Chapter 9. Setting apart a tract of land to be used as a cemetery by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Central City, Colorado. *be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Américain Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the InteriorPublic lands.be, and is hereby,
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CHAP. 9.—An Act Setting apart a tract of land to be used as a cemetery by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Central City, Colorado. *be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Américain Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the InteriorPublic lands.be, and is hereby, authorized to set apart, from and out of the mineral lands in Eureka mining district, Gilpin County. State of ColoradoGrant to Odd Fellows, of Central City, Colo., as a cemetery.(such lands having been heretofore returned to the land office at Central City as mineral lands), a tract of laud not exceeding seven acres in extent, to be used by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Central City, Colorado, as a cemetery, and being all that portion of the following- described tract not included in any prior valid claim, namely:
Description.Beginning at corner numbered one, a granite stone twenty-four by nine by four inches, set fifteen inches in the ground, chiseled 1/I.O.O.F, whence the west quarter corner section seven, township three south, range seventy-two west of the sixth principal meridian bears south seventy-six degrees twenty-five minutes and six seconds east nine thousand three hundred and thirteen and two-tenths feet; corner numbered two, survey numbered seven hundred and eighty-nine, Carroll lode, bears north eighty-one degrees and twenty-two minutes east five hundred and eighteen and three-tenths feet; southwest corner of stone powder magazine bears south eighty-six degrees and six minutes east one hundred and twenty-five and eight-tenths feet; thence south twenty-one degrees and eighteen minutes west four hundred and thirty feet to corner numbered two, a granite stone twenty-seven by ten by six inches, set fifteen inches in the ground, chiseled 2/I.O.O.F., whence cross cut on ledge of rock chiseled W x 2 bears north twenty- seven degrees and twenty-three minutes east forty-one and three- tenths feet; thence north eighty-three degrees and twenty-seven minutes west five hundred and eighty-nine and four-tenths feet, to corner numbered three, a quartz stone twenty-seven by eight by six inches, set eight inches in the ground, on bed rock, with mound of stones, chiseled 3/I.O.O.F., whence a cross cut on ledge of rock chiseled W x 3 bears south sixty-four degrees and thirty-three minutes west twenty-four and nine-tenths feet; thence north twenty-one degrees and eighteen minutes east five hundred and eighty feet to corner numbered four, a granite stone thirty by ten by five inches, set fifteen inches in the ground, chiseled 4/I.O.O.F., whence cross cut on ledge of rock chiseled W x 4 bears south thirty-five degrees and fifty-four minutes west ninety-six and nine-tenths feet; thence south sixty-eight degrees and forty-two minutes east five hundred and seventy feet to place of beginning, containing six and sixty-one one-hundredths acres, said lands now being in the use and occupation of said association.
Sec.2.Patent to issue.That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to confirm the title to the said described tract of land to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Central City, and to cause a patent to be issued for said land to be used for cemetery purposes only: *Provided,* *Proviso.*That nothing contained in this grant shall be so construed as to prevent future applications for the extension of lode claims within the confines of the cemetery and claiming the mineral found there, all mining operations within the bounds of the land there set apart to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for cemeterySubsurface mineral rights retained.pur- 893poses to be conducted beneath the surface and so as in no way to disturb the graves of the dead buried there or to mar the surface of the ground.
Approved, January 12, 1911.