[PRIVATE-No. 147-70TH CONGRESS] [H. R. 332] AN ACT Validating homestead entry of Englehard Sperstad for certain public land in Alaska Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the entry hereinafter described be, and the same is hereby, validated and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to issue patent thereon upon the submission of satisfactory proof of compliance with the provisions of the Act of June 6, 1912 (Thirty-seventh Statutes, page 123): Homestead entry, Anchorage, Alaska, numbered 06094, made by Englehard Sperstad on January 28, 1924, for the southeast quarter of section 36, township 13 north, range 4 west of the Seward meridian, and in lieu of that tract the Territory of Alaska shall have the right to select equal area of public land of the character subject to selection under its school-land grant. Approved, May 17, 1928. [PUBLIC RESOLUTION-No. 57-70TH CONGRESS] [H. J. Res. 140] JOINT RESOLUTION To amend sections 1 and 2 of the Act of March 3, 1891 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That sections 1 and 2 of the Act of March 3, 1891 (Twenty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 833), be amended by adding, after the word "cattle," as it occurs in lines 4 and 6 of section 1 and in lines 2 and 5 of section 2, a comma followed by the words "horses, mules, asses, sheep, goats, or swine," so that said sections as hereby amended shall read as follows: "That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to examine all vessels which are to carry export cattle, horses, mules, asses, sheep, goats, or swine from the ports of the United States to foreign countries, and to prescribe by rules and regulations or orders the accommodations which said vessels shall provide for export cattle, horses, mules, asses, sheep, goats, or swine as to space, ventilation, fittings, food and water supply, and such other requirements as he may decide to be necessary for the safe and proper transportation and humane treatment of such animals. "SEC. 2. That whenever the owner, owners, or master of any vessel carrying export cattle, horses, mules, asses, sheep, goats, or swine shall willfully violate or cause or permit to be violated any rule, regulation, or order made pursuant to the foregoing section the vessel in respect of which such violation shall occur may be prohibited from again carrying cattle, horses, mules, asses, sheep, goats, or swine from any port of the United States for such length of time, not exceeding one year, as the Secretary of Agriculture may direct, and such vessel shall be refused clearance from any port of the United States accordingly." Approved, May 28, 1928. о |