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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 28 STAT. · December 29, 1894 · Chapter 14

Chapter 14. To amend section three of an Act to withdraw certain public lands from private entry, and for other purposes, approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine

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CHAP. 14.— An Act To amend section three of an Act to withdraw certain public lands from private entry, and for other purposes, approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.December 29, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Completion of entry by settlers unavoidably absent.Vol. 25, p. 854. That section three of the said Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, be amended by adding thereto the following provision:
That if any such settler has heretofore forfeited his or her entry for any of said reasons, such person shall be permitted to make entry of not to exceed a quarter section on any public land subject to entry under the homestead law, and to perfect title to the same under the same conditions in every respect as if he had not made the former entry. Approved, December 29, 1894. Chapter 15: To perfect the title to a quarter section of land in the town of Yuma, Colorado. Chapter 15 28 Stat. 599 1894-12-29 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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