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 1458 SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Srzss. II. Cris. 36, 49, 52. 1919, 1920. the Arundel Sand and Gravel Company in favor of the United States u on the same principles and measures of liability as .111 like cases in agmiralty between private parties and with the same rights of appeal: ,{’,Q,‘;_§;·;°’,;tc Pmvided, That such notice of the suit shall be given to the Attorney ' General of the United States as may be provided by order of the said court, and it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to cause the United States attorney in such district to appear and defend for the s,,§‘fmm°“°°m°"* °‘ United States: Pr0»mki’ed further, That said suit shall be brouiliist and commenced within four months of the date of the passage of t Act. Approved, December 31, 1919. Jaflflffflid  CHAP. 49.—An Act Granting to certain claimants the preferential right to pur-  chase certain alleged public lands in the State of Arkansas, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United ,é;£¤l=},g¤¤ L¤k¤" States of America in Omtézvress assemble, That G. W. House, _Oliver Ycnériasiies given Douglas, J. W. Rhodes,. K. Harrison, and J. W. Rhodes, ]unior, {,§§,§ ,,E,‘,§,{’§,§,§’,,,,§S°* named in the decree of the Chaucer Court of Mississippi County, Arkansas, Osceola district, at the February, 1913, term thereof, as the same appears in the records of said court, book seven, pages forty- three to fifty-four, inclusive, their heirs, administrators, or assigns, are hereby granted a preferential right at any time within ninety days after the passmip of this Act and the filing of the lats of said corrected surve in the United States land office in Little Rock, Ar·- kansas, to purchase said lands of the United States and to pay for the same at the rate of $1.25 per acre in accordance with the divisions Prom and allotments to said person or ipersons, respectively, named in said ,,,,,,,0,;,,,, ,,,b,,,m,,_ decree: Prmnded, Ytowever, That the parcel of land awarded to said ¤¤•==,¤¤¤- person or persons in such decree does not conform to the legal descrrptron o lands as returned by the corrected survey, then the erson to_whom the major portion of any leial subdivision was awardjed by said decree may purchase all of suc subdivision from the United States at the price herem named, and said purchase shall be m trust for that portion of land awarded under sard decree to the person named therein, his heirs or_grantees, and such purchaser, upon the issuance of said patent to him, shall forthwith convey to said cestui qui trust such land as was awarded by the terms· of said decree to said person upon payment by said cestrn qui trust of his proportionate , _ part of the purc ase price and entry fees for the same. Ds=¤¤¤¤·>¤ <>¤¤¤<1S· Said lands herem authorized to e purchased are all that part of said sections twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, and thirty-two, township eleven north, range ten east, fifth grinci al meridian, Mississip i County, Arkansas, not included as lan in the survey made in Fefi- }16”§3'.tt$S’$@,Yil`§ilé,“i2S·<‘t’Zi%‘33§°€a`i%°? th" t°“”””“P Pm “P*"°"‘*°‘ Approved, January 17, 1920. Ianu Z3 19*20. __4j¥}?g;Q§3;;_ CHAP. 52.—An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasurv to adjust the lP¤v¤»w, N1- 22-l geérpiilcg the contract for the sale of the old post—o£lice property in New Haven, Con- _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re esentatives 0 the United i‘,g‘g’,,,§§§g,0§ggg; States of {America in Congress assembled, Tfiiit the Secretary of the g§Sit0g;g;8;s{gwg§·¤ia Treasury rs hereby authorized, in his discretion and with the consent var 36, p_ 6Q4_ of the contractors, to modify and readjust the terms of the contract for the sale of the old post—office property in New Haven, Connecticut, entered into Marc 13, 1917, in suc manner as he ma deem equrtable and just, if he shall determine that said contract has be-