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 FIFTIETH JONGRESS. Sisss. II. CHS. 394, 395. 1889. 877 if any of them refuse to attend, he may then summon or call others _ immediately to make up the number of eighteen. Each party shall have the right. in person or by attorney or agent, if present at the time. to strike off three. and the marshal shall strike off such as shall not be stricken off by the parties until the number shall be reduced ’to twelve, who shall be a `ury. _ Sec. 11. That the marshal shall then administer an oath or aiiirma- A¤S=*=*=‘==*¤€¤¤¤f Y¤*¤¤ tion to every person of the jury that he will impartially and to the and dm°g°S umu"' best of his skill and judgment value the land or other propertv recmired by the corporation, and also, if the same be land required for t e construction of the said railroad or work, the damage which the owner will sustain, if any, by the taking-of the land for such use. The jury shall accordingly inquire of such value and damage and make report thereof in writing, to be signed by a majority of them all, and setting forth in case of land the boundaries of the land and the estate, interest, or use to be taken by the corporation. Such inquisition and report shall be returned by the marshal to the clerk of the circuit court of the District of Columbia. Sec. 15. That such inquisition and report shall be confirmed b such mfgf“"'““"°” ">’ “*° court unless good cause be shown to the contrary, and when conhrmed ' shall be recorded by the clerk of said court; but for cause the court may set it aside and order another inquisition, or more than one, from time to time, to be conducted in like manner as the iirst and with like effect until an inquisition and report shall be confirmed by the court. Upon such coniirmation of the first or any subsequent inquisition Progeny to vest in and report, and upon payment of the amount fixed in the inquisition §‘$§',§’§§}“'°“ °“ p°""" to be paid by the corporation, either to the owner or in court, as the court shall order, the said corporation shall be entitled to the property or such estate, interest, or use as shall have been valued and described in the inquisition and report, for the purposes hereinbefore specified; and the corporation sha have the right to take away for its own use any material so valued. Sec. 16. That Congress reserves to itself the right to alter or repeal Anwvdmerf this act. ’ Approved, March 2, 1889. CHAP. 395.-An act to restore to thevpublic domain and to regulate the sale and _§°'”P ?·]§°;___ dmposition of certain lands east of the i ississippi River in the State of Louisiana. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the __ · United States of Ame*r·ica» In C'ongr‘esS assembled. That all lam s ly- }j;{{j{f{::f},_:, mlm ing in the rear of eight * arpents from and east of the Mississippi p¤¤¤»u¤·¤<>¤¤·¤¤·¤. River and south of the iiayou Manchac H.11|l.ADllt9 Rive1·. within the limits of townships eight and nine south. of ranges one, two, three, or four east, and township ten south of ranges two. three, and four east, in the late southeastern district in the State of Louisiana. which lands have been reserved from sale because claimed to be embraced within certain French or Spanish land grants, but which have been, or ma hereafter be, decided by the courts of the United States not to be liegally embraced within any such land grants claimed to have been granted by the French or Spanish Governments within the said limits, shall be restored to the public domain and shall be surveyed; surveys. and that so soon as said surveys shall have been made, all persons who have in good faith settled upon said lands within the limits of said townships at the time of the passage of this act, and who occupy the same, shall be entitled to enter the same, not exceeding one hundred and sixt acres each, under the provisions of the homestead Homestead eutrim. laws, and shalltbe admitted to make their proofs and complete their titles in the same manner as if the said reservation, because of said grants claimed, had not been made; and all lands embraced within said townships not covered by actual settlers shall be subject to