Chapter 569. Permitting the town of Montrose, Colorado, to enter one hundred and sixty acres of land for reservoir and water purposes
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CHAP. 569.— An Act Permitting the town of Montrose, Colorado, to enter one hundred and sixty acres of land for reservoir and water purposes. February 18, 1903.[[Public, No. 100](/us/pl/34/100).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the town of Montrose,Montrose, Colo.Granted land for reservoir, etc., purposes. in the State of Colorado, is hereby authorized to enter and receive patent for the lands hereinafter described, by and in the name of the mayor of said town, and in trust for it, for reservoir and water purposes, upon its paying one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre therefor,Price per acre.Description. namely:
Beginning at a point one and three-fourths miles north and three miles west of the quarter section corner on the west line of section eighteen, township forty-eight north, range six west, of the New Mexico principal meridian; thence north two thousand six hundred and forty feet; thence west two thousand six hundred and forty feet; thence south two thousand six hundred and forty feet; thence east two thousand six hundred and forty feet to the place of beginning, and containing one hundred and sixty acres of unsurveyed, nonmineral, mountain land, which should, if the Government survey was extended to said locality, constitute the south half of the northeast quarter and the north half of the southeast quarter of section four, township forty-eight north, range seven west, New Mexico principal meridian, in Montrose County, State of Colorado: *Provided*, That nothing herein contained*Proviso*.Adverse rights not affected. shall be so construed as to impair any existing valid adverse rights to any portion of said land.
Approved, February 18, 1903.