Chapter 1269.
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CHAP. 1269.— An act for the relief of certain settlers on the public lands of the United States and to authorize the taking and filing of final proofs in certain cases.October 1, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Completion of entries where office of register or receiver is vacant. That in cases now before any of the land offices of the United States in which there has been or is now a vacancy in either of the offices of register or receiver, where the day set for hearing final proofs came during the vacancy in said office, and there is no contest or protest against said claims, and where the remaining officer has taken said proofs and reduced the same to writing, the same may now be passed upon by the register and receiver as if the same had been taken when there was no vacancy.
Sec. 2. That hereafter, when a vacancy shall occur in any of theIn vacancy in office of register or receiver, remaining officer may take final proofs. land offices of the United States by reason of the death, resignation, or removal of either the register or receiver, and the time set for taking final proofs falls within the vacancy thus caused, the remaining officer may proceed to take said final proofs, in the absence of any contest or protest, reduce the same to writing, and place it on file in the office to be considered and passed upon when the vacancy as filled.
Approved, October 1, 1890. Chapter 1270: to authorize the appointment of Assistant Surgeons Thomas Owens and William Martin, United States Navy, not in the line of promotion, to the position of Surgeons, United States Navy, not in the line of promotion, and for other purposes. Chapter 1270 26 Stat. 657 1890-10-01 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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