Chapter 211. To provide for the validation of affidavits made before United States Commissioners in all land entries
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CHAP. 211.— An Act To provide for the validation of affidavits made before United States Commissioners in all land entries.August 4, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Entries on affidavits before court commissioner validated. That all entries under the homestead, preemption, timber-culture,or desert-hind law made between May twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and the date of approval of this Act, and which are based on-affidavits made before a United States court commissioner, instead of a United States circuit court commissioner, as provided by the Act of May twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety (twenty-sixth Statute, one hundred and twenty-one), areVol. 26, p. 121.Final proofs. hereby validated, if no other objection exists; and all final proofs on entries of the classes mentioned made before a United States court commissioner, not a United States circuit court commissioner, between the dates aforesaid will be adjudicated in the same manner as if said proofs were made before an officer authorized by law to take such testimony.
Sec. 2. That all entries under the homestead, preemption, timber-culture,Entries based on certain affidavits validated. or desert-land law, based on affidavits made before any officer 228 authorized to administer oaths in the State or Territory in which such entries were made, and where such affidavits were made in accordance with the regulations and decisions of the General Land Office prior to the passage of the Act of May twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety, are hereby validated, if no other objection exists.
Approved, August 4, 1894.