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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 31 STAT. · May 19, 1900 · Chapter 484

Chapter 484. To provide for the disposal of the Fort Buford abandoned military reservation, in the States of North Dakota and Montana

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CHAP. 484.— An Act To provide for the disposal of the Fort Buford abandoned military reservation, in the States of North Dakota and Montana. May 19, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Fort Buford abandoned military reservation, North Dakota and Montana. Undisposed of public lands open to entry. That all public lands now remaining undisposed of within the abandoned military reservation in the States of North Dakota and Montana, formerly known as Fort Buford Military Reservation, and which are not otherwise occupied or used for any public purpose, are hereby made subject to disposal under *Provisos*.
Preference right to actual occupants. the homestead, town-site, and desert-land laws: *Provided*, That actual occupants thereon upon the first day of January, nineteen hundred, if otherwise qualified, shall have the preference right to make one entry Town site, coal, and mineral lands. not exceeding one quarter section: *Provided further*, That any of such lands as are occupied for town-site purposes, and any of the lands that may be shown to be valuable for coal or minerals, such lands so occupied for town-site purposes or valuable for coal or minerals shall be disposed of as now provided for lands subject to entry and sale under the town-site, coal, or mineral-land laws, respectively: *Provided further*, Land containing Government buildings, etc.
That this Act shall not apply to any subdivision of land, which subdivision may include adjoining lands to the amount of one hundred and sixty acres, on which any buildings or improvements of the United States are situated, but such lands shall be appraised and sold as now provided by law. Approved, May 19, 1900.
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