Chapter 981. To confirm certain forest lieu selections made under the Act approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven
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CHAP. 981.— An Act To confirm certain forest lieu selections made under the Act approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. March 2, 1903.[[Public, No. 138](/us/pl/57/138).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That all bona fide selections Public lands. Selections in lieu of forest lands in Montana confirmed. Vol. 30, p. 36. under the Act approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven (Thirtieth Statutes, thirty-six), of lands in Montana which lie within the territory opened to entry under the provisions of the Act approved May first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, chapter two hundred and thirteen (Twenty-fifth Statutes, one hundred and thirteen Vol. 25, pp. 113–133. to one hundred and thirty-three), entitled “An Act to ratify and confirm Blackfeet Reservation. an agreement with the Gros Ventre, Piegan, Blood, Blackfeet, and River Crow Indians in Montana, and for other purposes,” made prior to the decision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office dated October twentieth, nineteen hundred and two, in the case of George L.
Ramsey, holding that such lands are subject to disposal only under the forms of entry provided by the said Act of May first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed, no other valid objection to the acceptance of such selections appearing. Approved, March 2, 1903.