Chapter CCVII. *for the Relief of Pre-emption Settlers in the State of Nebraska*
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CHAP. CCVII.— An Act *for the Relief of Pre-emption Settlers in the State of Nebraska*. July 7, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Certain pre-emption settlers in Nebraska to have one year from the passage of this act to make proof and payment. That settlers upon the public domain within the limits of the State of Nebraska, who, prior to the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy, had filed their declaratory statements under the pre-emption laws for tracts once offered at public sale and afterwards included in the lateral limits of any withdrawal for railroad grants, where such lands were at date of filing, as aforesaid, subject to disposal, under said pre-emption laws, and who, through erroneous belief that by such withdrawal the hinds so settled upon and claimed became subject to the designation of “unoffered” lands, have failed to make the proof and payment required by law within one year from the date of alleged settlement, shall be, and are hereby, allowed and authorized to make such proof and payment within one year from the passage of this act, upon showing a full compliance with all other provisions of the pre-emption Proviso.laws: *Provided*, That such settlements were upon the even numbered sections, and do not include cases declared to be invalid by the commissioner of the general land office.
Approved, July 7, 1870.