Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 29.djvu/548

 518 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 213, 214. 1897. second, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and which report and list were communicated to the Senate by the Secretary of the Interior on March eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty, as Senate Executive Document Numbered One hundred and eleven, Forty-sixth Congress, second session, shall be, and the ame are hereby, directed to be granted, released, and relinquished by the United States, in fee simple, to the respective owners of the equitable titles thereto, and to their respective heirs and assigns forever, as fully and completely, in every respect whatever, as could be done by patents issued therefor according to law. d3:l_{,,E¤;*$B§,¤*¢¤ Sec. 2. That nothing contained in this Act shall in any manner qabridge, divest, impair, injure, or prejudice any valid right, title, or interest of any person or persons in or to any portion or part of the lands mentioned in said first section, the true intent of this Act being to relinquish and abandon, grant, give, and concede any and all right, interest, and estate, in law or equity, which the United States is or is supposed to be entitled to in said lands, in favor of all persons, estates, firms, or corporations who would be the true and lawful owners of the · same under the laws of Louisiana, including the laws of prescription, in the absence of the said interest and estate of the United States. Pnfenhtoinsuc- Sec. 3. That the Department of the lnterior shall cause patents to issue for such lands, and such patents shall issue in the name of the original claimant as appears in the list or schedule aforesaid, and when issued shall be held to be for the use and benefit of the true and lawful owners as provided in sections one and two of this Act. Approved, February 10, 1897. in-uq. GBA?. 2 .— A w' g • pmprln ous the su f the Milita muy {oi-.theA:sca1°tye•r e ingp uno tl:IrtietI:roightee1i)I>i‘i1r1i;d:ed and ninety,: s . . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Military_ Academy States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, “m"°*'""‘“°““‘ and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy for I-the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety- eig t: ,,;;,¤;·;j¤€¤* *¤¤*¤b· PERMANENT ESTABLISHMENT. _,,f‘*’ °‘ ¥"°*°“°"'· For pay of seven professors, twenty-three thousand dollars; For pay of one chaplain, two thousand dollars; d Igor pay of one associate professor of mathematics, two thousand 0 ars; · <2=¤1¤¤¤· For pay of cadets. one hundred and seventy-ilve thousand dollars; d Ip all, for permanent establishment, two hundred and two thousand 0 ars. F¤¤¤P¤¥¤•¤·¤i¤¤¤· For extra pay of officers of the Army on detached service at the Military Academy: For pay of one Superintendent of the llnited States Military Acadsiqy (colonel), in addition to pay as major of engineers, one thousand o lars; For one commaudant of cadets (lieutenantcolonel), in addition to pay as captain, not mounted, one thousand two hundred dollars; For pay of one instructor of practical military engineering (major), in addition to pay as captain, mounted, five hundred dollars; For pay of one instructor of ordnance and science of gnnnery (major), in addition to pay as captain, mounted, five hundred dollars; For pay of eight assistant professors (captains), in addition to pay as ilrst lieutenants, not mounted, tour thousand dollars; For pay of four senior instructors of cavalry, artillery, intantry tactic, and ordnance and gnnnery (captains), in addition to pay as first lieutenants, not mounted, two thousand dollars;