Chapter 72. For the relief of settlers on certain railroad lands in Montana
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CHAP. 72.— An Act For the relief of settlers on certain railroad lands in Montana. February 28, 1919.[[S. 935](/us/bill/65/s/935).][[Public, No. 302](/us/pl/65/302).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Northern Pacific land grants.Lands of, in former Indian reservation, Montana, may be relinguished by Company to actual settlers thereon. That in the adjustment of the grants to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, if any of the lands within the indemnity limits of said grants through that portion of the former reservation for the Gros Ventre, Piegan, Blood, Blackfoot, and River Crow Indians lying south of the Missouri River in the State of Montana be found in possession of an actual bona fide qualified settler under the homestead laws of the United States who has made substantial improvements thereon and such land has been adjudged by the Secretary of the Interior to inure to the Northern Pacific Railway Company under the grants made to its predecessor in interest, the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, the Northern Pacific Railway Company upon request of the Secretary of theIndemnity lands to Company.
Interior may file a relinquishment of said lands in favor of the settler and shall then be entitled to select an equal quantity of other lands in lieu thereof from any of the surveyed public lands within the State of Montana, not mineral and not otherwise appropriated at the date of selection, to which it shall receive title the same as though*Proviso*.Restricted patent for coal lands.Vol. 37, p. 583. originally granted: *Provided, however*, That lands withdrawn or classified as coal lands may be selected by said company, and as to such lands it shall receive a restricted patent as provided by the Act of June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and ten.
Approved, February 28, 1919.