Chapter 12. to provide for the disposal of certain abandoned military reservations in the State of Wyoming
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CHAP. 12.— An Act to provide for the disposal of certain abandoned military reservations in the State of Wyoming.December 22, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Fort Fetterman, Wyo. That all public lands now remaining undisposed of within the abandoned military reservations in the 409 State of Wyoming, known as FortAbandoned reservations opened to home stead entry. Fetterman hay reservation, the Fort Fetterman old wood reserve, situated in township thirty-two north, ranges seventy-four and seventy-five west, established August twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and the Fort Fetterman new wood reserve, situated in townships twenty eight and twenty-nine, range seventy-one west, are hereby made subject to disposal under the homestead law only: *Provided*, That actual occupants thereon upon the first*Provisos*.Preference to occupants. day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, shall have the preference right to make one entry not exceeding one quarter section under existing land laws if qualified, which shall include their respective improvements: *Provided further*, That any of such lands as are occupiedMineral lands. for town-site purposes and any of the lands that may be shown to be 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.
Approved, December 22, 1892.