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 ` 468 SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 220. 1908. m“f*gc'Y pI2g;,';; Sec. 12. That all patents heretofore issued on applications made for cméa valid. title to public lands between June fifth, nineteen hundred and one, and June twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, with either military . bounty land warrants, agricultural college land scrip, or surveyor- ¤¤¤‘*¤*¤ i<¤=·¤¤¤¤ neral’s certificates, be, and the same are hereby, declared valid; and 1°°°u°°d’°i°' giant all such locations, where the ap lications to locate were made between June fifth, nineteen hundred) and one, and June twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, with either military bounty land warrants, agricultural college land scri, or surve or-general’s certificates, and ' upon which patents have notlheen issued? but which may hereafter be a proved for patent by the Department under the ruling in the case ot Roy McDonald, December twentyfrirst, nineteen hundred and seven, are hereby declared legal, and the Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby authorizml and directed to issue patents on all such location which may be approved by him for patent as above Qgggu provided: Prorvided, That they are otherwise in accordance with the ` rules and re lations in such cases made and plrovided. ’ Norm Dum ¤¤<¤ Sec. 13. That all that part of the States of orth and South Dakota S°Q‘i.°.,T’$k5°°;'Z¤q sa. lying within the followingdescribed boundaries, to wit: Commencing · at a point on the boundary line between the States of North and Sout Dakota where the east boundary line of the county of Schnasse intersects said State line, thence due north to a point on the eighth standard parallel north; thence west on said eighth standard paral el north to a gint where the boundary line between the States of North Dakota and ontana intersects the said eighth standard parallel north· thence south on the boundary line between the States of North Dakota and Montana and South Dakota and Montana to a point where the fourth standard pamllel north intersects said State boundary line; thence east on the said fourth standard parallel north to the northeast corner of township sixteen north, of range nine east; thence south along the range line between ranges nine and ten east to a point where the same intersects the third standard parallel north; thence east on said third standard rallel north to a point where the same intersects the western boundarylline of the county of Schnasse; thence north along the western boundary line of said county to a point where the same intersects the fifth standard parallel north; thence east along the said fifth standard pgrallel north to a point where the same intersects the range line tween ranges twenty-three and twenty-four east; thence along said range line to a point where the same intersects the State line between the States of North Dakota and South Dakota; thence west along the said State line to the(p0int of beginning, be, and the same hereby is, constituted a new lan district, to be known as the Lemmon land district; and the United States land office for said district is hereby located cme at Lemmon. at the town of Lemmon, in Butte County. That the President be, and at-mm- Mm whe hereby is, authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent °*’“'°'· of the Senate, a register and a receiver for said land district., and they shall be subject to the same laws and be entitled to the same compensation as is or may be hereafter provided by law in relation to the existing land offices and officers in said State. Feesofreglstem and Sec. 14. That subdivision ten of section twenty-two hundred and “”,§’_ ,,_ thirty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the 3% ¤¤¤*¤d¢¤· same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: iacsen and added. "Tenth. Registers and receivers are allowed jointly at the rate of fifteen cents per hundred words for testimony reduced bv them to writing for claimants in establishing preemption, deserdland, and homestead rights? Ogzes. General Iand Sec. 15. That section four hundred and sixty-one of the Revised nidsee. 461, p. vs, Statutes of the United States, as amended by the Act approved April edY°l·25»P·76·¤¤=°¤d· second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: