Chapter 895. to establish a land-office at Lamar, Colorado
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CHAP. 895.— An Act to establish a land-office at Lamar, Colorado.August 4, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Bent land-district established in Colorado.Boundaries. That all that portion of the State of Colorado bounded and described as follows: Commencing at a point on the eastern boundary-line of said State where the second correction-line south intersects said boundary-line, and running thence on said second correction-line south to the line dividing ranges numbered fifty two and fifty-three; thence south on said range line to the southern boundary-line of said State; thence east on the southern boundary-line of said State to the eastern boundary-line of said State; thence north on the eastern boundary-line of said State to the place of beginning, be, and is hereby, constituted a new and separate land district, to be Land office to be at Lamar, Colo.Register and receiver to be appointed.called the Bent land district, the land office for which shall be located in the town of Lamar, county of Bent, in the said State of Colorado.
Sec. 2. That the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint a register and a receiver of public moneys for said district; and said officers shall reside in the place where said land office is located, and shall have the same powers and shall discharge similar duties and receive the same fees and emoluments as other officers discharging like duties in the other land-offices of the State of Colorado. Approved, August 4, 1886.