Chapter 200. To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to dispose of at public sale certain isolated and fractional tracts of lands formerly embraced in the grant to the Oregon and California Railroad Company
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CHAP. 200.— An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to dispose of at public sale certain isolated and fractional tracts of lands formerly embraced in the grant to the Oregon and California Railroad Company. May 25, 1920. [[H. R. 13389](/us/bill/66/hr/13389).] [[Public, No. 220](/us/pl/66/220).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Public lands.Sale of agricultural lands of revested California-Oregon grants.[R.
S., sec. 2455, p. 449](/us/rs/s2455/p449).Vol. 39, p. 218. That the provisions of section 2455, Revised Statutes, be, and the same are hereby, extended to class three of the lands formerly embraced by what are known as the Oregon and California railroad grants, title to which was revested in the United States under the provisions of the Act approved June 9,6231916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 218): *Provided*, That no*Proviso*.Price, etc., conditions. sales hereunder shall be made for less than $2.50 per acre, and the appraised value of the timber on the land, nor until such lands shall have been subject to homestead entry for a period of two years: *Provided further*, That the proceeds of such sales shall be applied in theDisposition of proceeds.Vol. 39, p. 222. manner prescribed in said Act of June 9, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 218).
Approved, May 25, 1920.