designated in section seven into lots of twenty acres
each, with proper metes and bounds distinctly marked, so
that the several tracts shall be convenient in form, and, as
near as practicable, have an average of fertility and
woodland; and the expense of such surveys shall be paid from
the proceeds of sales of said lands, or, if sooner required,
out of any moneys received for other lands on these islands,
sold by the United States for taxes, and now in the hands of
the direct tax commissioners.

"SEC. 11. _And be it further enacted_, That restoration of
the lands now occupied by persons under General Sherman's
special field order, dated at Savannah, Georgia, January
sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, shall not be
made until after the crops of the present year shall have
been gathered by the occupants of said lands, nor until a
fair compensation shall have been made to them by the former
owners of said lands, or their legal representatives, for
all improvements or betterments erected or constructed
thereon, and after due notice of the same being done shall
have been given by the assistant commissioner.

"SEC. 12. _And be it further enacted_, That the commissioner
shall have power to seize, hold, use, lease, or sell, all
buildings and tenements, and any lands appertaining to the
same, or otherwise, held under claim or title by the late
so-called Confederate States, and any buildings or lands
held in trust for the same by any person or persons, and to
use the same or appropriate the proceeds derived therefrom
to the education of the freed people; and whenever the
bureau shall cease to exist, such of the late so-called
Confederate States as shall have made provision for the
education of their citizens, without distinction of color,
shall receive the sum remaining unexpended of such sales or
rentals, which shall be distributed among said States for
educational purposes in proportion to their population.

"SEC. 13. _And be it further enacted_, That the commissioner
of this bureau shall at all times cooeperate with private
benevolent associations of citizens in aid of freedmen, and
with agents and teachers, duly accredited and appointed by
them, and shall hire or provide by lease buildings for
purposes of education whene