Chapter 1658. Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue patent to Keystone Camp, Numbered Twenty-eight hundred and seventy-nine, of the Modern Woodmen of America, to certain lands for cemetery purposes
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CHAP. 1658.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue patent to Keystone Camp, Numbered Twenty-eight hundred and seventy-nine, of the Modern Woodmen of America, to certain lands for cemetery purposes. April 23, 1906. [[H. R. 8278](/us/bill/34/hr/8278).] [[Public, No. 117](/us/pl/34/117).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Keystone Camp, No. 2879, Modern Woodmen of America, Keystone, S.
Dak.Land for cemetery purposes patented to. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue a patent to Keystone Camp, Numbered Twenty-eight hundred and seventy-nine, of the Modern Woodmen of America, of the town of Keystone, South Dakota, for cemetery purposes, to the following-described land, to Description.wit: Beginning at the northwesterly corner of the ground for corner numbered one. from which the corner of sections eight, nine, sixteen, and seventeen, township two south, range six east, Black Hills meridian, bears south fifty-seven degrees thirty-seven minutes west, six hundred and thirty-eight and seven-tenths feet; thence north sixty-six degrees forty-three minutes east (variation fifteen degrees fifteen minutes east), five hundred and thirty-two and nine-tenths feet, to corner numbered two; thence north seventy-seven degrees forty-four minutes east, five hundred and fifty-seven and three-tenths feet, to corner numbered three: thence south twenty-one degrees twelve minutes east, two hundred and twenty-six and eight-tenths feet to corner numbered four; thence south fifty-two degrees twenty-seven minutes west, four hundred and seventy-eight and four-tenths feet, to corner numbered five: thence south eighty-one degrees fifty minutes west, seven hundred and twenty and five-tenths feet, to corner numbered six; thence north four degrees fifty-three minutes west, two hundred and seventy- seven and five-tenths feet, to corner numbered one and the place of beginning, containing an area of eight and nine hundred and eighty- seven one-thousandths acres of land, in Pennington County, South Dakota, said patent to contain the provision that said land shall be *Proviso. *Price.used for cemetery purposes only: *Provided,* That the said association pay one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre therefor.
Approved, April 23, 1906.