Chapter 174. for the relief of Priscilla Watson
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CHAP. 174.— An Act for the relief of Priscilla Watson.June 9, 1880. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Priscilla Watson.Relief of. That Priscilla Watson be, and she hereby is, authorized, at any time within one year from and after the date at which the body of the land embraced in the Fort Dalles military reservation in Oregon shall be offered for sale pursuant to the act of Congress of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven,1877, ch. 129, Stat., 19, 406.June 9, 1880. to become the purchaser of that portion of the land embraced within the limits of the said reservation upon which she has made improvements, in consequence of an error of survey, and believing the same to be outside of the said reservation and within the limits of her own land, at such a price as the register and the receiver Of the land-district within which the land is situated shall determine, subject to the approval of the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Approved, June 9, 1880.