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Show MINERAL ACf AWKNDJIEST. j After hunting through an indefinite quantity of Gongresaional Globe without with-out finding authoritatively the direct aotion of congress on this mattor, the following haB reached us by due course of mail : An act to amond an act entitled "An act to jirovoto tlio dovoloi.mont of tho mining r floe fl-oe ur eon of tho United btatos." Re it euaoted by tho senato and house of representatives of the Unitod Stales of America in congress assembled, assem-bled, That tho provisions of the fifth section of the aot entitled "An act to promote tho development of the -mining resources of tho United States," parsed May tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, whioh requires expenditures ex-penditures of labor and improvements on claims located prior to the passage of Baid act, are hereby so amended that the time for the first annual ox- pendituro on claims looatod prior to ' tho passage of said aot shall bo extended extend-ed to tho tenth day of June, eighteen " hundred and seventy-four. Approved March 1, 1873. |