Chapter 150. requiring purchasers of lands in the Pawnee Reservation, in the
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CHAP. 150.— An Act requiring purchasers of lands in the Pawnee Reservation, in the .State of Nebraska, to make payment, and for other purposes.April 22, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Pawnee Indian Reservation lands, Nebr.Forfeiture and resale of, for default in payments, etc.Purchasers in default.Vol, 19, p. 28. That all purchasers of lands of the Pawnee Indian Reservation in Nebraska who may be in default of payment of either principal or interest under the provisions of the act approved April tenth, eighteen hundred seventy-six, and the terms of sale thereunder, are hereby required to make full and complete payment therefor to the Secretary of the Interior Time limit to complete purchase.Default and forfeiture.within two years from the passage of this act; and any person in default thereof for a period of sixty days thereafter shall forfeit his right to the lands purchased and any and all payments made thereon.
Sec. 2. Secretary of Interior to declare same, etc. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to declare forfeited all lands sold under said act of eighteen hundred and seventy-six full payment for which shall not be made in accordance with the provisions of this act; and he shall Re-sale.Terms, time, etc.thereupon cause all lands so declared forfeited to be resold at public-auction in Nebraska in such manner and upon such terms as he may deem advisable, except that the time for full and complete payment shall not exceed one year, with clause of absolute forfeiture in case of *Proviso*.Limitations of sale.default: *And provided*, That the same shall be sold to the highest bidder, but for not less than the appraised value, nor less than two. dollars and fifty cents an acre.
Approved, April 22, 1890.