Chapter 14. To subject lands of former Fort Niobrara Military Reservation and other lands to homestead entry
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CHAP. 14.— An Act To subject lands of former Fort Niobrara Military Reservation and other lands to homestead entry.January 27, 1913.[[H. R. 25764](/us/bill/62/hr/25764).][[Public, No. 351](/us/pl/62/351).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands. Lands on former Fort Niobrara Reservation. etc., Nebr., opened to entry. That the unreserved lands within the former Fort Niobrara Military Reservation, in the State of Nebraska, and the adjacent public lands on the east and south thereof withdrawn from entry by Executive order June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and four, except as hereinafter expressly provided, shall be subject to homestead entry at such time and inHomesteads. such manner and under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, as follows:
All that portion lying north and west of the Niobrara River, together with that part of the south-east. quarter of section twenty-two, the southwest quarter of section twenty-three, the west half of section twenty-six, and all of section twenty-seven, in township thirty-four north, range twenty-seven west, lying south and east of the said Niobrara River, shall be appraised under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, entered and patented under the general provisions of the homestead laws, subject to the payment of the appraised price to be made in three annual payments as prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior; andOne-section entries. all the remaining portion of said lands lying south and east of the said Niobrara River shall be entered and patented under the provisions of the one-section-homestead law for a certain part of Nebraska, approvedVol. 33, p. 547.
April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, and Acts commendatory thereof: *Provided*, That lands open to entry under this*Provisos*.Lieu elections, commutations, etc., not allowed.[R. S., sec. 2306, p. 422](/us/rs/sec2306/p422). Act shall not be subject to disposition under section twenty-three hundred and six of the Revised Statutes of the United States or other form of scrip or lieu selection, nor shall homestead entries made thereof be subject to commutation: *Provided further*, That the SecretaryLands for power purposes. of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to reserve from sale or disposition any lands chiefly valuable for power purposes.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior shall, of such militarySpecial grants.Nebraska. lands, issue patent to the State of Nebraska for the lands it now occupies as a State agricultural experimental station, upon payment of one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre, and shall cause patent to issue to the city of Valentine, upon payment of the appraisedValentine. price, for such area as it may reasonably need for waterworks, water power, and electric-light plant system, and for a fish hatchery, including the lands it now occupies for such purposes, and shall issueStephen F.
Gilman. patent to Stephen F. Gilman, upon payment or the appraised price, to not exceed five acres adjacent to his milldam, and shall causeCharles H, Cornell. patent to issue to Charles H. Cornell, upon payment of the appraised price, not to exceed sixty-eight acres. Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed toSale of military buildings and lands at auction. reserve from entry under this Act a tract of land, not exceeding six hundred and forty acres in area, upon which the buildings used in connection with said military reservation are located, and to sell the lands so reserved and the buildings thereon at public auction at 652 not less than their appraised value within one year from the date of the approval of this Act if the Government shall not have appropriated *Provisos*.Rights reserved.the same to some public purpose: *Provided*, That the disposition of the said military reservation lands shall be subject to rights, if any, acquired by Charles H.
Cornell or by the city of Valentine, when a Sale of lands undisposed of alter three years.village, by any acts of Congress: *Provided further*, That ail lands so opened to settlement under this Act, remaining undisposed of at the expiration of three years from the date of its approval, shall be sold and disposed of under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, not more than six hundred and forty acres to any one purchaser. Sec. 4.Expenses. That the costs of carrying out the provisions of this Act, including the necessary compensation of the custodian, not exceeding sixty dollars per month, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be paid from the appropriations for the expense of the survey, appraisal, and sale of abandoned military reservations.
Approved, January 27, 1913.