Chapter 202. To restore the lands embraced in the Fort Lewis Military Reservation, in the State of Colorado, to the public domain
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CHAP. 202.— An Act To restore the lands embraced in the Fort Lewis Military Reservation, in the State of Colorado, to the public domain.May 19, 1896. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the lands included in the Fort Lewis Military Reservation, Colo. Restored to public domain. Fort Lewis Military Reservation, in Colorado, established by Executive order of date January twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and located in townships thirty-four and thirty-five north, of ranges ten, eleven, and twelve west of the New Mexico principal meridian, are hereby restored to the public domain.
Sec. 2. That said lands shall be subject to occupation, settlement, Open to entry. entry, purchase, and disposal under the public land laws of the United States, except so much thereof as may be embraced in sections heretofore reserved for school purposes, to wit, sections thirty-three, thirty-four, School sections. and thirty-five, in township thirty-five north, of range eleven west; also sections nine, ten, eleven, and twelve, in township thirty-four north, of range eleven west, and also what will be sections one, two, three, and four, in township thirty-four north, of range eleven west, when surveyed: *Provided,* That nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to *Proviso.* Vested rights. interfere with any rights which may have accrued previous to the withdrawal of said lands for the purposes of such reservation, and excluding all general school sections.
Approved, May 19, 1896. 124FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 203–205. 1896.