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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 29 STAT. · April 18, 1896 · Chapter 107

Chapter 107. Providing for disposal of lands on abandoned portions of the Fort Assinniboine Military Reservation in Montana, and for the relief of certain settlers thereon

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CHAP. 107.— An Act Providing for disposal of lands on abandoned portions of the Fort Assinniboine Military Reservation in Montana, and for the relief of certain settlers thereon.April 18, 1896. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,*Montana.Abandoned part of Fort Assinniboine reservation opened to entry.Commutation excepted.R. S., sec. 2301, p. 421. That all lands which have been or may hereafter be excluded from the limits of the Fort Assinniboine Military Reservation in the State of Montana shall be open to the operation of the laws regulating homestead entry, except section twenty-three hundred and one of the Revised Statutes, and to entry under the town-site laws and the laws governing the disposal of coal lands, desert lands, and mineral lands, and shall not be subject to sale under the provisions of any Act relating to the sale of abandoned military*Proviso.*Government buildings, etc., reserved. reservations: *Provided,* That if the entire reservation be abandoned for military purposes this Act shall not apply to an area one mile square embracing the Government buildings at Fort Assinniboine.
Sec. 2. That all entries heretofore made in good faith under either thePrevious entries validated. homestead, town-site, desert-land, or mineral-laud laws of the United States upon any of the excluded portions of said Fort Assinniboine Military Reservation shall be held valid, and the Secretary of the Interior is directed to reinstate such entries under either of said laws as he may heretofore have canceled because of a construction based upon the opinion that the laws mentioned in section one of this Act did not al’ply t° the abandoned portions of said reservation.
Approved, April 18, 1896. Chapter 108: Granting to the Atchison and Nebraska Railroad Company and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company, its lessee in perpetuity, the right of way over a part of the Sac and Fox and Iowa Indian Reservation in the States of Kansas and Nebraska. 29 Stat. 95 1896-04-18 Chapter 108 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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