Chapter 29. to authorize the Secretary of War to relinquish and turn over to the Interior Department certain parts of the Camp Douglas Military Reservation, in the Territory of Utah
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CHAP. 29.— An Act to authorize the Secretary of War to relinquish and turn over to the Interior Department certain parts of the Camp Douglas Military Reservation, in the Territory of Utah.Jan. 21, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Camp Douglas Military Reservation, UtaII.Certain parts restored to public domain. That the Secretary of War be, and is hereby, authorized to relinquish and turn over to the Department of the Interior, for restoration to the public domain, such parts of what is known as the Camp Douglas Military Reservation, in the Territory of Utah, as are embraced in the claim of Mr.
Charles Popper; the same being in accordance with the recommendations of the board of officers comprised of I. N. Palmer, colonel Second Cavalry, president of the board; F. F. Flint, colonel Fourth Cavalry; and George O. Weber, first-lieutenant Fourth Infantry, recorder, constituted for the purpose of exandning the claim of the said Charles Popper by order of Brigadier 285 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 29, 30. 1385. General Crook, dated, Omaha, Nebraska, May seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and approved by the Secretary of War, and described as follows, namely:
The northwest quarter of the southeastDescription. quarter, and the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter, and the northwest fractional quarter of the southwest fractional quarter, and the north half of the southeast quarter of the southwest fractional quarter, and the north fractional half of the southwest fractional quarter of the southwest fractional quarter of section thirty three, township one north, range one east of the Salt Lake meridian, containing in all one hundred and fifty-one and eighty-one hundredths acres, more or less, and all lying within the said Camp Douglas Military Reservation.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior, after said restoration, shall,Secretary of Interior to cause survey to be made. at the expense of said Charles Popper, cause, the lands to be surveyed and segregated from the reservation by the surveyor-General of Utah; and that at any time within ninety days after the restoration of the lands the said Charles Popper shall be permitted Charles Popper to have right to entry of same for ninety days after.to make a private entry of the said lands at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre; and during the ninety days no other person or persons shall be permitted to make an entry of the same, or to commence any proceedings to obtain title thereto under the homestead law or any other laws by which the lands of the United States are disposed of.
Approved, January 21st, 1885.