Chapter 98. For the relief of Wesley Montgomery
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CHAP. 98.— An Act For the relief of Wesley Montgomery.June 6, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Wesley Montgomery.Permitted to enter homestead locution. That the Commissioner of the General Land Office be, and ho is hereby, authorized and required to permit Wesley Montgomery, of Adams County, State of Nebraska, to enter one hundred and sixty acres of public land subject to entry under the homestead law, not mineral nor in the actual occupation of any settler, in lieu of the northeast quarter of section twenty-three, of township twenty-eight north, of range fourteen west, in Iroquois County, Illinois, which land was entered by said Wesley Montgomery on February twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, under the homestead laws, in accordance with instructions of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to the register and the receiver of the date of August ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, the title to which land failed because of a prior disposition of the same, which did not then appear upon the records of the Land Office: *Provided, however*, That*Provisos*.No other entry made.Patent. the said Wesley Montgomery shall not have made any other entry of land of the United States under the homestead laws: *And provided further*, That a final certificate and patent shall issue to the said Wesley Montgomery upon such entry as he may make hereunder without proof of residence and cultivation.
Approved, June 6, 1894.