Chapter CIX. *to authorize the Issuing of Patents for certain Lands in the Town of Stockbridge, State of Wisconsin, and for other Purposes.* March 3, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That, upon satisfactory proof Patents may i
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Chap. CIX.— An Act *to authorize the Issuing of Patents for certain Lands in the Town of Stockbridge, State of Wisconsin, and for other Purposes.* March 3, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That, upon satisfactory proof Patents may issue for certain lands in Stookbridge. Wisconsin.being made that any occupant[s] of unpatented land in the town of Stockbridge, Calumet County, in the State of Wisconsin, which has, by treaty or otherwise, been allotted to any individual members of the Stockbridge orMunsee tribe of Indians, are the purchasers, grantees, or assignees of such members of said tribes, the President of the United States be author ized to issue patents for the land so occupied to such purchasers, grantees, Conflicting claims.or assignees, respectively: *Provided,* That in case of conflicting claims to any of the lots of land the commissioner of the general land-office is authorized to hear the proofs of the respective claimants, and to decide which of such claimants are justly entitled to said land, and patents shall be issued in accordance with such decision.
THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 109, 110. 1865. 531 Sec. 2.*And be it further enacted,* That patents issued according to this Patents to vest the fee subject to valid lieus.act shall vest in the patentee title to the land described in such patent, in fee simple, subject to any valid lien or incumbrance thereon created by said patentee or those under whom he claims. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the lots of land in said town Lands in Stockbridge not patented to form part of the Menasha land district.
May be sold.of Stockbridge belonging to the United States, not hereinbefore directed to be patented, shall be attached to and form a part of the Menasha land district, and if, in the opinion of the commissioner of the general land-office, it shall be for the public interest, the same may be sold at the min imum price of three dollars per acre for lots fronting on Lake Winnebago, five dollars per acre for the two tiers of lots fronting on the military road, onetier of lots on each side thereof, and two dollars and fifty cents per acre for the residue of said land to actual settlers thereon possessing the qualifications requisite to acquire preemption rights, who shall prove to the satisfaction of the register of the land-office at Menasha, Wisconsin, that he or she has made improvements to the value of not less than fifty Time of payment extended to certain purchasers.
Not more than two contiguous lots can be preempted. Lands when to be brought into market.dollars, and is actually residing upon the land; the time of paying the purchase price may be extended for a period not exceeding one year from the passage of this act: *Provided,* That no such actual settler shall he permitted to preempt more than two contiguous lots on which he or she has made improvements of the value of not less than one hundred dollars. The lands not sold within one year as hereinbefore provided, shall be brought into market and sold at not less than the minimum prices fixed by this act.
Approved, March 3, 1865.