Chapter 1276.
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CHAP. 1276.— An act for the protection of actual settlers who have made homesteads or preemption entries upon the public lands of the United States in the State of Florida upon which deposits of phosphate have been discovered since such entries were made.October 1, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Florida.Settlers in good faith on phosphate lands may complete their entries. That any person who has in good faith entered upon any lands of the United States in the State of Florida, subject at the date of said entry to homestead FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 1276, 1277. 1890.663 or preemption entry, and has actually occupied and improved the same for the purpose of making his or her home thereon, under the homestead or preemption laws, prior to the first day of April, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety, shall have the right, upon complying with the further requirements of the law, in other respects to complete such homestead or preemption entry and receive a patent for the land so entered, occupied, and improved, notwithstanding any discovery of phosphate deposits upon or under the surface of any of said lands after such entry was made: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.No knowledge of phosphate deposits. the entryman had no knowledge of the existence of such phosphate deposits upon the land which is the subject of such entry at the date when the settlement thereon was made.
Approved, October 1, 1890. Chapter 1277: granting to the Newport and King’s Valley Railroad Company the right of way through the Siletz Indian Reservation. Chapter 1277 26 Stat. 663 1890-10-01 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 2026-02-21 51 1 public
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