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 SIXTX-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cris. 437, 438. 1916. 723 as may have beeniixed by law for such lands, together with the usual fees and commissions charged in entry of like lands imder the homestead laws. But purchasers at a sale of unentered lands shall have L”'"°°°°“‘ the (pualification of homestead entigpien, and not more than one hun red and sixty acres of such lan shall be sold to any one purchaser under the provisions of this Act. This limitation shall not ¤.pS§? °° S°”*t° °" apply to sales to the State, but shall a ply to purchases from the State of unentered lands bid m for the Slizate. Any art of the pur- E, . chase money arising from_the sale of any lands in tgie manner and ¤u¤$$¤°¤¤d`l¤s2i£ for the purposes provided in this Act which shall be in excess of the ""““‘°"““°°· °‘°· drainage chargles then delmqluent shall be paid to and used by the county in whic such land is ocated for the urpose of maintenance, improving, and extending such drainage works within the area benefited by the drainage project in which such land shall have been assessed for_ such drain e charge." That section six of saiigl Act be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: "Sr:c. 6. That any_ entered lands sold in the manner and for the ,,,P *}‘},{,°,,*;“$,? purposes mentioned in this Act may be patented to the purchaser Pggygm G°*’¤¤=·=¤¤¤¤ thereof at any time after the expiration o the period of redem tion pvoi. ais, p. 170, provided for in the drainage laws under which it may be sold (iihere ""‘“‘°°°‘ aving been no_ redemption) upon the payment to the receiver of the fees and commissions and the price mentioned in the preceding section, or so much thereof as has not already been paid by the entryman; _ and if the sum received at any such sale shall be in excess of the pay- D“"°"' °'°‘°°”· ments herein required and of the drainage assessments and cost of the sale, such excess shall be paid to the prpper county officer for the _ benefit of and payment to the entryman. at unless the purchasers ,,§ of unentered lands shall, within ninety days after the sale provided dmior in section three, pay to the proper receiver the fees, commissions, and purchase price to which the nited States may be entitled, as provided in section five, and unless the purchasers of entered lands shall, within ninety days after the right of redemption has expired, make like pa ents, as provided for ID this section, any person hav- ,,,,*}§E;*$,,‘f'S“l’°°‘*“°"‘ ing the qualiiicliitions of a homestead entrymen may pay to the proper receiver for not more than one hundred and sixty acres of land for which such payment has not been made: First, the unpaid fees, com- P"""""°°°°°‘“°d° missions, and purchase price to which the United States may then be entitled; and, second, the sum due at the sale for dramagle charges; and, in addition thereto, if bid in by the State, interest on the amount bid by the State at the rate of seven per centum_per annum from the date of such sale, and thereupon the person making such payment - shall become subro ated to the rights o such purchaser to receive a D of patent for said lancg When any payment is made to effect such sub-  ""'“'° rogation the receiver shall transmit to the_treasurer of the county where the land is situated the amount paid for drainage charges, together with the interest paid thereon." Approved, September 5, 1916. mber, 9 CHAP. 438.-An Act Authorizing the Kansas City and Memprhis Railway and  R.10;5l.116' Bridge Company to make settlement with Crittenden County, kansas, and for  other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives M the United mssssppr mm, States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War xmas Reiley sag is hereby authorized and empowered to release the Kansas City and };£,§3{,“c,mP§,?§ ,,,, Memphis Railway and Bridge Company, a corporation, from the duty Lic bg; Etsy; new imposed u on it by the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the P11.l;,T€.|lI\. ’ construction ofp a bridge across the Mississippi River at Memphis ,¤Y,‘}l£·,},’;“,’§”;dY“· Tennessee/’ approved April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and