Chapter 110. Granting to the State of Kansas the abandoned Fort Hays Military Reservation, in said State, for the purpose of establishing an experiment station of the Kansas Agricultural College, and a western branch of the Kansas State Normal School thereon, and for a public park
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CHAP. 110.— An Act Granting to the State of Kansas the abandoned Fort Hays Military Reservation, in said State, for the purpose of establishing an experiment station of the Kansas Agricultural College, and a western branch of the Kansas State Normal School thereon, and for a public park. March 28, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Fort Hays Military Reservation granted State of Kansas. That the abandoned Fort Hays Military Reservation and all the improvements thereon, situated in the State of Kansas, be, and the same are hereby, granted to said —conditions.
State upon the conditions that said State shall establish and maintain perpetually thereon, first, an experiment station of the Kansas Agricultural College; second, a western branch of the Kansas State Normal School, and that in connection therewith the said reservation shall be *Provisos*. —acceptance, etc. used and maintained as a public park: *Provided*, That said State shall, within five years from and after the passage of this Act, accept this grant, and shall by proper legislative action establish on said reservation an experiment station of the Kansas Agricultural College and a —reversion. western branch of the Kansas State Normal School; and whenever the lands shall cease to be used by said State for the purposes herein mentioned the same shall revert to the United States: *Provided further*, Valid land claims not affected.
That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to any tract or tracts within the limits of said reservation to which a valid claim has attached, by settlement or otherwise, under any of the public land laws of the United States. Approved, March 28, 1900.