owner: Provided, That this act shall not apply where there is a valid written agreement subsisting, by virtue of which such captain would be entitled to possession, nor in any case where a captain has possession as part owner, obtained before the passage of this act.

APPROVED, April 9, 1872.

April 9, 1872. CHAP. XCI.- An Act to settle and quiet the Titles to Lands along the Boundary Line between the States of Georgia and Florida.

Titles to certain lands in Georgia and Florida, so far as derived from the United States, confirmed.

April 12, 1872. [Supplementary act, 1873, ch. 292. Post, p. 612.]

Right of way granted to the Portland, Dalles, and Salt Lake

Railroad Co. for

railroad and tele

graph, with land for depots, &c.

Locations for

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the titles to all lands lying south of the line dividing the States of Georgia and Florida, known as the Orr and Whitner line, lately established as the true boundary between said States, and north of the line run by Georgia, known as the Watson line, being all the lands lying between said lines, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed, so far as the United States has title thereto, in the present owners deriving titles from the State of Georgia.

APPROVED, April 9, 1872.

CHAP. XCVI. An Act granting the Right of Way through the public Lands for the
Construction of a Railroad from Great Salt Lake to Portland, Oregon.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of aiding in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from Portland, in the State of Oregon, by the way of Dalles city, to some suitable point on the Union Pacific or Central Pacific railroad in the vicinity of Salt Lake, not further east than Green river, with a branch from a suitable point west of the Blue mountains to a suitable point in Walla-Walla valley, there are hereby granted to the Portland, Dalles, and Salt Lake Railroad Company, organized under articles of incorporation filed in the office of the secretary of state of Oregon on the twenty-fifth day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and to their successors and assigns, a strip of land one hundred feet wide on each side of the centre line of said road, and the necessary lands for depots, stations, side-tracks, and other needful uses in operating said road and telegraph, not exceeding forty acres at any one place: Provided, That the locations for depots, stations, and sidetracks shall not exceed for the whole line of said road more than one location of forty acres for every ten miles of the same, and when made upon surveyed lands shall conform to the government surveys thereof. SEC. 2. That said company shall, within six months after the location of section of twenty miles or more of their said road, if the same be any upon surveyed land, and if upon unsurveyed land, then within six months after the survey thereof by the United States, file a plat of such located section, together with proof thereof, with the register of the land office for the district wherein said located section may be situated, and upon approval thereof the same shall be noted upon the township plats in said office, and thereafter all lands over which the said line of road shall pass shall be sold, located, or disposed of by the United States, subject to such Road when to right of way so located as aforesaid: Provided, That the line of said road shall be located within three years after the passage of this act: And completed. provided further, That said road shall be completed within ten years thereafter.

depots, &c., not to exceed, &c.

Plat of located section, &c., to be filed within, &c.

be located and

APPROVED, April 12, 1872.

April 13, 1872. CHAP. XCIX. - An Act to change the Time for holding the Spring Term of the United

Time of holding the United

States Circuit and District courts at Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That instead of the time now provided for in the act approved February first, eighteen hundred and

Va.

seventy-two, "to change the times for holding circuit and district courts States courts at of the United States for western district of Virginia," for holding the Harrisonburg, spring term at Harrisonburg, in that State, said courts shall be held thereat on the Tuesday after the first Monday in May in each year. APPROVED, April 13, 1872.

CHAP. CII. — An Act for the Relief of the Officers and Crew of the United States Steamer
Kearsarge."

1872, ch. 9. Ante, p. 28.

April 17, 1872.

to

1864, ch. 174, § 11. Vol. xiii. p. 310. See Post,

p. 352.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy The estimated be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay, out of money here- value of the after to be appropriated, to Rear Admiral John A. Winslow, and the offi- "Alabama be paid to the cers and crew belonging to the United States steamer "Kearsarge," while officers and crew engaged in the capture and destruction of the vessel called the " Alabama," of the "Kearon the nineteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, the sum bounty, &c. sarge," in lieu of of one hundred and ninety thousand dollars, the same being the estimated value thereof, to be distributed to the officers and crew attached to the "Kearsarge" at the date above named according to the pay-roll of the ship at the time, and to be in lieu of the bounty authorized by the eleventh section of the act of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled "An act to regulate prize proceedings, and so forth :" Provided, That no money shall be paid to the assignee of any of said officers or crew, entitled be paid to the to receive the same, but only to himself in person, or to his wife, or to his assignee of any personal representatives, excluding any such assignee: And provided further, That if any of the officers or crew of said United States steamer" Kear- If bounty has sarge" shall have received the bounty provided for by the said section eleven been received, of the act of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, the same shall deducted. be deducted from the amount to be paid to such officer or seaman under this act.

APPROVED, April 17, 1872.

No money to

claim.

amount to be

CHAP. CIII. — An Act to change the Boundaries of the Collection District of Brazos de April 17, 1872. Santiago, in the State of Texas.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the county of Starr, now forming a part of the collection district of Corpus Christi, in the State of Texas, shall be detached therefrom and annexed to the collection district of Brazos de Santiago, and form a part of said district in said State. APPROVED, April 17, 1872.

Starr County,

Texas, annexed

to the collection

district of Brazos de Santiago.

CHAP. CIV. — An Act to authorize William C. Jardine to make Application to the Com- April 17, 1872. missioner of Patents for the Issue of a Patent for his Improvement in Brake and Rest for Carts.

WHEREAS William C. Jardine's application for improvement in brake Preamble. and rests for carts was passed for issue September eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, but by the neglect of his agent application and payment for the issue of the same was not made within the the time required by law: Therefore,

Patent may

issue to William

. Jardine for,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That William C. Jardine be authorized to make application to the commissioner of patents for the issue &c., if, &c. of a patent for his improvement in brake and rest for carts, and that the commissioner of patents be authorized to issue a patent for the same if he should deem it right and proper: Provided, That such application be made and the proper fees be paid within one year from the passage of this act, any thing in the proviso contained in the thirty-fifth section of the act enti

tled "An act to revise, consolidate, and amend the statutes relating to patents 1870, ch 230,§ 35. and copyrights," approved July eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy, to the Vol. xvi. p. 209. contrary notwithstanding: Provided, That the issue of such patent shall not

Certain inter

affected.

vening rights not affect the right to use said patented improvement of any person who, since the eleventh day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and prior to the approval of this act, may have procured, and at the time of such approval shall be using, said patented improvement.

April 22, 1872.

See 1872, ch. 241. Post, p. 192. Western land district established in Nebraska.

Republican Valley district.

Register and

districts, their

and pay.

APPROVED, April 17, 1872.

CHAP. CXI. · An Act to erect two new Land Districts in the State of Nebraska. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all that part of the State of Nebraska which lies west of range twenty-eight west of the sixth principal meridian, in the State of Nebraska, be, and the same is hereby, constituted and erected into a new land district, to be named and called the Western district.

SEC. 2. That all those parts of the present South Platte and Nemaha districts, in the State of Nebraska, which lie west of range four and east of range twenty-eight west of the sixth principal meridian be, and the same are hereby, erected into and constituted a new land district, to be named and called the Republican Valley district.

SEC. 3. That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed receiver for such to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a register and residence, duties, a receiver for each of said land districts, who shall be required to reside at the site of the land-office in each case, respectively, and shall perform like duties and be entitled to receive the same amount of compensation, respectively, as are now prescribed by law for other land-offices in said State. APPROVED, April 22, 1872.

April 22, 1872. CHAP. CXII. ·

1866, ch. 296,

§§ 12, 13.

ty extended.

An Act to extend the Time for filing Claims for additional Bounty, under the Act of July twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Vol. xiv. p. 322. Time of filing States of America in Congress assembled, That the time for filing claims claims for certain for additional bounty, under the act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hunadditional boun- dred and sixty-six, and which expired by limitation January thirteenth, 1869, ch. 133. § 4. eighteen hundred and seventy-one, be, and the same is hereby, revived and Vol. xv. p. 334. extended until the thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy1870, ch. 253. three; and that all claims for such bounties filed in the proper department Vol. xvi. p. 254. after the thirteenth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and [See 1873, ch. 281. before the passage of this act, shall be deemed to have been filed in due time, and shall be considered and decided without filing. APPROVED, April 22, 1872.

Post, p. 608.]

April 22, 1872. CHAP. CXIII.

An Act authorizing the Secretary of War to deliver condemned Ordnance to certain Soldiers' monumental Associations.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, ordnance for cer- and is hereby, authorized to deliver (if the same can be done without detri

Condemned

tain soldiers'

monumental

associations;

for national

ment to the government) four condemned cannon and sixteen cannon-balls, for the purpose of ornamenting the grounds surrounding soldiers' monuments, to each of the following associations, viz. :

To the Jefferson County, Ohio, Monumental Association;

To the Washington County, Pennsylvania, Monument Association;
To the Soldiers' Monument Association at Cortland Village, New York;

To the Hancock County, Ohio, Soldiers' Monumental Association;

To the Soldiers' Monument Association at Greencastle, Indiana ;

To the Buchanan County, Iowa, Soldiers' Monument Association;
To the Youngstown, Ohio, Soldiers' Monument Association;

And a like number to the Superintendent of the National Cemetery at cemetery at An- Andersonville, Georgia, to be placed in said cemetery.

CHAP. CXIV. - An Act in Relation to Bounties.

April 22, 1872.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every volunteer, non-com- Bounty to permissioned officer, private, musician, and artificer who enlisted into the mili- sons who enlisted in the military tary service of the United States prior to July twenty-second, eighteen service prior to hundred and sixty-one, under the proclamation of the President of the July 2, 1861, &c. United States of May third, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and the Vol. xii. p. 1260. orders of the War Department issued in pursuance thereof, and was actually mustered before August sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, into any regiment, company, or battery, which was accepted by the War Department under such proclamation and orders, shall be paid the full bounty of one hundred dollars, under and by virtue of the said proclamation and orders of the War Department, in force at the time of such enlistment and prior to July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixtyone: Provided, That the same has not already been paid. APPROVED, April 22, 1872.

Proviso.

CHAP. CXV. — An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to make certain Negotia- April 23, 1872. tions with the Ute Indians in Colorado.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior Negotiations to be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to enter into negotiations be made with the Ute Indians, to with the Ute Indians, in Colorado Territory, for the extinguishment of their extinguish their right to the south part of a certain reservation made in pursuance of a treaty right in a certain concluded March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, situate in the reservation. southwest portion of the said Territory of Colorado; and report his proceedings under this act to Congress for its consideration, the expense of such negotiation to be paid by the United States, and to be hereafter appropriated.

APPROVED, April 23, 1872.

Vol. xv. p. 619.

CHAP. CXVIII.

·An Act to create the Linkton Land District, in the State of Oregon.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all that portion of the State of Oregon lying south of the fourth standard parallel south of the base-line, between townships eighteen and nineteen south, and east of the meridian line between ranges five and six in said State, shall constitute an additional land district, to be called the Linkton district; and the office of said district shall be located at Linkville, subject to be changed by the President of the United States as the public interests may require.

April 24, 1872.

See 1872, ch. 241.

Post, p. 192.
Linkton land

district in Oregon

established.

Office.

receiver;

their residence,

SEC. 2. That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint, Register and in accordance with existing laws authorizing appointments to office, a register and a receiver for the district hereby created, who shall each be required to reside at the site of the office for said district, have the same pay, duties, &c. powers, responsibilities, and emoluments, and be subject to the same acts and penalties which are or may be prescribed by law in relation to other land officers of the United States for the State of Oregon.

SEC. 3. That all sales and locations made at the offices of the district in which the lands embraced in this district have hitherto been included, situate within the limits of this district, which shall be valid and right in other respects up to the day on which the new office shall go into operation, be, and the same are hereby confirmed.

APPROVED, April 24, 1872.

Certain sales

and locations confirmed.

April 24, 1872. CHAP. CXIX.- An Act to extend the Time for the Completion of the military Road from Fort Wilkins, at Copper Harbor, in the State of Michigan, to Fort Howard, at Green Bay, in the State of Wisconsin.

Time for completing the military road from

Fort Wilkins to extended, with original rights, &c.

Fort Howard

1863, ch. 104.

Vol. xii. p. 797. 1868, ch. 54.

Vol. XV. P. 67. 1870, ch. 93.

Vol. xvi. p. 121.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the time for the construction and completion of the military road from Fort Wilkins, at Copper Harbor, in the State of Michigan, to Fort Howard, at Green Bay, in the State of Wisconsin, be, and the same is hereby, extended until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.

SEC. 2. That all the grants, rights, and privileges contained in the original grant be continued in full force and virtue for said time.

APPROVED, April 24, 1872.

April 27, 1872. CHAP. CXXV.- An Act relating to Proposals and Contracts for Transportation of [Repealed. the Mails, and for other Purposes.

See Post, pp. 326, 330.]

Persons bid

ding for carrying mails on advertised routes, and awarded the con

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person or persons bidding for the transportation of the mails upon any route which may be advertised to be let, and receiving an award of the contract for such service, who shall wrongfully refuse or fail to enter into contract with the postmaster-general, in due form, and perform the service described in his or their bid or proposal, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand contract, &c.. to dollars, and by imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months.

tract for such service, wrongfully refusing to enter into the

be guilty of a
misdemeanor,
and fined and
imprisoned.
Oath of bidder

to be affixed to

each bid for carrying the mail, and to contain what.

SEC. 2. That each bid for carrying the mail shall hereafter have affixed to it the oath of the bidder, taken before an officer qualified to administer oaths, that he has the ability pecuniarily to fulfil his obligations, and that the bid is made in good faith and with the intention to enter into contract and perform the service, in case his bid shall be accepted; and that the signatures of his guarantors are genuine, and that he believes said guarantors pecuniarily responsible for and able to pay all damages the United States shall suffer by reason of the bidder's failing to perform his obligations as such bidder.

Penalty upon SEC. 3. That any postmaster or other officer of the Post-office Depostmasters, &c., partment who shall affix his signature to the certificate of sufficiency of for signing certifiguarantors or sureties before the guaranty or contract is signed by the cate of sufficiency of guar- guarantors or sureties, or shall knowingly make any false or illusory cerantors before, tificate, shall be forthwith dismissed from office and shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.

&c., or for knowingly making a false certificate.

No bidder released from his bid by an award

SEC. 4. That no bidder for carrying the mails shall be released from his obligation under his bid or proposal, notwithstanding an award made to a lower bidder to a lower bidder, until a contract for the designated service shall have until, &c. been duly executed by such lower bidder and his sureties, and accepted, and the service entered upon by the contractor to the satisfaction of the postmaster-general.

If any regular SEC. 5. That after any regular bidder or contractor for the transportabidder, &c., fails tion of the mail upon any route shall have failed to enter into contract, to enter into con- and commence the performance thereof as herein provided, the posttract, &c., postmaster-general to master-general shall proceed to contract with the next lowest bidder for

do what.

Regular contracts hereafter

such service, who will enter into a contract and perform the same, unless the postmaster-general shall consider such bid too high; in which case he shall re-advertise such service. And in all cases of regular contracts hereafter made, the contract may, in the discretion of the postmastercontinued for not general. be continued in force beyond its express terms for a period not over six months. exceeding six months, until a new contract with the same or other contractors shall be made by the postmaster-general.

made may be