Chapter 178. for the relief of certain settlers within the late Fort Kearney military reservation in Nebraska
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CHAP. 178.— An Act for the relief of certain settlers within the late Fort Kearney military reservation in Nebraska.June 9, 1880. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Homestead entries of certain set-tiers on Fort Kearney military reservation confirmed.1876, ch. 220, Stat., 19, 94. That the homestead entries numbered seventy-one hundred and eighty-two, seventy-two hundred and twenty-six, seventy-two hundred and thirty-three, seventy-five hundred and eighty-seven, seventy-nine hundred and twenty, and seventy-nine hundred and twenty-one, made at Grand Island, Nebraska, under the act of Congress of July twenty-first, eighteen hundred an I seventy-six, by Morgan T.
Martin, Samuel II. McNutt, Allan D. Randall, John J. Brown, Joseph B. Long, and Matthew O. Riley, as actual settlers, in section thirty-six, township nine north, of range fifteen west, and section thirty-six, township nine north, of range thirteen west, within the late Fort Kearney military reservation be, and the same arc hereby, *Proviso.*confirmed: *Provided,* The State of Nebraska shall, by legislative act, assent thereto; and thereafter the said State shall be entitled to select other lands of equal area for school purposes as indemnity for the lands embraced in said entries, in like manner as by existing law may be done in cases where lands in sections sixteen and thirty-six, appropriated for schools in Nebraska, have been sold, or otherwise disposed of by any act of Congress.
Approved, June 9, 1880.