Chapter 69. for the relief of George G
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CHAP. 69.— An Act for the relief of George G. Snyder.Apr. 5, 1882. Whereas by the fifteenth section of an act of Congress approved SeptemberGeorge G. Snyder,Preamble. ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty, entitled “An act to establish a Territorial government for Utah”, it was provided “that when the 654 lands in the said Territory shall be surveyed tinder the direction of the Government of the United States, preparatory to bringing the same into market, sections sixteen and thirty-six in each township in said Territory shall be, and the same are hereby, reserved for the purpose of being applied to schools in said Territory and in the States and Territories hereafter to be erected out of them”; and Whereas George G.
Snyder did, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, settle upon an unstirveyed tract of land in said Territory, upon which he has since resided and made valuable improvements, which tract, when surveyed, was found to be the east half of the northwest quarter and west half of the northeast quarter of section sixteen, township two south, range four east; and Whereas said tracts are not subject to entry under the homestead or other laws owing to the reservation created by the organic act of said Territory above recited:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Homestead entry., That the said George G. Snyder be, and he hereby is, authorized to enter the east half of northwest quarter and west half of northeast quarter of section sixteen, township two south, range four cast, Utah Territory, as a homestead, under the provisions of the homestead law; and upon showing full compliance with the provisions of said law the said Snyder shall be entitled to have Patent.and receive a patent therefor, and thereupon other lands in equal amount in lieu thereof shall be selected, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for the uses and purposes expressed in said section fifteen of the act of Congress approved September ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty.
Approved, April 5, 1882.