Chapter 52. to extend the northern boundary of the State of Nebraska
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CHAP. 52.— An Act to extend the northern boundary of the State of Nebraska.Mar. 28, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Northern boundary of State of Nebraska extended. That the northern boundary of the State of Nebraska shall be, and hereby is, subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, extended so as to include all that portion of the 36 Territory of Dakota lying south of the forty-third parallel of north latitude and east of the Kcyapaha River and west of the main channel of the Missouri River; and when the Indian title to the lauds thus described shall be extinguished, the jurisdiction over said lands shall be, and hereby is, ceded to the State of Nebraska, and subject to all the conditions and limitations provided in the act of Congress admitting Nebraska into the Union, and the northern boundary of the State shall be extended to said forty-third parallel as fully and effectually as if said lands had been included in the boundaries of said State at the time of its admission to the Union; reserving to the United States the *Proviso*.original right of soil in said lands and of disposing of the same: *Provided*, That this act, so far as jurisdiction is concerned, shall not take effect until the President shall, by proclamation, declare that the Indian title to said lands has been extinguished, nor shall it take effect until the Conditions.State of Nebraska shall have assented to the provisions of this act; and if the State of Nebraska shall not by an act of its legislature consent to the provisions of this act within two years next after the passage hereof, this act shall cease and be of no effect Approved, March 28, 1882.