Private Law 53–146

That there be, and is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight hundred dollars, four hundred dollars of which shall be paid to William J. Cornell, on account of an overpayment of that sum to the receiver of the United States land office at Lagrande, Oregon, on land entry numbered forty-two hundred and ninety-eight, for the southern half of section twenty-seven, township three north, of range thirty east, and four hundred dollars thereof to Joseph M. Cornell, on account of an overpayment by him of that sum to said receiver, on land entry numbered forty-two hundred and ninety-two, for the north half of section twenty-seven, township three north, range thirty east, said entries having been made under the third section of the act of September twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and said parties having been by mistake of the officers of said hind office required to pay two dollars and fifty cents per acre instead of the legal price thereof, namely, one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre.