Chapter 328. To amend section one of an Act to provide for the entry of lands in Greer County, Oklahoma Territory, to give preference right to settlers, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 328.— An Act To amend section one of an Act to provide for the entry of lands in Greer County, Oklahoma Territory, to give preference right to settlers, and for other purposes. March 1, 1899. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Greer County, Okla.Settlers who purchased prior to annexation may perfect title.Vol. 29, p. 490. That section one of an Act to give preference right to settlers in Greer County, Oklahoma Territory, is hereby so amended as to allow parties who have had the benefit of the homestead laws of the United States, and who had purchased lands in Greer County from the State of Texas prior to March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to perfect titles to said lands according to the provisions of section one hereinbefore mentioned, under such regulations as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may prescribe, and according to the legal subdivisions of the FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Chs. 328, 329. 1899. 967 public surveys, if no adverse rights have attached: *Provided,* That no*Proviso.*—limited to 320 acres. settler shall be permitted to acquire to exceed three hundred and twenty acres under this provision. Approved, March 1, 1899.