Chapter 122.
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CHAP. 122.— An act to confirm certain entries on the public lands. Mar. 3, 1883. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Confirmations of certain entries on the public lands.[21 Stat., 237](/us/stat/21/237). That in all cases where lands reduced in price to one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre by the act of June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, but which have not been offered at public sale at such reduced price, were inadvertently sold at private entry by the officers of the Land Department between the date of the passage of said act and the date of the receipt at the local offices of the instructions of the Commissioner of the General Land Office relative thereto of October tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, the entries so inadvertently permitted to be made by innocent purchasers, and which are regular in all respects except as to time of entry, shall be confirmed as of the dates of entry, respectively: *Provided, however,**Proviso*.
That no valid adverse claim to any of such lands had attached prior to the date of such entry: Approved, March 3, 1883.