Chapter 19. for the relief of certain settlers on restored railroad lands
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CHAP. 19.— An Act for the relief of certain settlers on restored railroad lands.Jan. 13, 1881. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Relief of settlers on restored Railroad lands. That all persons who shall have settled and made valuable and permanent improvements upon any odd numbered section of land within any railroad withdrawal in good faith and with the permission or license of the railroad company for whose benefit the same shall have been made, and with the expectation of purchasing of such company the land so settled upon, which land so settled upon and improved, may, for any cause, be restored to the public domain, and who, at the time of such restoration, may not be entitled to enter and acquire title to such land under the preemption, homestead, or timber-culture acts of the United States, shall be permitted, at auy time within three months after such restoration, and under such .rules and regulations as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may prescribe, to purchase not to exceed one hundred and sixty acres in extent of the same by legal subdivisions, at the price of two dollars and fifty cents per acre, and to receive patents therefor.
Approved, January 13, 1881.