Chapter 133. To amend section twenty-four hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States
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CHAP. 133.— An Act To amend section twenty-four hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States.February 26, 1895. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.[R. S., sec. 2455, p. 449, amended](/us/rs/s2455/p449). That section twenty-four hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: " “Sec. 2455.
It shall he lawful for the Commissioner of the GeneralSales of isolated tracts. Land Office to order into market and sell for not less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre any isolated or disconnected tract or parcel of the public domain less than one quarter section which in bis judgment it would be proper to expose to sale after at least thirty days’ notice by the land officers of the district in which such lands may be situated: *Provided*, That lands shall not become so isolated or disconnected*Provisos*.To be open to home stead entry three years. until the same have been subject to homestead entry for a period of three years after the surrounding land has been entered, filed upon, or sold by the Government: *Provided*, That not more than oneLimit. hundred and sixty acres shall be sold to any one person.”" Approved, February 26, 1895.
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Chapter 133
To amend section twenty-four hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States
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