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 SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cris. 194, 195. 1917. 1587 CHA.P.194.—AnActProvi for he ref d du c ted flax- - mmh 471917- tory machines, parts, and accegbihis iniponedudnbgdquetdiiy t•d1§.cugustmlifth, xiiinrfdliaegan [S' *38**] hundred and nine, and prior to January first, nineteen hundred and eleven. [Private, Nc. 216.} Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re esentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Tght the Secretary of the p,,];,§$°“ “"°“° °°‘“` Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to ay, out Rshmd °*·*¤*i¤¤· of any money in the Treas not otherwise appropriated? to the Linen Thread Company, oilrilumber Ninety-six Franklin Street, New York City, the sum of $23,239.35, being the amount of duties collected on flax- reparatory machines, parts thereof, and accessories thereto imported) subsequently to August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, and prior to January first, nineteen hundred and eleven. Approved, March 4, 1917. CHAP. 195.-An Act For the relief of Guy A. Richards, Jess L. Robbins, Isaac M¤¤jS¤¤7%g917- M. c. Grimes, William L. n-vine, and David cx. Be it enacted the Senate and House o Representatives of the United States of Ameri;/a in Congress assembled; That Guy A. Richards, of 0,,(f,°,§["‘Rl°h“°S°“° Cambridge, Nebraska; Jesse L. Robbins, of Lamont, Nebraska· ,0§;>d¤*°,g*°,°;ju°*{f{*:‘;fg‘_ Isaac M. C. Grimes, of Lamont, Nebraska; Vlhlliam L. Irvine, of nmsaacucrs. Witherbee, Colorado; and David Cox, of Holyoke, Colorado, who made entries under the homestead laws in accor ance with the official plat of survey approved November twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, o public lands shown by said plat to be a lpart of township five north, range forty-two west of the sixth p c.i}{)al meridian, and prior to the resuzvey of aid township evidenced y plat approved January thirteenth, nineteen hundred and fifteexk which resurve and plat thereof show the nonexistenee of the lan as entered and dwcnbed by said parties, be, and they are hereby, authorized to make individual selections, within one year from the date of approval of this Act, of unappropriated, surveyed, nonmineral public lan, in area approximately equa to that entered by them and Sh(swD°°t·1i1i°mSfmmgr ti iaauaam tau ·h .1 ¤¤·=¤¤¤ ¤¤¤ no. 2. at u on orm re ent o t an ° “‘°“ claim asserted unliler said original homldstead entries andlg making ‘°rmu3Mm' em proof satisfactory to the Commissioner of the General Land Office of having so complied with the requirements of the homestead laws in connection wit their original entries as would have entitled them to patents therefor, patent shall issue for the land selected: Pro- (€’[g‘@§_,, ngdam vided, That if any of said parties is unable to show that he had earned etc- ' title to the land formerly entered he shall perfect said selection as a homestead and receive credit for residence and improvements had in connection with such former entry. _ Sec. 3. That the right of selection hereby granted shall not be R'8*“”°*‘“*¥"“*"°· assignable, but must be exercised by the said parties in person or, PWM in case of death, by or in behalf of the decedent’s heirs: Provzkted, camaémrnauc. That the land selected shall be of similar character to that actually claimed and occupied by the said parties under their original entries, but if selection is made of lands designated as subject to entry under au§jg°e§_·*°*S*¤¤ °¤“>' the stock-raising homestead Act approved December twenty-niuth, 4¤a,p.se2. nineteen hundred and sixteen, dou le the area embraced by said Mmm,mw"d_ original entries may be selected: Provided further, That the selections hereby authorized may be made subject to existing laws relating to surface entry, with reservation of minerals to the United States. Approved, March 4, 1917. 102620°—-vor. 39-rr 2—26