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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 21 STAT. · May 8, 1880 · Chapter 84

Chapter 84.

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CHAP. 84.— An act to authorize the sale of Fort Logan, Montana Territory, and to establish a new post on the frontier.May 8, 1880. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mussel Shell River—establishment of now military posts. That the Secretary of War be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to establish a new military post at or near the Mussel Shell River in the Territory of Montana, as he may deem best for the protection of the frontier from Indian *Proviso*.Limit of cost.incursions: *Provided*, The total cost of the same shall not exceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. The Secretary' of War is hereby authorized and directed, afterSale of Fort Logan, Montana.Proceeds of sale. due notice, to sell at public auction or otherwise dispose of in parcels or otherwise, as he may deem most advantageous to the government, the site, reservation and buildings of Fort Logan, Montana Territory, and re invest the proceeds of such sale in the erection of the post authorized by the first section of this act: *Provided*, That such portion *Proviso*.of said buildings, or of the materials thereof, as can be, profitably removed to said new post, may be reserved from sale and so removed.
Approved, May 8, 1880. Chapter 85: making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and for other purposes. Chapter 85 21 Stat. 114 1880-05-11 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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