Chapter 19. to extend the time for the payment of pre-emptors on certain public lands in the State of Minnesota and Territory of Dakota
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CHAP. 19.— An Act to extend the time for the payment of pre-emptors on certain public lands in the State of Minnesota and Territory of Dakota.June 12, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Pre-emptors’ time extended in certain cases. That the time at which preemptors on the public lands in the State of Minnesota, including the lands within the Fort Ridgely and Sioux Indian reservations, and the old Sioux Indian reservation in the county of Grant, Territory of Dakota, are now required to make final proof and payment, be, and the same is hereby, extended two years from October first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, in all cases when the preemptor shall make due proof before the register and receiver of the local land office in the district in which their lands are situated that their crops have been destroyed or seriously injured by grasshoppers within two years prior to October first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.
Approved, June 12, 1879.