Chapter 251.
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CHAP. 251.— An act to amend Section two of an act approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, being “An act for the relief of settlers on public lands.”July 26, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands. That section two of an act Vol. 21, p, 141.approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled “An act for the relief of settlers on public lands,” be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 2. In all cases where any person has contested, paid the land-officeNotice to contestant of relinquishment of contestee’s claim. fees, and procured the cancellation of any preemption, homestead, or timber-culture entry, he shall be notified by the register of the land office of the district in which such laud is situated of such cancellation, and shall be allowed thirty days from date of such notice to *Provisos*.enter said lands: *Provided*, That said register shall be entitled to a fee Fee.of one dollar for the giving of such notice, to be paid by the contestant and Death of contestant not to abate rights.not to be reported: *Provided further*, That should any such person who has initiated a contest die before the final termination of the same, said contest shall not abate by reason thereof, but his heirs who are citizens of the United States, may continue the prosecution under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and said heirs shall be entitled to the same rights under this act that contestant would have been if his death had not occurred.
" Approved, July 26, 1892.