Chapter 67. To amend section twenty-four hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to isolated tracts of public land
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CHAP. 67.— An Act To amend section twenty-four hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to isolated tracts of public land. March 28, 1912.[[H. R. 19342](/us/bill/62/hr/19342).][[Public. No. 111](/us/pl/62/111).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section twenty-four Public lands.[R. S. sec. 2455, p. 449, amended](/us/rs/s2455/p449).hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended to read as follows:
" “Sec. 2455. It shall be lawful for the Commissioner of the General Isolated tracts, etc.Sales at auction authorized.Vol. 34, p. 517.Land Office to order into market and sell at public auction, at the land office of the district in which the land is situated, for not less than one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre, any isolated or disconnected tract 78or parcel of the public domain not exceeding one quarter section which, in his judgment, it would be proper to expose for sale after at least thirty days’ notice by the land officers of the district in which *Provisos*.Mountainous or rough lands to adjoining owners.such land may be situated: *Provided*, That any legal subdivisions of the public land, not exceeding one quarter section, the greater part of which is mountainous or too rough for cultivation, may, in the discretion of said commissioner, be ordered into the market and sold pursuant to this Act upon the application of any person who owns lands or holds a valid entry of, lands adjoining such tract, regardless of the fact that such tract may not be isolated or disconnected within the meaning Vested rights.of this Act: *Provided further*, That this Act shall not defeat any vested right which has already attached under any pending entry or location.
” " Approved, March 28, 1912.