July 2, 1864. Vol. 13, p. 584. Value of cer No. 2689.-AN ACT for the relief of William Sawyer and others, of the State of Whereas by the treaty of Saint Mary's with the Miami Indians, of tain lands in Au- October six, eighteen hundred and eighteen, the west half of section glaize County, number twenty-six, the east half of section number twenty-eight, and Ohio, to be ascer section number twenty-seven, lying in the county of Auglaize and State tained, &c. May 5, 1866. Certain lands of Ohio, were reserved and granted to Joseph Richardville and Joseph Richardville, junior; and whereas all of said lands have since been sold in several parcels to divers persons by the United States and by the State of Ohio, under and by virtue of a grant from the United States; and whereas, by virtue of a judicial sale upon a judgment rendered against the said Joseph Richardville, junior, survivor and sole heir at law of the said Joseph Richardville, senior, the title granted to the said Joseph Richardville, senior, and Joseph Richardville, junior, by said treaty, in all of said lands, has become vested in one Madison Sweetser, the purchaser at said sale; and whereas the said Madison Sweetser has established his title to said lands by sundry judgments in ejectment, recovered in the circuit court of the United States for the northern district of Ohio, against the tenants in possession, holding under titles derived, directly or indirectly, from the United States as aforesaid: Therefore, Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to cause the unimproved value of the said tracts of land to be ascertained, by the valuation and assessment of a commissioner to be appointed by him for that purpose, and which commissioner shall, before he proceeds to the assessment and valuation of the same, take an oath faithfully and impartially to perform his duties as such commissioner. And when the said Secretary of the Interior shall thus ascertain the unimproved value of said lands he shall report the same to the House of Representatives at the earliest practicable moment. (a) (a) See No. 2690. No. 2690.—JOINT RESOLUTION providing for the reappraisement of the lands described in an act for the relief of William Sawyer and others of Obio. Be it resolved, &c., That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is in Ohio to be re- hereby, authorized to appoint a commissioner to reappraise the lands appraised. described in the act entitled "An act for the relief of William Sawyer and others of Ohio," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixtyfour: Provided, however, That the occupants of said lands shall pay all the expenses of the reappraisement. (a) Proviso. June 29, 1866. A. M. Jess may (a) See No. 2689. No. 2691.—AN ACT granting land to A. M. Jess, of Josephine County, Oregon. Whereas the land claimed and settled upon by A. M. Jess, on Applegate River, in Josephine County, State of Oregon, under the provisions of the homestead law of May twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, has since, without his fault, become of no value to him and been in great part destroyed by a change in the channel of said river; and whereas his title to said land is still inchoate and justice requires that he should be permitted to locate and settle upon an equal quantity of other public land in lieu thereof: Therefore, Be it enacted, &c., That the said A. M. Jess be, and he is hereby, aulocate and settle thorized to locate and settle upon one hundred and sixty acres of the upon 160 acres of public lands. public lands of the United States, in accordance with the provisions Title to former and requirements of the homestead law aforesaid, and, at the expiralocation to revert tion of the period therein prescribed, to receive a patent therefor on the to the United terms and conditions therein prescribed: Provided, That the title so acNew location quired by him to the land heretofore located and settled upon by him not to be upon as aforesaid shall revert to the United States: And provided further, mineral lands. That said new location and settlement shall not be made upon mineral lands of the United States. States. March 2, 1867. No. 2692.—AN ACT for the relief of the heirs of John E. Bouligny. Land claim of Be it enacted, &c., That there be, and hereby is, confirmed to Mary heirs of John E. Elizabeth Bouligny, Corinne Bouligny, and Felice Bouligny, the widow Bouligny con and children of John E. Bouligny, deceased, the one-sixth part of the firmed, and new land claimed of Jean Antoine Bernard d'Autrive, in the State of Louisiana, said one-sixth part amounting to seventy-five thousand eight certificates to issue. hundred and forty acres; and that, inasmuch as the said land embraced (a) See No. 2693. No. 2693.-JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Secretary of the Interior to suspend the execution of a law passed by the Thirty-ninth Congress for the relief of the heirs of John E. Bouligny. March 30, 1867. Act for the re Be it resolved, &c., That the Secretary of the Interior be directed to suspend the execution of the act entitled "An act for the relief of the lief of the heirs of John E. Bouheirs of John E. Bouligny," approved March second, eighteen hundred ligny suspended. and sixty-seven, until the further order of Congress. (a) (a) See No. 2692. No. 2694.-AN ACT for the relief of Sally C. Northrop. Whereas the petition of Sally C. Northrop represents that in the year eighteen hundred and forty-eight, Henry S. Atwood, a merchant, being solicited thereto by them, purchased the discharges of certain soldiers, and obtained from them powers of attorney to procure and assign the bounty-land warrants to which they were entitled under the ninth section of the act of Congress, approved February eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-seven; and that before receiving the warrants on the discharges so purchased, the said Henry S. Atwood died; and that subsequently said warrants were duly received by Franklin K. Beck, administrator of the estate of said Henry S. Atwood, and sold by said Beck, as such administrator, to the said Sally C. Northrop, for a full and valuable consideration; and whereas it is further represented by the petitioner that, according to the forms of transfer now prescribed by law, her title to said warrants is defective, and that after careful efforts through several years, she has been unable to find the soldiers in whose names said warrants were issued, and therefore unable to perfect her title to the same; the numbers of said warrants and the names of the soldiers in whose favor they were issued being as follows, viz: 61669, John Holly; 61575, William Luffman; 60813, George W. Bowen; 60823, James Cooper; 61672, John Gilbert; 61556, Adam H. Underwood; 60817, Henry Truitt; 61674, Henry H. Foster; 61822, Joseph Ervin; 61675, John E. Edmundson; 61820, Thomas Johnson; 61676, William Davis; 62062, William M. Connor; 61663, Frederick S. Moore; 60814, Robert Bryan; 61665, William Holley; 60825, Green B. Driscoll; 60822, William Childers; 61819, James Loflen; 61664, John C. Lewis; 61569, Matthew V. Gray; 61806, William B. Buckalew; 61671, William H. Hines; 60816, Pierce L. Alford; 61808, Peter Brookey; 61576, Silas M. Sullivan; 61809, Elebe H. Jones; 62111, William E. Binion; 62337, Zadoc Pitts; 60827, John Lamerson; 62335, Thomas Lindsey; 60826, Wilson Clark; 61807, Wiley Chesser; 60824, Joel Foster; 62336, Augustus Patal; 60821, Jesse Le Grand; 61810, Persel N. Graham; 60815, Milton A. Roach; 62060, Ludwick B. Bright; 61667, Samuel C. Gordon; 61670, Patrick H. Harding; 61666, Farrer Lankaster; 62061, William F. Hunter; 62189, Nicholas M. Fain; 61805, John Bradley; 60812, Robert Beesley; 62064, Robert D. Brooks; 70861, Columbus W. Howard; 62373, John M. Castello; 61577, James Murray; 61562, George Somers; 62063, Charles R. Brewer; John Burner: Therefore, July 27, 1868. Be it enacted, &c, That upon the location, in accordance with law, by Patents to isSally C. Northrop, or her assigns, and the presentation of any of the sue to Sally C. foregoing bounty-land warrants so located, to the Commissioner of the Northrop, &c., General Land Office with proper legal evidence that the same has been for land, &c. assigned to the aforesaid Sally C. Northrop by Franklin K. Beck, as administrator of the estate of the aforesaid Henry S. Atwood, it shall be the duty of said Commissioner to issue patents for the land so located as in other cases. March 3, 1869. No. 2695.-AN ACT for the relief of Henry Barricklow. Whereas, on the twenty-eighth day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, by the sinking of the steamboat "Nat. Holmes," in the Ohio River, near the city of Aurora, Indiana, Henry Barricklow lost the following-described twenty-three land warrants, to wit: Numbers fiftythree thousand nine hundred and eleven, eighty thousand two hundred and eighty-five, eighty thousand three hundred and nine, and eighty thousand three hundred and forty-one, issued under the act of February eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-seven; number seven hundred and ninety, issued under act of March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-two; and numbers thirty-one thousand and seventy-eight, thirtyfour thousand two hundred and sixty-six, forty-four thousand and thirty-seven, forty-nine thousand nine hundred and eighty-six, fifty-five thousand one hundred and thirty-two, fifty-seven thousand three hundred and thirteen, sixty thousand one hundred and one, sixty thousand four hundred and eleven, sixty-two thousand four hundred and eightyeight, sixty-six thousand four hundred and eighty-one, seventy-one thousand three hundred and fifty-seven, eighty thousand and fortythree, eighty-one thousand six hundred and eighty-three, eighty-one thousand eight hundred and thirty, eighty-two thousand four hundred and twenty-one, eighty-two thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, eighty-two thousand nine hundred and eighteen, and eighty-four thousand four hundred and eighty-nine, [issued under] act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-five; each for one hundred and sixty acres ; and whereas duplicates of said warrants have been issued by the Commissioner of Pensions and delivered to said Barricklew: Therefore, Henry Barrick- Be it enacted, &c., That said Henry Barricklow is hereby authorized low may locate, to locate, or sell and assign, said duplicate land warrants in the same &c., certain duplicate land warmanner as if the same had been issued in his name, and patents shall rants. be issued by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, on the location of said duplicate warrants, as in case of other land warrants. June 1, 1872. No. 2696.-AN ACT for the relief of Phoebe Hepburn. Whereas it is alleged that Phoebe Hepburn was the owner by purchase and assignment of the following bounty-land warrants, issued under the act of March three, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, to wit: Numbers sixty-nine thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, fifty-nine thousand four hundred and nineteen, eighty-six thousand one hundred and fifty-seven, eighty-eight thousand six hundred and nineteen, ninetyone thousand seven hundred and twenty-four, thirty-one thousand five hundred and fifty-eight, sixty-seven thousand four hundred and seventeen, fifty-nine thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight, eighty-seven thousand two hundred and seventy-seven, ninety-one thousand seven hundred and seven, seventeen thousand four hundred and eighty-one, and ninety-five thousand three hundred and twenty, for one hundred and twenty acres each; and numbers sixty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, and fifty-seven thousand five hundred and thirty-two, for one hundred and sixty acres each; in all, fourteen warrants; that in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven she placed said warrants in the hands of Salmon Sharp as her agent, to locate or otherwise dispose of them for her; that said agent did sell four of said warrants, to wit, one of the one hundred and sixty acre warrants, and three of the one hundred and twenty acre warrants, and made a memorandum of their respective numbers, and to whom sold, and placed it among the ten remaining unsold warrants; that by an accident said memorandum and the ten warrants were dropped in a cattle-yard, and were eaten up by the cattle, and, having no other memorandum, he is unable to state the numbers of the warrants that were sold, consequently, cannot arrive at the numbers of the ten warrants that were not sold; and whereas it appears from the records of the General Land Office that warrant number sixty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, for one hundred and sixty acres, and numbers fifty-nine thousand four hundred and nineteen, and seventeen thousand four hundred and eighty-one, for one hundred and twenty acres, being three of the abovenamed warrants, have been returned to said office located, leaving but one of the sold warrants not accounted for: Therefore, war to Phoebe Hep Be it enacted, &c., That upon satisfactory proof being made to the Certain dupliCommissioner of Pensions that Phoebe Hepburn was the bona-fide cate land owner, by purchase and assignment to her, of said warrants, numbers rants to be issued sixty-nine thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, eighty-six thousand burn upon proof, one hundred and fifty-seven, eighty-eight thousand six hundred and &c. nineteen, ninety-one thousand seven hundred and twenty-four, thirtyone thousand five hundred and fifty-eight, sixty-seven thousand four hundred and seventeen, fifty-nine thousand nine hundred and seventyeight, eighty-seven thousand two hundred and seventy-seven, ninety-one thousand seven hundred and seven, and ninety-five thousand three hundred and twenty, for one hundred and twenty acres each, and fiftyseven thousand five hundred and thirty-two for one hundred and sixty acres, all issued under act of March third, eighteen hundred and fiftyfive, being eleven of the warrants mentioned in the above preamble, he is hereby authorized and directed to issue duplicates of said warrants, and to endorse on the back of each certificate stating that this duplicate is issued in pursuance of this act, and that Phoebe Hepburn is the bona-fide owner thereof; that she is hereby authorized to locate or sell and assign the same in the same manner as though said duplicate warrant was duly assigned to her by the warrantee. Thereafter said Commissioner of Pensions will transmit said duplicate warrants to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, who is authorized to deliver ten of said duplicate warrants to Phoebe Hepburn, or her legal representatives, under such rules, regulations, and requirements as to said Commissioner may seem just and proper, in order to preserve as well the rights of the parties interested as that of the United States, and upon the said Phoebe Hepburn giving such security as said Commissioner shall require to indemnify the United States against loss in the premises; and to this end he will retain the remaining duplicate warrant on the the files of his office, until the warrant said to have been sold shall be returned to his office, located or otherwise. SEC. 2. That upon the final adjustment of said matter, and when the number of the sold warrant not accounted for shall be ascertained, then, and in such case, the corresponding duplicate warrant shall be, by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, returned to the Commissioner of Pensions for the purpose of being cancelled, thus leaving but ten of said duplicate warrants to be satisfied by the United States. No. 2697.—AN ACT for the relief of Harriet Spring, the heir of Captain Williams Indemnity to States. Duplicate warrant to be return ed, upon, &c. June 10. 1872. Payment to Be it enacted, &c., That there be paid to Harriet Spring, of Waterville, Maine, the heir of Captain Williams Barker, of Waterville, Maine, out Harriet Spring. of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the half-pay of a captain from the end of the revolutionary war to the death of Captain Barker, February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and nineteen; and that a warrant be issued to the said Harriet Spring for such bounty land as she, in virtue of the services of the said Captain Williams Barker, deceased, as a private soldier in said war is entitled to receive. No. 2698.-AN ACT to confirm certain entries of lands therein named. Feb. 17, 1873. Certain entries Patents. Be it enacted, &c. That all entries of public lands under the act to graduate and reduce the price of the public lands subject to entry to actual settlers and cultivators, approved the fourth day of August, of public lands eighteen hundred and fifty-four; made prior to the passage of this act, legalized. in which the purchaser has made the affidavit and paid, or tendered, the purchase money as required by said act, and the instructions issued and in force, and in the hands of the register at the time of making said entry, are hereby legalized, and patents shall issue to the parties, respectively, provided that in case of tender the money shall be paid, Tender. excepting those entries under said act which the Commissioner of the General Land Office may ascertain to have been fraudulently or evasively made: Provided, That this act shall not be so construed as to confirm any of said entries which have heretofore been annulled and fore annulled not vacated by said Commissioner on account of fraud, evasion of law, or other special cause: And provided further, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to deprive any actual settler and cultivator of his right to any land on which he resided at the time of an entry by another person under the act to which this is an amendment. (a) (a) Bee Nos. 2640, 2648, 2649, 2651, 2660, 2686. Entries hereto confirmed. Rights of actual settlers. March 2, 1877. No. 2699.—AN ACT for the benefit of Andrew Williams of Weakley County, Ten Vol. 19, p. 512. Land warrants drew Williams. nessee. Be it enacted, &c., That the Commissioner of Pensions be and he is to issue to An- hereby, directed to issue to Andrew Williams two land warrants for eighty acres each, in lieu of land warrants numbered thirty-two thousand seven hundred and sixteen, and forty-three thousand and eight, the first of which was issued to Martha McNabb, widow of John W. McNabb, and the latter to Rebecca Skaggs, widow of Charles Skaggs, and which were located upon the land above described: Provided, That such land warrants shall not be issued to the said Andrew Williams until the patents issued to B. R. McNabb shall be returned to, and canceled by, the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and that fact be certified by him to the Commissioner of Pensions. May 25, 1878. Vol. 20, p. 535. Cattar a ugus Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorIndian reserva- ized to cause the Cattaraugus Indian reservation in the State of New tion; resurvey of. York to be resurveyed in accordance with the original survey thereof, and the exterior boundaries thereof to be marked by stone or iron monuments; the expense thereof not to exceed the sum of two thousand dollars, and to be paid by the Seneca nation of Indians, who are authorized to select a surveyor, to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and the said Secretary may pay the said sum of two thousand dollars, to the person who makes the survey out of any moneys under his control belonging to said nation of Indians. No. 2700.-AN ACT to authorize the survey of the Cattaraugus Indian reservation in the State of New York. Plats, field. notes. SEC. 2. That the surveyor shall make plats in triplicate of the said reservation, showing the lines of its exterior boundaries, streams of water, and public highways on or running through the reservation; and that the plats and field-notes of the survey shall be submitted to the Commissioner of the General Land Office for his examination and approval, and whose duty it shall be to furnish one copy thereof to the clerk of the county of Erie, in the State of New York, one copy to the Seneca nation of Indians, and the third to be retained in the General Land Office. March 3, 1879. No. 2701.-JOINT RESOLUTION approving the adverse decision of the CommisVol. 20, p. 670. sioner of the General Land Office in the claim of Anna M. Clark. Anna M. Clark. Land claim rejected. May 3, 1880. Rights restored H. Bryant, G. A. Resolved, &c., That the decision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office adverse to the claim of Anna M. Clark (Executive Document Number Twelve, House of Representatives, first session, Fortyfourth Congress), be, and the same is hereby, approved, and the said claim is hereby rejected. No. 2702.—AN ACT for the relief of Cyrus B. Ingham, of the Territory of Dakota, Harvey Bryant and Guilford A. Wood, of Kansas, and Richard Parker, of Minnesota, James H. Pinkerton, of Colorado, and Ed. G. Wright, of Kansas. Be it enacted, &c., That the right to homestead pre-emption and timto C. B. Ingham, ber-culture entry, upon public lands, subject thereto, is hereby restored Wood, R. Parker, to Cyrus B. Ingham of the Territory of Dakota, Harvey Bryant and J. H. Pinkerton, Guilford A. Wood of Kansas, and Richard Parker of Minnesota, James and E. G. Wright. H. Pinkerton of Colorado, and Ed. G. Wright of Kansas, as fully as May 19, 1880. though they had not heretofore made any one or all of such entries, and had abandoned the same or for any cause they have been unable to perfect their title thereto: Provided, That this act shall not be so construed as to enable any of said parties to procure title to land, either as a homestead pre-emption or timber-culture claim in excess of what is fixed and provided by law. No. 2703.-AN ACT for the relief of George Heard. Whereas George Heard, of Pettis County, Missouri, did on June eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, at the then Clinton (Missouri) land office, attempt to locate bounty-land warrant number sixty-one thousand one hundred and seventy-eight, for one hundred and sixty acres of land, act of eighteen hundred and forty-seven, issued to Chester Hebner, upon the west half of lot two of northeast quarter and east half of lot two of northwest quarter, section two, township forty-five, and |