Chapter 276. Granting a patent to George M
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CHAP. 276.— An Act Granting a patent to George M. Van Leuven for the northeast quarter of section eighteen, township seventeen north, range nineteen east, Black Hills meridian, South Dakota.August 22, 1914.[[H. R. 10765](/us/bill/63/hr/10765).][[Private, No. 130](/us/pvtl/63/130).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the George M. Van Leuven.Homestead patent to.Interior be authorized and directed to issue to George M.
Van Leuven patent for the northeast quarter of section eighteen, township seventeen north, range nineteen east, Black Hills meridian, South Dakota, notwithstanding that his homestead entry therefor was invalid upon the ground that he had exhausted his homestead right through purchase of one hundred and sixty acres of land under the provisions of 1454 Vol. 21, p. 238.section two of the Act of June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty (twenty-first volume Statutes at Large, page two hundred and thirty-seven)*Provisos*.Proof required.: *Provided*, That he shall first have shown compliance with the provisions of the homestead law and shall have made the required No adverse claim.payments: *Provided further*, That there exists no valid adverse claim for said tract.
Approved, August 22, 1914.