Chapter 259. To authorize the sale of certain public lands
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CHAP. 259.— An Act To authorize the sale of certain public lands. March 3, 1909.[[[H. R. 21492](/us/bill/70/hr/21492).][[[Public, No. 312](/us/pl/70/312).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, of the United* *States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of thePublic lands.Sale of certain fractional subdivisions in Nebraska.Description. Interior is authorized and directed to sell, upon sealed bids or at public auction, at his discretion, for cash, any or all of the vacant public lands in township eight north, range thirty west of the sixth principal meridian, in the State of Nebraska, which are embraced within the fractional subdivisions which resulted from disconnected surveys; and the expenses of such sale, including the cost of publicationExpenses, etc. of such notices as said Secretary may direct, shall be paid out of the proceeds thereof.
Sec. 2. That the net proceeds of the sales authorized by this Act,Use of proceeds. shall be pro rated by the Secretary of the Interior among and severally paid to the persons or the heirs of the persons who on February thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, were the owners of the lands in sections six, seven, eighteen, nineteen, thirty, and thirty-one, in township eight north, range twenty-nine west of the sixth principal meridian, in the State of Nebraska, in proportion to the loss in area severally sustained by such persons by reason of such disconnected surveys.
Approved, March 3, 1909.