Chapter 533. To provide for extension of payment on homestead entries on ceded lands of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, State of Montana, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 533.— An Act To provide for extension of payment on homestead entries on ceded lands of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, State of Montana, and for other purposes. March 4, 1925.[[S. 4367](/us/bill/68/s/4367).][[Public, No. 608](/us/pl/68/608).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That all personsFort Peck Indian Reservation, Mont.Homestead settlers allowed further time for installment payments.Vol. 41, p. 365. who have made homestead entries, being actual settlers within the boundaries of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation are hereby granted an extension of time for payment of one-half the amount, including principal and interest due and unpaid on their homestead entries until the 1st day of November, 1925, and for payment of the other half until the 1st day of November, 1926; all such amounts to bear interest until the payment dates, at 5 per centum per annum: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Lands forfeited if payments not made.
That upon failure to make complete payment of either installment by any such persons the entry shall be canceled and the land revert to the status of other tribal lands of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. Sec. 2. All such persons who have abandoned residence on andArrears from persons who have abandoned residence, etc., to bo paid.*Provisos*.Interest on delinquencies. cultivation of their entries and who are in arrears in any amounts are hereby required to make payment in full of both principal and interest on or before the 1st day of November, 1925: *Provided*, That all delinquent amounts of both principal and interest shall draw interest at the rate of 5 per centum per annum until paid: *Provided further*,Lands forfeited if payments not made.
That upon failure to make full and complete payment of both principal and interest on or before the 1st day of November, 1925, said entry or entries shall thereupon be canceled, and the land revert to the status of other tribal lands of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. Approved, March 4, 1925.