Chapter 833. Granting homesteaders on the abandoned Fort Fetterman Military Reservation in Wyoming the right to purchase one quarter section of public land on said reservation as pasture or grazing land
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CHAP. 833.— An Act Granting homesteaders on the abandoned Fort Fetterman Military Reservation in Wyoming the right to purchase one quarter section of public land on said reservation as pasture or grazing land. March 3, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That each person who has Fort Fetterman Military Reservation, Wyo. Homesteaders may purchase pasture or grazing land.exercised the right of homestead entry on the abandoned Fort Fetterman reservation in the State of Wyoming shall, upon proper proof of settlement and homestead upon land covered by said entry, be entitled to the right to purchase, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, not exceeding one quarter section of the public lands on said reservation as pasture or grazing land not otherwise disposed of: *Provided*, That land so purchased be unfitted for cultivation and homestead entry by reason of lack of water for irrigating purposes or otherwise: *And provided further*, That said purchase of pasture or *Provisos*. —land unfitted for cultivation only. —limit of entry.grazing land shall not, with the land heretofore entered by the applicant, exceed in the aggregate three hundred and twenty acres.
Approved, March 3, 1901.