Chapter 204. to provide for the disposal of the Fort Sedgwick military reservation, in the States of Colorado and Nebraska, to actual settlers under the provisions of the homestead laws
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CHAP. 204.— An Act to provide for the disposal of the Fort Sedgwick military reservation, in the States of Colorado and Nebraska, to actual settlers under the provisions of the homestead laws.May 14, 1890. Whereas the tract of land in the States of Colorado and NebraskaPreamble. known as the Fort Sedgwick military reservation is no longer needed or used for military purposes, and has been abandoned as a military reservation by Executive authority: Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Fort Sedgwick military reservation, Colorado and Nebraska.Disposal to actual settlers., That the lands embraced in the former military reservation known as the Fort Sedgwick, in the States of Colorado and Nebraska, having been surveyed according to law, shall, from and after the passage of this act, be subject to disposal, to actual settlers thereon, as lands held at theAt minimum price under homestead laws.*Proviso*.Rights of actual residents. minimum price, according to the provisions of the homestead laws only: *Provided*, That any person who, prior to the passage of this act, may have become an actual resident with permanent improvements thereon, may, if living, enter one quarter section of said land, to include his residence and improvements, under the provisions of the homestead laws, notwithstanding he may have previously exhausted his rights thereunder; or, if deceased, his heirs may enterRights of heirs. such quarter section and may perfect title thereto in like manner as if the land had been entered by the deceased settler during his lifetime.
Approved, May 14, 1890.