Chapter 1634. For the relief of certain settlers upon land within the indemnity limits of the present Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company
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CHAP. 1634.— An Act For the relief of certain settlers upon land within the indemnity limits of the present Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company. April 17, 1906. [[H. R. 10480](/us/bill/34/hr/10480).] [[Public, No. 106](/us/pl/34/106).] *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 railroad grants allowed credit for residence, etc., on making new entries.
That all qualified homesteaders who made settlement upon and improved any of the land hereinafter designated and who were prevented from securing title to such land by reason of the contracts hereinafter described shall, in making final proof upon homestead entries made for other lands, be given credit for the period of their bona fide residence on and the amount of their respective improvements upon the land for which they were so prevented from completing title, including the time of continuous residence upon and improvements of said land while defending in good faith their respective claims thereto as homestead settlers.
The land above referred to is that part of the indemnity grant to the Saint Paul, 121Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company defined by the Acts of Congress dated, respectively, March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven (Eleventh Statutes, page one hundred and ninety-five,Vol. 11, p. 195. chapter ninety-nine), and March third, eighteen hundred and sixty- five (Thirteenth Statutes, page five hundred and twenty-six, chapterVol. 13, p. 526. one hundred and five), which by reason of certain contracts between Reverend John Ireland and the Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company, one dated July seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and one dated March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three (more particularly described in the decision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office contained in his letter of February third, eighteen hundred and ninety- eight, in the appeal of the case of John Ireland against Joseph Bennon and others from the action of the local land office and at Saint Cloud, Minnesota), the said John Ireland and those with whom he contracted to sell certain of said lands, either for himself or for said railway company, were held authorized to purchase from the United States under the provision of section five of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven (Twenty-fourth Statutes, page five hundredVol. 24, p. 556. and fifty-six), after the date upon which the claim of said railway company to receive said lands as indemnity lands had been denied and canceled by the Interior Department: *Provided,* That no such person*Provisos. *Time limit. shall be entitled to the benefits of this Act who shall fail to make entry within two years after the passage thereof: *And provided further, *Restriction.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 so settled upon and improved by him.
Approved, April 17, 1906.