Chapter CXXVI. to amend the fret Section of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the Disposition of useless military Reservations,” approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one
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CHAP. CXXVI.— An Act to amend the fret Section of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the Disposition of useless military Reservations,” approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.April 29, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That1871, ch. 68.Vol. xvi. p. 430.Patent to issue to John C. Smith for portion of the military hay reserve of Fort Walla-Walla. the first section of an act entitled “An act to provide for the disposition of useless military reservations,” approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, be amended by adding thereto the following proviso:
“*And provided further,* That upon payment of the appraised value by John C. Smith, or his heirs, a patent shall be issued to said Smith, or Ids heirs, for so much of the military hay reserve of Fort Walla-Walla, Washington Territory, as is embraced in the north half of section twenty-six, township number eight north, of range number thirty-five east of the Willamette meridian, so soon after such payment as the said Smith shall prove to the satisfaction of the register and the receiver of the proper land-office that he was in the lawful possession of said land under the preemption laws of the58FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 126, 129, 180. 1872. United States at the time said land was taken by the military authorities for a hay reserve as aforesaid. Approved, April 29, 1872.