Chapter 162.
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CHAP. 162.— An act for the relief of Harriet Young.February 13, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Harriet Young. Time to complete entry under desert-land act extended. That the time to irrigate, improve, and prepare the land to make final proof for that part (it being three hundred and twenty acres) of section numbered thirty-four, township numbered twenty-one north, range four east, lying south of the Missouri River, except eighty acres covered by Sioux half-breed scrip, in Cascade County, Montana Territory, and claimed by Harriet Young, by and under desert-land entry numbered fifteen hundred and fifty-one, made by said Harriet Young at the Helena, Montana, land office on July twelfth, eighteen hundredVol. 19, p. 377. and eighty-six, under desert-land act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and the time to make said improvements to enable final proof to be made upon said land is hereby enlarged and extended for three years from the date of the approval of this act.
This extension shall not be held to determine the character of the land nor to affect any contest now pending, or which may be hereafterContests, etc., not affected. initiated, or as in any wise affecting any right or claim adverse to the claim or entry of said Harriet Young, nor to affect the character of proof required by existing law, except as to the time of making improvements required by law and final proof. Approved, February 13, 1889.