Chapter 161. To validate certain public-land entries
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CHAP. 161.— An Act To validate certain public-land entries. July 25, 1918. [[S. 4555](/us/bill/65/s/4555).] [[Public, No. 205](/us/pl/65/205).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That all entries heretoforePublic lands. Erroneous homestead entries on ceded Red Lake Indian Reservation, Minn., validated. Vol, 33, p. 46. Vol. 36, p. 913. erroneously allowed for lands opened to entry under the Act approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and four (Thirty-third Statutes at Large, page forty-six), and the Act of February sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eleven (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page nine hundred and thirteen), to persons who had previously exhausted their homestead rights, are hereby ratified and confirmed; and any such entry which has been canceled for the reason given shall be reinstated in the absence of conflicts and proceed to patent upon compliance with the law under which the entry was made.
Approved, July 25, 1918.