36 FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 72, 73, 78. 1876. ¤i¤i¤¤¤ within as aforesaid valid pre-emption or homestead claims existed upon any 1““gdg’;‘,.',£*“ "{°“* lands within the limits of any such grants which afterward were abang`:,!,,m°,,,,_ r °' up doned, and, under the decisions and rulings of the Land Department, were re-entered by pre-emption or homestead claimants who have com- ·plied with the laws governing pre-emption or homestead entmes, and shall make the proper proofs required under such laws, such entries shall be deemed valid, and patents shall issue therefor to the person en- (*]****1***. °¤!*°*°d titled thereto. Sue. 3. That all such preemption and homestead entries f£’,‘ffg;f,*;’f“°’°" °f which may have been made by permission of the Land Department, or, ` in pursuance of the rules and instructions thereof, within the limits of any land-grant at a time subsequent to expiration of such grant, shall be deemed valid and a compliance with the laws and the making of the proof required shall entitle the holder of such claim to a patent therefor. Approved, April 21, 1876. April 21, 1876. CHAP. 73.-An act authorizing the transfer of certain causes from the circuit court ····*·1··—* of the United States for the district of Alabama at Mobile into the circuit court of the United States for the middle and northern districts of Alabama at Montgomery - and Huntsville in said State. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United -1-,,,,,,,;-,,, 0,- wp States of America in Congress assembled, That all civil causes, actions, tain mes n-om°m- suits, executions, pleas, process, or other proceedings whatsoever which mit ¤<>¤¤¤ M M9— were transferred by the act of Congress approved March third, eighteen lggjtstgf hundred and seventy three, {rom the district courts of the United States and middh, dm for the northern and middle districts of Alabama into the circuit court meta of·Alabama, of the United States for the district of Alabama at Mobile, Alabama, and which are now pending in said circuit court, be, and the same are 1S·,3,ch_ 225, hereby, transferred from said circuit court at Mobile into the circuit 17 Stat., 484. courts of the United States for said northern and middle districts, respectively · and the circuit courts of the United States in and for said 1874, eh. 401, districts shall have jurisdiction to try and determine all such causes 18 $$0%*95- and actions so transferred, the same as if such causespr actions had been originally brought in such circuit court; and the clerk of said circuit court at Mobile shall transmit all of the original papers in such causes, together with a complete transcript of all dockets, minutes, judgments, orders, and decrees in such of said causes as are not Hnally disposed of . in saidcircuit court at Mobile, to the circuit courts for said northern and middle districts, respectively, to each the causes, and so forth, as were originally transferred from the district courts of said districts. Approved, April 21, 1876. _ Ap;·i125, 1376_ CHAP. 'IB.-An act to establish a land-office in the southern part of Utah Territory, ·-—-————-——·—-—- to be known as the Beaver district, and for other purposes. ‘ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Beaver land dis- States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the public lands · trict cstublishcd. of the United States in the Territory of Utah, begining at the southwestern boundary of said Territory, thence running north on the line between ‘ said Territory and the State of Nevada to the Fourth Standard parallel of latitude, thence easterly along said line to the eastern boundary of of said Territory, thence southerly to the southern boundary of said _ Territory, thence westerly to the place of begining, be formed into a Lm;.,,m.,,,_ land district, to be called the Beaver land district, the 1and·oifice.for which shall be located at such point as the President may direct, and may be removed from time to time to other points within said district whenever, in his opinion, it may be expedient. Sec. 2. That the Pres- Register and m_ ident be, and he i hereby, authorized to appoint, by and with the admver. vice and consent of the Senate, a register and a receiver {br said district,
