Chapter 200. to provide for the survey and transfer of that part of the Fort Randall military reservation in the State of Nebraska to said State for school and other purposes
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CHAP. 200.— An Act to provide for the survey and transfer of that part of the Fort Randall military reservation in the State of Nebraska to said State for school and other purposes.March 3, 1893. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Fort Randall Military Reservation, Nebr. That the odd numbered sections in the portion of the Fort Randall military reservation situated in the State of Nebraska, after the same shall have been surveyed as herein provided, may be selected by the State of Nebraska at any timeOdd sections granted to Nebraska as school indemnity lands. within one year after the tiling of the official plats of survey in the district land office as a part of the lands granted to said State as school indemnity for school lands lost in place under the provisions of “An act to provide for the admission of the State of Nebraska intoVol. 14, p. 391. the Union,” approved February ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven: *Provided*, That no existing lawful rights under any of theProvisos.Existing rights. land laws of the United States providing for the disposition of the public lands shall be prejudiced by this act: *And provided further*, That said lands shall be accepted by said State of Nebraska in fullAcceptance. satisfaction of lawful claims now existing, or that may hereafter arise, for school-land indemnity for a corresponding number of acres, upon assignment of the bases of the claims by description and selection in accordance with the regulations of the Interior Department within the period of limitation aforesaid; such selections to be equally distributed, so far as practicable, among the several townships Sec. 2.
That even numbered sections, and all of the odd numberedRemaining sections, open to homestead settlement. sections in said reservation not selected under the provisions of section one of this act. shall be open to settlement under the homestead law only: *Provided*, That before said lands shall be opened to settlement*Proviso*.Commission of appraisement. under this section, the Secretary of the Interior shall appoint a commission of three disinterested citizens of the United States, who shall appraise said lands and fix the value of each quarter section, and persons who may take such lands under the homestead laws, shall payPayment for lands. for such lands in three equal installments, at times to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, and they shall also comply with all provisions of the homestead laws of the United States.
Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorizedPublic surveys extended. and directed to cause the lands embraced in that part of the said military reservation of Fort Randall in the State of Nebraska to be regularly surveyed by an extension of the public surveys over the surveyed portions of the same. Approved, March 3, 1893.