Chapter 196. Authorizing the State of Montana to make selections from certain public lands
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CHAP. 196.— An Act Authorizing the State of Montana to make selections from certain public lands.August 3, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Montana.May select lands in Bitter Root Valley.Vol 25, p. 670. That it shall be lawful for the State of Montana to select as a part of the lands granted the said State under the provisions of an Act entitled, “An Act to provide for the division of Dakota into two States, and to enable the people of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington to form constitutions and State governments, and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and to make donations of public lands to such States,” approved February twenty-second, Vol. 26, p, 796.eighteen hundred and eighty nine, and an Act entitled, “An Act to amend sections twenty-two hundred and seventy-five and twenty-two hundred and seventy-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States providing for the selection of lands for educational purposes in lieu of those appropriated for other purposes,” approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, any of the lands in the Bitter Root Valley, lying above the Lo Lo Fork of the Bitter Root Vol. 17, p. 226.River, mentioned and described in an Act entitled, “An Act to provide for the removal of the Flathead and other Indians from the Bitter Root Valley in the Territory of Montana,” approved June fifth, eighteen *Proviso*.Existing rights.hundred and seventy-two: *Provided, however*, That no existing rights to any of the said lands initiated under any of the laws of the United States shall be invalidated by this Act.
Approved, August 3, 1894.