Chapter 165. Authorizing the patenting of certain lands to rural high school district numbered one, of Nez Perce County, Idaho
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CHAP. 165.— An Act Authorizing the patenting of certain lands to rural high school district numbered one, of Nez Perce County, Idaho.June 11, 1912. [[S. 4791](/us/bill/62/s/4791).] [[Public, No. 190](/us/pl/62/190).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Nez Perce County, Idaho, granted site for school. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to cause patent to issue to rural high school district numbered one, of Nez Perce County, Idaho, for the use and benefit of said district, for the following-described tract of land within said county, to wit:
Commencing at the southeast corner of lot numbered twenty-seven, on the north boundary of Fort Lapwai Military Reservation, in section two, township thirty-five north, range four west, Boise meridian; thence south along the west line of the Presbyterian mission reserve three hundred feet; thence south eighty-five degrees west seven hundred and twenty-six feet; thence north three hundred feet to the north boundary of the Fort Lapwai Military Reservation; thence north eighty-five degrees east along said military reservation boundary seven hundred and twenty-six feet, to the place of beginning, containing five acres, more *Provisos*.Admission of Indian pupils.or less: *Provided*, That Indian pupils residing within said district shall at all times be admitted to such schools as may be established on the lands granted herein on terms of equality with the white pupils:
Limitation.*Provided further*, That in the event the proposed school building is not completed within two years after the title has passed to the rural high school district numbered one, the land shall revert to the United States: *Provided further*, That in the event said lands are ever abandoned and not used for educational purposes, all right, title, and interest therein conveyed to the said district by this Act shall be forfeited and the same shall revert to the United States.
Approved, June 11, 1912.