Chapter 291. To amend an act of Congress approved March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred (volume thirty-one, Statutes at Large, page fifty-two), entitled “An act granting to the State of Kansas the abandoned Fort Hays Military Reservation, in said State, for the purpose of establishing an experiment station of th
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CHAP. 291.— An Act To amend an act of Congress approved March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred (volume thirty-one, Statutes at Large, page fifty-two), entitled “An act granting to the State of Kansas the abandoned Fort Hays Military Reservation, in said State, for the purpose of establishing an experiment station of the Kansas State Agricultural College, and a western branch of the State Normal School thereon, and for a public park.” August 27, 1914.[[H. R. 14155](/us/bill/63/hr/14155).][[Public, No. 191](/us/pl/63/191).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Fort Hays Military Reservation, Kans.Vol. 31, p. 52, amended.
That an Act of Congress approved March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred (volume thirty-one, Statutes at Large, page fifty-two), entitled “An Act granting to the State of Kansas the abandoned Fort Hays Military Reservation, in said State, for the purpose of establishing an experiment station of the Kansas State Agricultural College, and a western branch of the State Normal School thereon, and for a public park,” be, and the same is, amended to read as follows: " Granted to Kansas.Conditions modified.“That the abandoned Fort Hays Military Reservation and all the improvements thereon, situated in the State of Kansas, be., and the same are hereby, granted to said State upon the conditions that said State shall establish and maintain perpetually thereon, first, an experiment station of the Kansas Agricultural College or a State agricultural college and experimental station; second, a western branch of the Kansas State Normal School or a State normal school, and that in connection therewith the said reservation, shall be used*Provisos*.Legislative acceptance required. and maintained as a public park: *Provided*, That said State shall within five years, from and after the passage of this Act, accept this grant, and shall by proper legislative action establish on said reservation an experiment station of the Kansas Agricultural College or a State agricultural college and experimental station, and a westernReversion for nonuser. branch of the State Normal School or a State normal school; and whenever the lairds shall cease to be used by said State for the purpose herein mentioned the same shall revert to the United States: *Provided further*,Valid rights not impaired.
That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to any tract or tracts within the limits of said reservation to which a valid claim has attached, by settlement or otherwise, under any of the public-landNo further appropriation. laws of the United States: *Provided*, That nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to entitle the State of Kansas to any additional appropriation out of the Treasury of the United States.” " Approved, August 27, 1914.