Chapter 258. To provide for the sale of isolated tracts of public land in Imperia County, California
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CHAP. 258.— An Act To provide for the sale of isolated tracts of public land in Imperia County, California. March 3, 1909.[[[S. 9373](/us/bill/70/s/9373).][[[Public. No. 311](/us/pl/70/311)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That all the allotted portionsPublic lands.Sale of isolated tracts in Imperial County, Cal., authorized.Description. of townships thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen, south of ranges eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen, and of fractional township seventeen south, of ranges fifteen and sixteen, all east of San Bernardino meridian, which are ten chains or less in width and lie between or abut on entered or patented lands, shall be sold at private sale for cash, at such price and under such regulationsPrice per acre. as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe, but not at less than two dollars and fifty cents an acre: *Provided*, That any entryman*Proviso.*Preference rights. or owner of such entered or patented tracts shall have a preferred right to buy one-half of all such lots as abut on lands held under his entry or owned by him within six months after the time when the said Secretary shall fix the price of such tracts, and this preferred right shall not prevent such entryman or owner from buying all of any such abutting lots as may remain unsold at the expiration of said six months.
Approved, March 3, 1909.