Chapter 237. To permit a part of the Fort Lyon Military Reservation to be occupied, improved, and controlled for a soldiers’ home by the State of Colorado
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CHAP. 237.— An Act To permit a part of the Fort Lyon Military Reservation to be occupied, improved, and controlled for a soldiers’ home by the State of Colorado. February 17, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That there is hereby grantedFort Lyon Military Reservation.Use of portion granted to Colorado for a soldiers’ home. to the State of Colorado the right to occupy, improve, and control for the purposes of a soldiers’ home, to be established and maintained thereon by said State, section four of township twenty-three south, of range fifty-one west, containing five hundred and fifty-seven acres of the Fort Lyon Military Reservation, to include the buildings located thereon, on condition that said State shall, within three years, establish such home, at which provision shall be made for the care and maintenance of officers, soldiers, sailors, and marines who have served in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States, their dependent parents, widows, or orphans, and under such rules and regulations as said State may provide: *Provided*, That the United States reserves to*Proviso*.Fee, etc., reserved. itself the fee and the right forever to resume possession and dispose of the said lands whenever it shall appear that the State of Colorado has ceased to use the same for such public purpose.
Approved, February 17, 1897.