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commissioner provided for by this act to reside at Sitka shall be ex officio register 
of said land office, and the clerk provided for by this act shall be ex officio receiver 
of public moneys and the marshal provided for by this act shall be ex officio 
surveyor-general of said district and the laws of the United States relating to 
mining claims, and the rights incident thereto, shall, from and after the passage 
of this act, be in full force and effect in said district, under the administration 
thereof herein provided for, subject to such regulations as may be made by the 
Secretary of the Interior, approved by the President: Provided, That the 
Indians or other persons in said district shall not be disturbed in the possession 
of any lands actually in their use or occupation or now claimed by them, but the 
terms under which such persons may acquire title to such lands is reserved for 
future legislation by Congress: And providedfurther , That parties who have 
located mines or mineral privileges therein under the laws of the United States 
applicable to the public domain, or who have occupied and improved or exer¬ 
cised acts of ownership over such claims,'shall not be disturbed therein, but shall 
be allowed to perfect their title to such claims by payment as aforesaid: And 
provided also, That the land not exceeding six hundred and forty acres at any 
station now occupied as missionary stations among the Indian tribes in said 
section, with the improvements thereon erected by or for such societies, shall be 
continued in the occupancy of the several religious societies to which said mis- 
sionary stations respectively belong until action by Congress. But nothing 
contained in this act shall be construed to put in force in said district the general 
land laws of the United States. 
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V T V* T T T* T* 
Approved May 17, 1884. (23 Stat., 24.) 
AN ACT making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year 
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House oj Representatives of the United States 
of America in Congress assembled, * * * * * 
No person who shall, after the passage of this act, enter upon any of the 
public lands with a view to occupation, entry, or settlement under any of the land 
laws shall be permitted to acquire title to more than three hundred and twenty 
acres in the aggregate, under all of said laws, but this limitation shall not operate 
to curtail the right of any person who has heretofore made entry or settlement 
on the public lands, or whose occupation, entry, or settlement is validated by 
this act: Provided, That in all patents for lands hereafter taken up under any 
of the land laws of the United States or on entries or claims validated by this 
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