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 684 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 180, 201, 202. 1889. into the Union, the Senators and Representativesshall be entitled to be admitted to seats in Congress, and to all the rights and privileges of Senators and Representatives of other States in the Congress of the United States; and the officers of the State governments formed in pursuance of said constitutions, as provided by the constitutional conventions, shall proceed to exercise all the functionsof such State offi- Eristinz laws cers; and all laws in force made by said Territories, at the time of their admission into the Union, shal be in force in said States, except as modified or changed by this act or by the constitutions of the States, res ectivel. . B*°P°°‘ P*'°'***°¤· Slim. 25. fhat all acts or arts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act, whether passed) by the legislatures of said Territories or by Congress, are hereby repealed. . Approved, February 22, 1889. February %, 1889. CHAP. 201.-An act granting the title of the United States in certain lands to the "H"""" county of Randolph and State of Illinois, on certain conditions. Be it enacted by the Senate and House og Representatires of the mR‘“"°‘**‘ °°“”°’· United States of America in Congress assem Zed, That all right, title, P¤b1i¤1¤¤¤¤zr¤¤¢¤<i and interest of the United States in and to all lands in the Mississippi °°’ bottom, between the line of bluds and the Mississippi River, in the county of Randolph and State of Illinois, be, an the same are P"'”"?"°·’· hereby, anted to the said county of Randolph: Provided, That the legairauthorities of said county, on the discovery of any such Survey- lands within said boundaries, shall have the same surveyed at the expense of said county, and file plats of said surveys with the Commissioner of the General Land Office, at Washington, District of Columbia. If, upon examination by said Commissioner, it shall appear that the tit e of the United States has not heretofore been _ alienated in any tract shown on said plat or plats, he shall so notify i*¤1‘<>h¤S¤- the authorities of said county; and upon ayment by the authorities of said county into the Treasury of the Uliiited States of the sum of . one dollar and twenty-five cents for every acre shown on said plat or plats, it shall be the duty of said Commissioner of the General i P¤¤*¤*¤· Land Office to prepare and have executed patents for every tract so _ paid for, and to deliver the same on application to the legal authorm’;’QQ§,{f’ "€"‘“ “°” ities of said county: Providedfurther, hat nothin in this act shall be so construed as to include any accretions former? to lands bordering on the Mississippi River an owned by private individuals. Approved, February 23, 1889. February gg_ 1g8g_ CHAP. 202.-An act grantin the right of way to the Yankton and Missouri — ——-—»——-—-—~ Valley Railway Company through the Yankton Indian Reservation in Dakota. _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the m",;,?,'“{P§'{8y“}‘,‘},,1,”$,Q”,I United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Yankton Engg? xpggigrréteg and Missouri alley Railway Company, a corporation duly organized v5,,;,,,,,, 1,}];,,, R“§, under the laws of the Territory of Dakota, its successors or assigns, · ¤"¤°*°¤i mk are hereby invested and empowered with the right of locating, constructing. owning, equipping, operating, using, and maintaining a railway, telegraph, and telephone line through the Yankton Indian i·¤¤¤¤<>¤· Reservation in said Territory, beginning at any point to be selected by said railway company on the east line of said reservation between the northeast corner thereof and a point one mile south of the junction of the west fork of Choteau Creek with the east fork thereof, and running thence westerl or northwesterly through said reservation, ' but at no point farther than fifteen miles to the south of the northernly Pf<¤·’i¤>- boundary thereof: Provided, That if said right of way be so located