1786 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
plicated controversy and a fair statement of the claims upon the one 
side and upon the other. 
Passed with an amendment. 
April 18, 1898—Senate. 
Passed House amendment. 
April 29, 1898— ‘ 
Be it enacted, etc., That the compromise and settlement effected 
February 23, 1895, between the United States and the State of 
Arkansas by John G. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury, and Hoke 
Smith, Secretary of the Interior, on behalf of the United States, and 
James P. Clarke, governor of Arkansas, on behalf of that State, which 
was made under and by virtue of the authority conferred by an act 
of Congress approved August 4, 1894, entitled ‘* An act to authorize 
a compromise and settlement with the State of Arkansas,” and the act 
of the general assembly of Arkansas, approved April 8, 1889, author- 
izing the governor to act for that State, be, and the same is hereby, 
approved and given the full force and effect of law upon the declara- 
tions and conditions hereinafter provided. 
Sec. 2. That the amount of $662,971.35, with which the State is 
credited in said compromise and settlement for 132,594.27 acres of 
indemnity land, at the price of $5 an acre, be, and the same is hereby, 
reduced to the amount of $331,485.63, the value of said indemnity 
land at $2.50 an acre, the double minimum price of Government land; 
and the State of Arkansas is hereby credited with the sum of $331,- 
485.68 for 265,188.54 acres of additional selected unadjusted swamp 
land, at $1.25 per acre, the minimum price of Government land, leay- 
ing the balance to be paid by the State of Arkansas to the United 
States under said compromise and settlement, $160,572. 
Sec.3. That the title of all persons who have purchased from the 
State of Arkansas any unconfirmed swamp land and hold deeds for the 
same be, and the same is hereby, confirmed and made valid as against 
any claim or right of the United States, and without the payment by 
said persons, their heirs or assigns, of any sum whatever to the United 
States or to the State of Arkansas. 
Sec. 4. That the State of Arkansas does hereby relinquish and quit- 
claim to the United States all lands heretofore confirmed, certified, or 
patented to the State which have been entered under the public-land 
laws; and does hereby cede, relinquish, and quitclaim to the United 
States all right, title, and interest under the acts of September 28, 
1850, March 2, 1855, and March 3, 1857, in and to all lands in the State 
which have been heretofore granted, confirmed, certified, or patented 
by the United States under any other acts, and the title te such lands 
is hereby confirmed in the grantees, their heirs, successors or assigns, 
anything in this act or any other act to the contrary notwithstanding: 
Provided, That this act shall be of no force or effect until the State of 
