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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 21 STAT. · June 15, 1880 · Chapter 221

Chapter 221. to provide for the disposal of the Fort Harker military reservation

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CHAP. 221.— An Act to provide for the disposal of the Fort Harker military reservation.June 15, 1880. Fort Harker military reservation in Kansas.Offered for sale.Appraisal. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Settlers’ rights preserved.Sale to settlers. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to turn over to the Secretary of the Interior the Fort Harker military reservation in Kansas for sale, as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Interior shall cause said reservation to be appraised as early as practicable, in tracts not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres each, by three competent disinterested persons, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, and who shall make said appraisement under oath, and upon the approval of such appraisement by the Secretary, he shall offer said reservation for sale by giving such notice as is now required for the sale of public lands.
The persons who may have at the date of the passage of this act settled upon and improved said lands, shall have the prior right to purchase the lands so settled upon at the appraised value thereof, not to exceed Rules and regulations.one hundred and sixty acres, except in the case of a fractional quarter-section to each person, and shall have such reasonable time in which to make payment therefor as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Such portion of said reservation as shall not have been settled upon and improved at the date of the passage of this act shall be sold by the Secretary of the Interior to actual settlers, under such regulations as he may prescribe: *Provided*, That no land shall be sold under the provisions of this act for less than one dollar and a quarter per acre nor at a less price than the appraisal *Proviso*.Price limited to appraised value and £1.25 per acre.thereof.
All sales of land herein provided fur shall be made as nearly as practicable under the rules and regulations now existing for disposing of the public lands of the United States. Approved, June 15, 1880.
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