Chapter 265. To provide for the abolition of the eighty-rod reserved shore spaces between claims on shore waters in Alaska
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CHAP. 265.— An Act To provide for the abolition of the eighty-rod reserved shore spaces between claims on shore waters in Alaska. June 5, 1920. [[H. R. 10806](/us/bill/66/hr/10806).] [[Public, No. 276](/us/pl/66/276).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Alaska.Shore line reservation in, not applicable to entries of classified homestead lands.Vol. 30, p. 409; Vol. 32, p. 1028. That the provisions of the Act of May 14, 1898 (Thirtieth Statutes at Large, page 409), extending the homestead laws to Alaska, and of the Act of March 3, 1903 (Thirty-second Statutes at Large, page 1028), amendatory thereof, in so far as they reserve from sale and entry a space of at least eighty rods in width between tracts sold or entered under the provisions thereof along the shore of any navigable water, and provide that no entry shall be allowed extending more than one hundred and sixty rods along the shore of any navigable water, shall not apply to lands classified and listed by the Secretary ofVol. 34, p. 233.
Agriculture for entry under the Act of June 11, 1906 (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page 233), and that the Secretary of the Interior may upon application to enter or otherwise in his discretion restore to entry and disposition such reserved spaces and may waive theRestrictions may be waived. restriction that no entry shall be allowed extending more than one hundred and sixty rods along the shore of any navigable water asCondition. to such lands as he shall determine are not necessary for harborage uses and purposes.
Approved, June 5, 1920.