Chapter 88.
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CHAP. 88.— An act to protect homestead settlers within railway limits and for other purposes.May 6, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands. Homestead settlers in limits of land grants to have additional entry patented without cost, etc. Vol. 20, p. 472. Vol. 21, p. 46. That all homestead settlers on public lands within the railway limits restricted to less than one hundred and sixty acres of land, who have heretofore made or may hereafter make the additional entry allowed either by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, or the act approved July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, after having made final proof of settlement and cultivation under the original entry, shall be entitled to have the lands covered by the additional entry patented without any further cost or proof of settlement and cultivation.
Approved, May 6, 1886.