Chapter 40. to restore to the public domain the military reservation known as the Fort Ripley Reservation, in the State of Minnesota, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 40.— An Act to restore to the public domain the military reservation known as the Fort Ripley Reservation, in the State of Minnesota, and for other purposes.April 1, 1880. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Fort Ripley reservation of land restored to the public domain. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to turn over to the Department of the Interior all of the military reservation known as the Fort Ripley reservation, in the State of Minnesota, except a strip or tract of land fifty feet in width from the center of the railroad track on each side of said track of the Western Railroad Company of Minnesota, asWestern Railroad Company of Minnesota. the said track is located and constructed, being a distance of about fifteen miles across said reservation on the east side of the Mississippi River; together with a tract of laud fifteen hundred feet in length and three hundred feet in width for depot and station purposes at the present location of the Fort Ripley side track, the same being for right ofRight of way.1857, ch. 99,Stat., 11, 195.1865, ch. 105,Stat., 13, 526.Subjected to entry. way for said railroad as heretofore granted by acts of Congress in the years eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and eighteen hundred and sixty- five and which is hereby granted for that purpose.
Sec. 2. All the lands embraced in said Fort Ripley reservation hereby required to be turned over to the Secretary of the Interior shall be subject to entry by actual settlers under the preemption and homestead laws as minimum lands, of the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, from and after the passage of this act. The rights of all actualRights of actual settlers preserved. settlers entitled to the benefits of the preemption or homestead laws who now occupy said lands shall date from the day of their actual settlement thereon; and in perfecting their titles thereto under the homestead orTitles perfected. preemption laws the time such settlers have occupied and improved their said lands shall be allowed: *Provided,* That all persons who purchased*Proviso.* and paid for any of said lands at the sale authorized by the War Department in the year anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-seven and paid therefor the minimum price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre shall be entitled to patents for the same without further payment: *And provided further,* That the Secretary of the Interior shall,*Proviso.* prior to offering any quarter section, half quarter section, or quarter quarter section whereon are situate any public buildings or improvements, erected or made by the government, cause the said tracts with the improvements thereon to be appraised by three disinterested persons, 70 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. On. 40, 41, 42, 43. 1880. and upon his approval of such appraisement shall dispose of said tracts at not less than the appraised value. Sec. 3. Repeal provisions. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, April 1, 1880.