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 390 FIFTY-SECOND oonmmss. sms. 1. ous. 381,382. 1so2. under thesupervision of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall pre pure plates and make therefrom fifty thousand vellum impressions for D*P*¤*¤=¤- diplomas at a. cost not to exceed forty-three thousand dollars. Said medals and diplomas shall be delivered to the World’s Columbian Com- _·1j¤n¤.wm·a¤a um- mission, to be awarded to exhibitors in accordance with the provisions l"b"°”' of said act of Congress approved April twenty fifth, eighteen hundred A1*r*¤v¤‘¤¤¤¤¤· and ninety, and there is hereby appropxiuted, from any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the expenditures authorized by this section; and authority may be granted by the Secretary of the Treasury to the holder of a. medal, properly m2:g’*f,j°”\f:°n*}°8l*;Q*- awarded to him, to have duplicates thereof made at any of the mints umm. y of the United States from gold, or silver, or bronze, at the expense of the person desiring the same. _ A£r£l¤>rri¤¢i¤¤¤ ~·¤ Sec. 4. That it is hereby declared that all appropriations herem made m,h3$Km for, or pertaining to, the World’s Columbian Exposition are made upon ¤¤¤·ky¤ the condition that the said Exposition shall not be opened to the public ou the iirst day of the week, commonly called Sunday; and if the said appropriations be accepted by the corporation of the State of Illinois, known as the World’s Columbian Exposition, upon that condition, it shall be, and it is hereby, made the duty of the World’s Columbian Commission, created by the act of Congress of April twenty fifth, eighteen hundred and uinety,110 make such rules or modification of the h§***°°*°¤*¤¤**°°*°¤· rules of said corporation as shall require the elosin g of the Exposition ' on the said first day of the week commonly called Sunday. 1qo¤.n;1»11¤y arm Sec. 5. That nothing contained in this act shall be construed to °"'°°"”'“"‘“· supersede or in any manner alter or impair the force or validity of the v¤1.2c, p. er. provisions of section fifteen of the act of Congress approved anno Domini April twenty fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety. Approved, August 5, 1892. Angnn GHAP. 382.--An act for 1; relief of settlers u n certain ands in the Stat of North Dakota and South Igaekota. Im 1 es Whereas under the rulings of the General Land Office the extension nombre. into Dakota Territory, now States of North Dakota and South Dakota, of the limits of the grants of land made by Congress to aid in the construction of the several lines of railroad now owned by the Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company was denied, and in consequence of said rulings lands within the limits of the said grants in the said States have been claimed. settled upon, occupied, and improved by numerous persons in good faith under color of title or of right to do so derived from the various laws of the United States relating to the public domain, and are now claimed by them, their heirs, or assigns, und muny of said lands have actually been patented to such occupants or to their gmntors; and Whereas under recent construction of said grants the said occupants, improvers, or purchasers. are liable to be evicted from their holdings: Now, thereibre, for the purpose of relieving the said occupants. im. provers, and purchasers of the said granted lands trom the hardship of being now deprived of the same under the circumstances aforesaid, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Raspresenmtives of the United nlgagagygllggmim States o{»Amer€0a in Congress assembler!. That the Secretary of the In- W., o.,,]:,,, terior s l1, as soon as conveniently may be done, cause to be prepared us: enum emma and delivered to the said railway company a list of the several tracts Q§ g’,\‘{§"'{:°{; ff;} which have been purchased, claimed, occupied. and improved, as stated nisheel. in section two of this act, and are now claimed by such purchasers or oc- . cupants, their heirs or assigns, according to the smallest Government www com subdivisions. Within a reasonable time after the receipt by the said ,,H,,,m,,_ Y l"" milvmy company of the said hst, it shall execute under its corporate · seal and deliver to the Secretary of the Interior its deed of conveyance