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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 21 STAT. · Dec. 15, 1880 · Chapter 1

Chapter 1. to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to dispose of a part of the Fort Dodge military reservation to actual settlers under the provisions of the homestead laws, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 1.— An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to dispose of a part of the Fort Dodge military reservation to actual settlers under the provisions of the homestead laws, and for other purposes.Dec. 15, 1880. Whereas, that portion of the Fort Dodge military reservation hereinafter describedPortion of Fort Dodge military reservation, in Kansas, opened up to actual settlers. is no longer needed for military purposes: Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to cause all that portion of the Fort Dodge military reservation, in the State of Kansas, being and lying north of land owned and occupied by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company for right of way for its railroad; and to cause the same to be surveyed, sectionized, and subdivided as other public lands, and after said survey to oiler said lands to actual settlers only, under and in accordance with the homestead laws of the United States: *Provided*,*Proviso.* That the said Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company shall have the right to purchase such portion of said reservation as it may need for its use adjoining that now owned by it, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, by paying therefor the price at which the same may be appraised under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.
Approved, December 15, 1880.
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