Chapter 336. Concerning certain homestead lands in Florida
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CHAP. 336.— An Act Concerning certain homestead lands in Florida. February 26, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That all persons actually occupyingFlorida.Timber destroyed by cyclone may be sold by homestead settlers. homesteads in good faith in any of the following-named counties, in said State of Florida, to wit, Alachua, Lafayette, Levy, Suwannee, Bradford, Baker, and Columbia, at the time of the storm on or about September twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, are hereby granted the right to sell or otherwise dispose of the fallen timber on their homestead entries felled by said storm, and to devote the proceeds of such sale or barter to the improvement of their homesteads or support of themselves or their families.
Approved, February 26, 1897.