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 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. H. Cns. 208-211. 1894. 227 t0 January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, the time within which such proof' may be made in each such case is hereby extended Vol-26. i» ww. to five years from the date of tiling the declaration; and the requirement that the persons iilin g such declarations shall expend the full Yeorly wyment sum of one dollar per acre during each year toward the reclamation of "Sp°”°°d f"18°"‘ the land is hereby suspended for the year eighteen hundred and ninety- four, and such annual expenditure for that year, and the proof thereof, is hereby dispensed with: Provided, That within the period of five Provfsv. years from filing the declaration satisfactory proof be made to the reg- Final *l•=*¢l==¤=·¤·>¤· ister and receiver of the reclamation and cultivation of such land to the extent and cost and in the manner provided by existing law, except as to said year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and- upon the pay- ment to the receiver of the additional sum of one dollar per acre, as provided in existing law, a patent shall issue as therein provided. Approved, August 4, 1894. CHAP. 209.—An Act Establishing a fog signal at Kewaunee, Wisconsin. August 4, 1891 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be established §°"j(§¤•?°%W*¤· f a fog signal at Kewaunee, Wisconsin, at a cost not exceeding five thou- mg gg!.-Him mu °r sand five hundred dollars; and the sum of five thousand five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated for that purpose. _ Approved, August 4, 1894. CHAP. 210.-An Act Authorizing the construction of a light-ship, with fog signal, August .1_1gg4_ to be established to the eastward of Boston Light, Massachusetts, and for the estab- ~·————; lishment of range lights in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the £5>¤{l<>¤~iL(¤¤¤- be Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to construct 1,.u{§ °`“ `P t° a light—ship, with fog signal, to be placed about six nautical miles to the east by south of Boston Light, Massachusetts, at a cost not to exceed seventy thousand dollars; and he is hereby further directed to establish range lights in Boston Harbor, at a cost not to exceed one in.n»mm·.geug1.a.. thousand dollars. Approved, August 4, 1894. CHAP. 211.-An Act To provide for the validation of athdavits made before United August 4. 1804. States Commissioners in all land entries. ""‘ "" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of A merica in Congress assembled, That all entries under the home- rebut lands._ _ stead,prc-eruption, timber-culture, or desert-land law made between May be],?:r;"j§;’ft“,Q*;*;§;_j,§ twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and the date of approval of niouer muama. this Act, and which are based on ahidavits made before a United States court commissioner, instead of a United States circuit court commissioner, as provided by the Act of May twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety (twenty-sixth Statute, one hundred and twenty-one), are V0l.26,p.12l. hereby validated, if no other objection exists; and all final proofs on Final proofs. entries of the classes mentioned made before a United States court commissioner, not a United States circuit court commissioner, between the dates aforesaid will be adjudicated in the same manner as if saidproofs were made before an officer authorized by law to take such_ testimony. · Sec. 2. That all entries under the homestead, pre-emption, timber- __c§t¤;;¤;¤mdl;;j¤Lg V .*1; culture, or desert-land law, based on atiidavits made before any officer m.,.;,