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 76 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cns. 54, 56, 57. 1888. AFB!. ill. CHAP. 54.-An act to amend section four hundred and sixty-one of the Revised U-"'; Statutes, regulating fees for exemplifications of land patents, and for other purposes- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the run, cena um United States of America. lin Congress assemble, That section four °“°" hundred and sixty-one of the Revised Statutes be, and is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: R-8-·••¤-4¤» v-78. "S11:c. 461. All exeinplihcations of patents or papers on file or of °'°°”°°d' record in the General Land Office which may be required by parties interested shall be furnished by the Commissioner upon the payment- ' thirty cents each for photolithographed copies of township plats or diagrams, unveriiied, not to exceed ten copies to any one person, and twenty-five cents each for all copies in excess of ten, with an additiplnal sun gg01E. dollgfltgr (1;h(eHCommission(>r’s cerétigcate op verica 'on, wit e ener n cesea ; an one 0 the employees of the office shall be designated by the Commissioner as the receiving clerk, and the mount so received shall, under the direction of the Commissioner, be paid into the Treasury; but fees shall not be demanded for such authenticated copies as maybe required by the officers of any branch of the Government, nor for such unverified copies as the Commissioner, in his discretion, may deem proper to furnish." Approved, April 2, 1888. All-n;,;¤_ CHAP. 56:——A.n act for the relief of importers of animals for breeding --—-——;-· poses in certain cases. Be it enacted by the  and House of Re£·rese·ntati·ves of the puma., mmm United States of America. in Congress assemb d, That the Secre- nnumuma. to remxtto arg and  firms or persons, who shall have, prior to the pagageotd actéiin gopdhfaiph, and 11}) compliance with ppc decisnons an regula ons o e reasurv e art t,' - ported into the United States animals for bre<—itlin,glrphlrpclsli1;(i1ilrh}etl1I]e1r or thepmporterslpwn uslpapr for sale, all duties, if any shall have accru, u n suc impo ions. mmguums Sec. 2. YS all actions now pending in behalf of, and in the courts 0f, the United States for the recovery of any duty or duties upon the importation of animals heretofore made or the purposes afore— said, and in accordance with said decisions and regulations, such remission of duties by the Secretary of the Treasury, or the fact, when established by competent evi ence, that such animals were imported by the defendant or defendants for breedin urposes, whether for such use by the importers or for sale, shag Sb a suincient defense in any suc action. Approved, April 4, 1888. Ap-a4, nm. 5'l.—An_ act ghtstggtlgrliock   Alexandria Railway com- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives o the use R¤I€ku•¤d United States of Ajmerivp in Congress assembled, That the léttle $:·“°“““}“w!‘b,‘,§}{ Rock 8X1dt.?]8Xg]1?l’18 l§a1{waHICompany in Arkansas and Louisiana, mms, Am a corpora on u y an y orgamzpd and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the sa1d States, its successors or assigns, be, and is hereby, authorized to construct and maintain a bridge, and. approaches thereto, over the Ouachita River, in Union County, in. t e State of Arkansas near  at the point where said comwg 11113 of railway as p1‘0]60t6d GTOSSBS _Said river; and also a. ri, and approaches thereto, over the Saline River, in the State
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