven thousand dollars; for the Post~0tHce Department one hundred and eighty thousand dollars; for the Agricultural Department, eighteen thousand dollars; for the Supreme Court of the United States, tive thousand dollars; for the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars; for the Court of Claims, fourteen thousand dollars; for the Library of Congress, fifteen thousand dollars; and for the Executive Office, three thousand dollars. And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended in the two first quarters of the iiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the two last- quarters of the iiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters, the une§pended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expen ed. To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the I·¤¤v¤¤ to emlaw granting fifteen days’ annual leave to the employees of the Govern- P1°¥°°°· ment Printing Office, ninety-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. ’ Approved, March 3, 1887. Y CHAP. 363.-An act to convoy to and confirm in the city of Aurora, in the county Mar. 3, 1887. of Kane, and State of Illinois, a small island in Fox River, located within the lim- ·*"-_—*·*’ its of said city. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the right, title, and ownership Aprvrs, Illof the city of Aurora, in Kane County, State of Illinois, to the land herein- F ];*1§,°;’°i:1"”E£ after described are hereby confirmed, and all the right; title, and interest {mad tm ° of the United States to said land are hereby granted and relinquished to said city of Aurora. Said land hereby granted is described as fol- Lmm lows: Island in Fox River, lying and being in the northwest fractional °' quarter of section numbered fifteen, in township thirtyeight north, of range eight east of the third principal meridian, bounded and described as follows, to wit: Beginning at a stone sct in the ground at the northwest corner of the northeast fractional quarter of said section fifteen; thence west, on the north line of said section, five chains and eighty links, to a point on the east bank of Fox River; thence south fifteen degrees and fifteen minutes west, three chains and twenty links across the east branch of Fox River to a point on the north end of island and place of beginning; thence south twenty-four degrees and fifteen minutes east, four chains and eighty-eight links; thence south eighteen degrees and thirty minutes east, hve chains and forty-five links; thence south twelve degrees and thirty minutes east, one chain and forty-four links; thence south one degree and thirty minutes east, two chains and fifty-one links; thence south fifteen degrees and thirty