Chapter 216. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Court of Private Land Claims and to provide for the settlement of private land claims in certain States and Territories,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and the Acts amendatory thereto, approved February twenty-first, eighteen h
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CHAP. 216.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Court of Private Land Claims and to provide for the settlement of private land claims in certain States and Territories,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and the Acts amendatory thereto, approved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and nine. July 3, 1916[[S. 1840](/us/bill/64/s/1840)][[Public, No. 138](/us/pl/64/138)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Court of Private Land Claims.Filing of adverse possession claims for confirmation.Vol. 26, p. 862;
Vol. 27, p. 471; Vol. 30, p. 495. That section eighteen of an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Court of Private Land Claims and to provide for the settlement of private land claims in certain States and Territories,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, as amended by the Act approved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and by the Act approved June twenty-seventh, Vol. 35, p. 655, amended.eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and by the Act approved February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and nine, be, and the same is hereby, further amended by striking out the words “before the fourth day of March, nineteen hundred and ten,” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “before the fourth day of March, nineteen hundred and seventeen,” so that the first clause of said section shall read as follows, namely:
" Time extended.“That all claims arising under either of the two next preceding sections of this Act shall be filed with the surveyor general of the proper State or Territory before the fourth day of March, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and no claim not so filed shall be valid.” " *Proviso*.Lands excluded.s*Provided*, That the extension herein granted shall not apply to lands within the limits of a confirmed grant or embraced in any entry completed under the public land laws prior to filing of a claim hereunder, nor shall its provision extend to persons holding under assignments made after March third, nineteen hundred and one.
Approved, July 3, 1916.