Chapter 838. To confirm and validate patents to certain lands situated in the Bitter Root Valley, State of Montana, above the mouth of the Lo Lo Fork of the Bitter Root River
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CHAP. 838.— An Act To confirm and validate patents to certain lands situated in the Bitter Root Valley, State of Montana, above the mouth of the Lo Lo Fork of the Bitter Root River. March 25, 1904. [[H. R. 6787](/us/bill/58/hr/6787).] [[Public, No. 71](/us/pl/58/71).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That all patents heretofore Bitter Root Valley, Mont. Patents to certain lands in, confirmed. Vol. 17, p. 226. issued for lands in the Bitter Root Valley, State of Montana, above the mouth of the Ho Lo Fork of the Bitter Root River, designated in the Act of June fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, in desert entries, preemption entries, mining entries, entries under the Act of Vol. 20, p. 89.
June third, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, as extended to all the public-land States by the Act of August fourth, eighteen hundred and Vol. 27, p. 348. ninety-two, commonly known as the timber and stone law, and for lands selected for the benefit of the university of the State of Montana prior to the passage of the Act of August third, eighteen hundred and Vol. 28, p. 222. ninety-four, are hereby confirmed and said patents validated, to all intents and purposes the same as if the law under which said patents were issued was applicable to said lands.
Approved, March 25, 1904.