Chapter 1347. To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to reclassify the public lands of Alabama
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CHAP. 1347.— An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to reclassify the public lands of Alabama. March 27, 1906. [[H. R. 16381](/us/bill/34/hr/16381).] [[Public, No. 68](/us/pl/34/68).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Alabama.Public lands to be reclassified. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to reclassify the. public lands of Alabama, so as to determine which of said lands are in fact agricultural lands and which mineral lands, and to decide which of said lands Survey.should be subject to homestead entry, and to that end he is hereby authorized and empowered to employ such expert mineralogist, assayists, and civil engineers as may be necessary to designate and survey said mineral and agricultural lands.
Sec. 2. Agricultural lands subject to homestead entry.That upon receipt of the report of the parties designated to make such classification, all lands designated thereby as agricultural shall be subject to homestead entry as such. Sec. 3. Appropriation.That for the purpose of carrying out this Act there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise expended, the sum of live thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Approved, March 27, 1906.