Chapter 1394. For the relief of certain settlers upon Wisconsin Central Railroad and The Dalles military road land grants
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CHAP. 1394.— An Act For the relief of certain settlers upon Wisconsin Central Railroad and The Dalles military road land grants. April 19, 1904. [[S. 987](/us/bill/58/s/987).] [[Public, No. 118](/us/pl/58/118).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public lands. Settlers ejected from certain land grants given credit for residence, etc., on making new entries. That all qualified homesteaders who, under an order issued by the Land Department, bearing date October twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and taking effect November second, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, made settlement upon and improved any portion of an odd-numbered section within the conflicting limits of the grants made in aid of the construction of the Chicago, Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway and the Wisconsin Central Railroad, and were thereafter prevented from completing title to the land so settled upon and improved by reason of the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Wisconsin Central Railroad Company against Forsythe, One hundred and fifty-ninth United States, page forty-six; and all qualified homesteaders who made settlement upon and improved any portion of an odd-numbered section within the conflicting limits of the grants made in aid of the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad and The Dalles military wagon road, under orders issued by the Land Department treating such lands as forfeited railroad lands, and were thereafter prevented from completing title to the land so settled upon and improved by reason of the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Wilcox against Eastern Oregon Land Company, One hundred and seventy-sixth United States, page fifty-one, shall, in making final proof upon homestead entries made for other lands, be given credit for the period of their bona fide residence upon and the amount of their improvements made on the *Provisos*.
Time limit. lands for which they were unable to complete title: *Provided*, That no such person shall be entitled to the benefits of this Act who shall fail to make entry within two years after the passage of this Act: *And Restriction. provided further*, That this Act shall not be considered as entitling any person to make another homestead entry who shall have received the benefits of the homestead law since being prevented, as aforesaid, from completing title to the lands as aforesaid settled upon and improved by him.
Approved, April 19, 1904.