elena, in said State, were in part sold by the said
tax commissioners to 'heads of families of the African
race,' in parcels of not more than twenty acres to each
purchaser; and whereas, under the said instructions, the
said tax commissioners did also set apart as 'school-farms'
certain parcels of land in said parish, numbered in their
plats from one to sixty-three inclusive, making an aggregate
of six thousand acres, more or less: _Therefore, be it
further enacted_, That the sales made to 'heads of families
of the African race,' under the instructions of President
Lincoln to the United States direct tax commissioners for
South Carolina, of date of September sixteenth, eighteen
hundred and sixty-three, are hereby confirmed and
established; and all leases which have been made to such
'heads of families' by said direct tax commissioners shall
be changed into certificates of sale in all cases wherein
the lease provides for such substitution; and all the lands
now remaining unsold, which come within the same
designation, being eight thousand acres, more or less, shall
be disposed of according to said instructions.

"SEC. 7. _And be it further enacted_, That all other lands
bid in by the United States at tax sales, being thirty-eight
thousand acres, more or less, and now in the hands of the
said tax commissioners as the property of the United States,
in the parishes of Saint Helena and Saint Luke, excepting
the 'school-farms,' as specified in the preceding section,
and so much as may be necessary for military and naval
purposes at Hilton Head, Bay Point, and Land's End, and
excepting also the city of Port Royal, on Saint Helena
island, and the town of Beaufort, shall be disposed of in
parcels of twenty acres, at one dollar and fifty cents per
acre, to such persons, and to such only, as have acquired
and are now occupying lands under and agreeably to the
provisions of General Sherman's special field order, dated
at Savannah, Georgia, January sixteenth, eighteen hundred
and sixty-five; and the remaining lands, if any, shall be
disposed of, in like manner, to such persons as had acquired
lands agreeably to the said order of General Sherman, but
who have been dispossessed by the restoration of the same to
former owners: _Provided_, Th