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 Whereas the Government of the United States having occupied a large portion of the said land for the purpose of a military post, and having expended a large amount of public money to establish and maintain a military reservation thereon, notwithstanding the fact that the Mission of Saint James claimed the title thereto, under the provisions of the Acts of Congress of August fourteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and March second, eighteen hundred and fifty-three: Therefore

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be aid, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; to the Right Reverend Bishop of Nesqually, in the State of Washington, as trustee of the said Mission of Saint James, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars upon filing in the proper Department a release to the United States, to be approved by the Attorney—General, of all claim to the land embraced within the limits of the military reservation at Vancouver, in the State of Washington, and of all claim for damages for destruction of property on or near the said land by the United States troops or vounteers or Indians at any time anterior to the date of said release.
 * date = March 3, 1905}}