Chapter 2470. For the relief of certain entrymen and settlers within the limits of the Northern Pacific Railway land grant
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CHAP. 2470.— An Act For the relief of certain entrymen and settlers within the limits of the Northern Pacific Railway land grant. May 17, 1906. [[S. 2292](/us/bill/34/s/2292).] [[Public, No. 172](/us/pl/34/172).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the provisions of theNorthern Pacific Railway. Act of July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight (Thirtieth Statutes, pages five hundred and ninety-seven and six hundred and twenty), which provided for the adjustment by the Land Department of conflicting claims to lands within the limits of the grant to the Northern 198Pacific Railroad Company, and also the provisions of the Act of March Relief of settlers on lands granted to.Vol. 30. pp. 597. 620.Vol. 31, p. 950.Provisions extended.second, nineteen hundred and one, entitled “An Act for the relief of settlers under the public land laws to lands within the indemnity limits of the grant to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company.” be, and they hereby are, extended to include any bona tide settlement or entry made subsequent to January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and prior to May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and five, in accordance with the erroneous decision of the Land Department respecting the withdrawal on general route of the Northern Pacific Railroad between Wallula, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, where the same has not *Proviso.*Lien land selection.since been abandoned: *Provided*, That all lieu selections made under this Act shall be confined to lands within the State where the private holdings are situated.
Sec. 2. Effect.That this Act shall become effective upon an acceptance thereof by the Northern Pacific Railway Company being filed with the Secretary of the Interior. Approved, May 17, 1906.