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 I l46 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cns. 795-799. 1888. time required by existing statutes, and improved and cultivated the same; and _ _ Whereas it further appears that the said tract of land was patented to the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad at a time subsequent to said homestead entry, and sold by said railroad company to other parties: Therefore, _ _ _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives x the {L? Efgf m,,, United States cff America in Congress assembled, That the said. H. homestead 1¤<>¤¢i<>¤- Tibbits, orhis egal representatives, is hereby authorized to locate one hundred and sixty acres of any of the public lands, subject to private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, of the United States; and patent shall issue to him or his assignees as in other cases of a like · nature. Approved, August S, 1888. August B. 1888- CHAP. 796.——A.n act for the relief of Caroline T. Cockle. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the W:1*;¤I$tT;b0¤¢¤°- United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of yone hundred and ninety-nine dollars and eighty cents be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to reimburse Caroline T. Cockle, executrix of Washington Cockle, late postmaster at Peoria, Illinois, for money expended for lighting the Peoria post-office during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four. ` Approved, August 8, 1888. August 8, 1®· CHAP. 797.-;An act for the relief of James O’Bl'10l1. . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the {$3% United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary `of the Treasury be, and is hereby. authorized and directed, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro riated to pay to James O’Brien, late a dgputy collector of the first Tllannessee district, the sum of two hundr and ten dollars and ten cents, the amount paid by him under the direction of the collector in suppressing illicit istilleries in said district, as is fully shown by the records in the Internal Revenue Office. Approved, August 8, 1888. Auzust 8. 1868- CHAP. 798.—An act for the relief of C. L. Wilson. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re resentatives of the g;€¥5,:" mS United States of America in Congress assembled, 'lqiat the Postmasterer. · General be. and he is hereby, authorized and directed to credit the account of C. L. YV11s0n, post-master at Meilford, Ellis County, Texas, with the sum of fifty dollars, for money lost in transit. Approved, August 8, 1888. ~_£¤_gnsEs,1HB. CHAP. 799.-An act for the relief of the Southern Illinois Normal University. _rBe it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatires of the S¤¤¢h•¤r;¤_ ¤1§¤¤f¤ Cnzted States of America in Con ress assembled. That the Secre- Norniallnnvemity. _ . g _ . _ new 0;, tar) of War be._ and he is hereby,.author1zed and directed to relieve the Southern IIl1no1s_l\ ormal Umversrty, at Carbondale, Illinois, from all money responsibility for so much of the ordnance and ordnance