Chapter 142. For the relief of occupants and claimants of unsurveyed public land in township eight north of range two west of Salt Lake meridian, Utah
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CHAP. 142.— An Act For the relief of occupants and claimants of unsurveyed public land in township eight north of range two west of Salt Lake meridian, Utah. April 15, 1920. [[H. R. 5213](/us/bill/66/hr/5213).] [[Public, No. 177](/us/pl/66/177).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That on the survey of anyPublic lands.Survey, etc., of erroneously omitted areas in Utah. areas of public land in sections ten, fifteen, twenty-two, and twenty-seven, in township eight north, range two west of the Salt Lake base and meridian, in the State of Utah, which may be found to have been erroneously omitted from the official survey, plat of which is now on file in the General Land Office, the Commissioner of the General Land Office be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause suchHoldings of occupants to be segregated. areas to be surveyed and platted in such a manner as will segregate the several holdings of the bona fide occupants of such areas as shown by their occupation and improvements.
Sec. 2. That under such rules and regulations as the Secretary ofPreferential right of bona fide occupants. the Interior shall prescribe all such bona fide occupants as shall have had adverse possession by themselves or their grantors for seven years prior to the approval of the plat of survey provided for herein shall have a preferred right at any time within six months after the approval of such plat of survey to purchase at the rate of $2.50 per acre the lands so occupied and improved in such parcels as the same are so held and possessed by each of them, not to exceed in any one case one hundred and sixty acres.
Sec. 3. That in lieu of any portion of such areas which may beLieu lands to railroads for holdings by occupants.Vol. 18, p. 194. found to lie within the limits of a grant to any railroad company and to have been for the period of seven years mentioned in the preceding section in the possession of a bona fide occupant or occupants claiming otherwise than through such company, such railroad company shall be entitled to select other lands in accordance with the terms and restrictions of the Act of Congress approved June 22, 1874: *Provided*, That the land described in one certain patent of the United*Proviso*.Grant to Central Pacific Railroad Company confirmed.
States dated September 16, 1884, to the Central Pacific Railroad Company as lot five of the northwest quarter of section fifteen of the township and range aforesaid, containing thirty-three and nineteen one-hundredths acres, shall not form the basis for any such lieu selection; but the survey hereinbefore provided for shall be so made as to identify said tract; and title to said tract is hereby confirmed in said railway company and its grantees. Approved, April 15, 1920.