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 FIFTY-FOU BTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cris. 315, 316. 1896. 245 loss of or injury to books, and to establish all other needful rules and _ regulations ior the management of the library as the said board shall A deem proper. The said board of trustees shall appoint a librarian to J·i¤¤¤i¤¤· ¤*<=- have the care and superintendence of said library, who hall be responsible to the board of trustees for the impartial enforcement of all rules and regulations lawfully established in relation to said library. The said librarian shall appoint such assistants as the board shall deem necessary to the proper conduct of the library. The said board of library Annual mm. trustees shall make an annual report to the Commi : sioners of the District of Columbia relative to the management of the said library. Sec. 5. That said library shall be located in some convenient place in I·<>¤¤¢i¤¤· the city of Washington to be designated by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia upon the recommendation of the trustees of said library : Provided, That in any municipal building to be hereafter erected {,":{f,j;°m,d,“ in said District suitable provision shall be made for said library and g` reading room sufficient to accommodate not less than one hundred thousand volumes. Approved, June 3, 1896. CHAP. 316.-An Act For the relief of settlers on the Northern Pacino Railroad June 3, 1896. indemnity lands. { Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United rubiicimn. States of America in Congress assembled, That those persons, their heirs, PE§f§L°§§§§u1§2§§‘§,',f{ or legal representatives, who, between the fifteenth day of August, anno my gra¤¤.Mi¤¤•»¤¤t=·. Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and the first day of J anu· ”}`,,,°.K{,`?,,f'£‘§f,t$’Z,'§fi“ ary, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, settled upon and made iinal proof and entry, under the homestead or preemption laws, ‘ of lands within the so-called second indemnity belt of the Northern Pacino Railway C0mpany’s grant in the State of Minnesota, which entries were afterwards, without their fault, canceled, upon establishing these facts before the register and receiver of the local land ofnce, in suchmode and under such rules as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, shall be allowed to make final homestead entry, and receive a patent therefor, of a quantity of land of any of the unappropriated public lands of the United States subject to homestead entry, equal in acreage to the land proved up and entered in the said second indemnity belt, as aforesaid, without being required to make any settlement or improvement upon or cultivation of such land so entered prior to such entry; and those persons, their heirs or legal nutwms for orrepresentatives, who, within the period aforesaid for the space of six *"°' "°‘ °°"‘*"°"‘*· months settled upon, improved, and cultivated any of said indemnity lands with a view of entering the same under the homestead or preemption laws, being competent to make such entries, and who were not permitted to make such entries, upon establishing these facts before the register and receiver of the local land office, in such mode and under such rules as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, shall be allowed to enter under the homestead laws of the United States a quantity of land of the unappropriated public lands of the United States, subject to homestead entry, equal in amount to the land settled upon, improved, and cultivated, as aforesaid, and under the homestead entry so made, shall, when making proof and nnal entry, receive credit for the settlement, improvement, and cultivation made upon the said indemnity land as aforesaid: Provided, That the law in force in eighteen hundred and ggmmtious F eighty-nine governing the commutation of homestead entries shall apply mama. P° to the commutation of entries under this section. _ Sec. 2. That those who are entitled to make the homestead entries wf*”,j:,j'{ °“ C“PP°‘ prescribed in the preceding section may make such entries of any of the agricultural lands embraced in the provisions of an Act entitled v°u'°"°“‘ “An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota,” approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred