Chapter 427. to authorize the purchase of certain public lands by the city of Buffalo, Wyoming, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 427.— An Act to authorize the purchase of certain public lands by the city of Buffalo, Wyoming, and for other purposes.June 17, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Buffalo, Wyo., may enter certain public lands for town site, etc., purposes.Location. That the city of Buffalo, Wyoming, is hereby authorized to enter under the town-site laws for town site, cemetery, and park purposes, the north half of the strip of land released from the Fort McKinney military reservation by executive order dated January tenth, eighteen hundred Description.and eighty-nine, and described therein as follows, to wit:
Commencing at the southeast corner of said reservation, and running thence westerly and along the south boundary of said reservation, a distance of one quarter of a mile; running thence due north for a distance of four miles to the north boundary of reservation; thence easterly and along the north boundary of said reservation for the distance of one quarter of a mile to the northeast corner of said reservation: thence southerly and along the east boundary of said reservation for a distance of four miles to the point of beginning, the said north-half of said tract hereby authorized to be entered, containing three hundred *Provisos*.Certain included lands in trust for school purposes.and twenty acres: *Provided, however*, That the five acres of land now used and occupied for school purposes therein by the trustees of school district numbered two, of Johnson County, Wyoming, under the license heretofore given said trustees by the Secretary of War, and described as follows:
Beginning at a point where the north side of Clear Creek crosses the east line of the said military reservation; thence north on the reservation line five hundred feet; thence FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 427-429. 1890.159 west four hundred and thirty-five feet; thence south to the north side of Clear Creek; thence east, along the north side of Clear Creek to the point of beginning, and included in said three hundred and twenty acres, shall be taken by said city in trust for, and shall be conveyed by said city to the said trustees of said school district numbered two, of Johnson County, Wyoming, for school purposes, and without cost to said school district: *Provided*, That if it shallCoal or mineral Lands excluded. be proven to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that any of the lands so authorized to be purchased by said city are valuable for coal or minerals, such portion shall be excluded from such town-site entry.
Approved, June 17, 1890.