Chapter 135.
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CHAP. 135.— AN ACT For the relief of settlers on unsurveyed railroad lands. February 27, 1917.[[S. 1792](/us/bill/64/s/1792).][[Public, No. 360](/us/pl/64/360).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That where, prior to July Northern Pacific land grants, Washington. Rights of settlers on unsurveyed lands in.first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, the whole or any part of an odd-numbered section within the primary limits of the land grant to the Northern Pacific Railway Company, within the State of Washington, to which the right of the grantee or its lawful successor is claimed to have attached by definite location, has been settled upon Vol. 30, p. 620, amended.in good faith while unsurveyed, by any qualified settler, the same shall be subject to all the provisions of the Act of July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight (Thirtieth Statutes at Large, pages six hundred and twenty to six hundred and twenty-two), relating to lands in said primary limits so settled upon prior to January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and said Act is hereby amended *Proviso.* Lieu lands to railway company.accordingly: *Provided,* That upon the relinquishment by said railway company of any of the lands so settled upon the selection of any lieu lands of approximately equal value by said company shall be confined to the State of Washington.
Approved, February 27, 1917.