Chapter 666. to provide for the disposal of certain abandoned military reservations in Wyoming Territory
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CHAP. 666.— An Act to provide for the disposal of certain abandoned military reservations in Wyoming Territory.July 10, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Disposal of certain abandoned military reservations in Wyoming.Forts Fetterman, Laramie, Sanders, Steele, and Bridger. That all public lands now remaining undisposed of within the abandoned military reservations in the Territory of Wyoming, known as Forts Fetter-man, (post), Laramie, Sanders, and Steele (post), military reservations. and that portion of the Fort Bridger reservation heretofore abandoned for military purposes, and which are not otherwise occupied or used for any public purpose, are hereby made subject to disposalUnder homestead law.*Provisos*. under the homestead law only: *Provided*, That actual occupants thereon upon the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety, if otherwise qualified, shall have the preference right to make one entry not exceeding one quarter section under either ofPreference right of certain actual occupants. the existing land laws, which shall include their respective improvements: *Provided further*, That any of such lands as are occupied forTown site and mineral lands. town-site purposes, and any of the lands that may be shown to be valuable for coal or minerals; such lands so occupied for town-site purposes, or valuable for coal or minerals, shall be disposed of as now provided for lands subject to entry and sale under the town-site, coal, or mineral land laws, respectively: *Provided further*, That this actLimitation as to certain land subdivisions shall not apply to any subdivision of land, which subdivision may include adjoining lands to the amount of one hundred and sixty acres, on which any buildings or improvements of the United States are situated until the Secretary of the Interior shall so direct: *Provided further*,Vol. 25, p. 158.Fish-hatchery land grant.
That the passage of this act shall not be construed to amend or repeal the act approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled “An act granting certain lands in the Territory of Wyoming for public purposes.” Approved, July 10, 1890.