Chapter 871.
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CHAP. 871.— An act to protect purchasers of lands lying in the vicinity of Denver, Colorado, heretofore withdrawn by the Executive Department of the Government as lying within the limits of certain railroad grants, and afterward held to lie without such limitsAugust 13, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Purchasers of lands from railroads near Denver may enter at homestead rates. That as to all lands lying in the vicinity of Denver, in the State of Colorado, heretofore withdrawn by the Executive Department of the Government for the use or benefit of the Union Pacific Railway Company, eastern division, and the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company, or their or either of their successors, under the construction heretofore, placed by the Executive Department of the Government upon the act of Congress entitled “An act to authorize the transfer of lands grantedVol. 15, p. 324. to the Union Pacific Railway Company, eastern division, between Denver and the point of its connection with the Union Pacific Railroad, to the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company, and to expedite the completion of railroads to Denver, in the Territory of Colorado,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, construing the grant in said act mentioned to be one continuous grant west of Fort Riley, in Kansas, through Denver, Colorado, to Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, and which lands have been sold by said companies, or either of them, or their or either of their successors prior to December ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, to citizens of the United States, or to persons who have declared their intention to become such citizens, the holder of the title under such purchase from the railroad company, unless he be a director or other officer of the Union Pacific Railway Company, may, upon making proof of such purchase at the proper land office, and the further proof of the time of his or, if he claim by inheritance, his ancestor’s purchase, that he or his ancestor relied in good faith upon the validity of the title of such railroad companies, and that such purchase was made for a valuable consideration, enter and pay for said lands at the ordinary Government price for like lands, and patents shall issue therefor to the holder of such title and inure to the benefit of the original purchaser and all claiming under him: *Provided*, That*Provisos*.Adverse claimants. nothing herein shall be held to dispossess or determine the rights of parties who may hold adversely to each other under purchase from the railroad company: *And provided further*, That a mortgage orMortgages. pledge to secure the payment of money shall not be considered a purchase under the provisions of this act.
Approved, August 13, 1888. Chapter 872: to authorize the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company to extend a side track into square number ten hundred and twenty-five, in the city of Washington. Chapter 872 25 Stat. 439 1888-08-13 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-23 50 1 public
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