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7 SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the fee simple of all real estate thus entered upon and appropriated for the purposes of this act, and of which appraisement shall have been made under the order and direction of any of said courts, shall, upon payment to the owner or owners, respectively, of the appraised value, or in case said owner or owners refuse or neglect for thirty days after the appraisement of the cash value of the said real estate or improvements by any of said courts to demand the same from the Secretary of War, upon depositing the said appraised value in the said court, making such appraisement to the credit of said owner or owners, respectively, be vested in the United States, and its jurisdiction over said real estate shall be exclusive and the same as its jurisdiction over real estate purchased, ceded, or appropriated for the purposes of navy yards, forts, and arsenals. And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and required to pay to the several owner or owners, respectively, the appraised value of the several pieces or parcels of real estate, as specified in the appraisement of any said courts, or to pay into any of said courts by deposit, as hereinbefore provided, the said appraised value; and the sum necessary for such purpose may be taken from any moneys appropriated for the purposes of this act. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the sum of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to carry out the purposes of this act out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, February 22, 1867. IX..[Public-No. 47.] AN ACT to amend section twelve, chapter two hundred and ninety-nine of the laws of the first session of the Thirty-ninth Congress. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress Assembled, That the last clause of section twelve, of chapter two hundred and ninety-nine, of the laws of first session Thirty0ninth Congress, approved July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, is hereby amended by repealing all after and including the words "until otherwise provided by law," so as to place the judge advocates thereby authorized to be retained in service upon