Chapter LXXXI. to amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize Protection to be given to Citizens of the United Ulates who may discover Deposits of Guano,” approved August 18, 1856
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CHAP. LXXXI.— An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize Protection to be given to Citizens of the United Ulates who may discover Deposits of Guano,” approved August 18, 1856.April 2, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That1856, ch. 164.Vol. xi. p. 119.Protection given to discoverers of deposits of guano, extended to their widows, &c., in certain cases. the provisions of the act of Congress approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, entitled “An act to authorize protection to be given to citizens of the United States who may discover deposits of guano,” be, and the same are hereby, extended to the widow, heirs, executors, or administrators of such discoverer, where such discoverer shall have died before perfecting proof of discovery or fully complying with’ the provisions of said act approved as aforesaid, after complying with the requirements of the act of Congress of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five:Rights of discovery, &c., not impaired. *Provided,* That nothing herein contained shall lie held to impair any rights of discovery or any assignment by a discoverer heretofore recognized by the government of the United States.
Sec. 2. ThatProhibition of the export of guano suspended as to certain persons until July 14, 1877.1856. ch. 164, § 2.Vol. xi. p. 119.1865, ch. 80, § 8.Vol. xiii. p. 494.1866, ch. 298, § 3.Vol. xiv. p. 328. section three of an act approved July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled “An act to protect the revenue, and for other purposes,” amendatory of the act aforesaid, approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the word “live,” wherever the same occurs, and inserting in lieu thereof the word “ten.
” Approved, April 2, 1872.