Chapter 1424. To amend section twenty-two hundred and eighty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States
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CHAP. 1424.— An Act To amend section twenty-two hundred and eighty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States. March 3, 1905. [[S. 6757](/us/bill/58/s/6757).] [[Public, No. 157](/us/pl/58/157).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section twenty-twoHomestead settlers.Right of transfer of.[R. S., sec. 2288, p. 119](/us/rs/s2288/p119), amended. hundred and eighty-eight or the Revised Statutes be amended so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 2288. Any bona fide settler under the preemption, homestead,Right of transfer extended. or other settlement law shall have the right to transfer, by warranty against his own acts, any portion of his claim for church, cemetery, or school purposes, or for the right of way of railroads, telegraph, telephones, canals, reservoirs, or ditches for irrigation or drainage across it: and the transfer for such public purposes shall in no way vitiate the light, to complete and perfect the title to his claim.
” " Approved, March 3, 1905.