Chapter 211.
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CHAP. 211.— AN ACT to restore certain lands in Iowa to settlement under the homestead law, and for other purposes.June 15, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Lands withdrawn from Mississippi and Missouri Railroad to be restored to market. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to restore to settlement under the preemption and homestead law, by published notice, all vacant unappropriated lands heretofore withdrawn for the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad, in the State of Iowa, situated more than twenty miles from the amended line of route as located under the act approved June second1864, ch. 103.13 Stat., 95. eighteen hundred and sixty four, entitled “An act to amend an act making a grant of land to the State of Iowa in alternate sections to aid in the construction of certain railroads in said State”, approved May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six: *Provided*, That all actual settlersActual settlers.Entries by. now residing on said lands shall be permitted to enter not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres for each head of a family or single man over twenty-one years of age, embracing improvements, in preference to any other person, on making proof of such settlement in accordance with rules to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior: *And provided further*,Final proof by.
That all actual settlers now residing upon the lauds herein before mentioned shall be permitted to make the final proof now required by law, and receive their patents at the expiration of five yearsPatents to. from the date of their actual settlement. Sec. 2. That this act shall not include any lands embraced in theLands not included.1873, ch. 83.17 Stat., 421. confirmatory act approved January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled “An act to quiet title to certain lands in the State of Iowa.
” Approved, June 15, 1878.