Chapter CCLXVI. to authorise Pre-emptors or Settlers upon Homesteads on the public Land to alienate Portions of their pre-emptions or Homesteads for certain public Purposes
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CHAP. CCLXVI.— An Act to authorise Pre-emptors or Settlers upon Homesteads on the public Land to alienate Portions of their pre-emptions or Homesteads for certain public Purposes.March 3, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatPre-emptors and homestead settlers upon public lands may alienate portions of their estate for certain purposes. any person who has already settled or hereafter may settle on the public lands of the United States, either by pre-emption, or by virtue of the homestead law or any amendments thereto, shall have the right to transfer by warranty, against his or her own acts, any portion of his or her said pre-emption or homestead for church, cemetery, or school purposes, or for the right of way of railroads across such pre-emption or homestead, and the transfer for such public purposes shall in no way vitiate the right to complete and perfect the title to their pre-emptions or homesteads.
Approved, March 3, 1873.