Chapter LXXII. to reduce the minimum Price of the Mineral Lands in the Lake Superior District in Michigan, and in the Chippewa District in Wisconsin
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Chap. LXXII.— An Act to reduce the minimum Price of the Mineral Lands in the Lake Superior District in Michigan, and in the Chippewa District in Wisconsin.Sept. 26, 1850. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the mineral Mineral lands in Michigan and Wisconsin to be offered for sale as other public lands. lands in the Lake Superior district in Michigan, and in the Chippewa district in Wisconsin, shall be offered for public sale in the same manner, and be subject to the same minimum price, and the same rights of pre-emption as the other public lands of the United States; and such portions of the act of first March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, Parts of acts inconsistent repealed.
“to establish a land office in the northern part of Michigan, and to provide for the sale of the mineral lands in the State of Michigan,” and of the act of the third March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, 1847, ch. 32, and ch. 54. “to create an additional land district in the Territory of Wisconsin, and for other purposes,” as are inconsistent with the provisions of this act, shall be, and the same are hereby, repealed: *Provided, however,* That Proviso. the right given by those acts of first and third March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, to lessees, occupants, and permittees, to enter to the extent of their leases and permits, and no less, shall not be considered as impaired by this act; but said lessees, occupants, and permittees shall be authorized to enter the land covered by their leases, occupancy, and permits, respectively, as therein provided, at the minimum price fixed by this act.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the holder of a lease or Holder of a lease for more than one section entitled on surrender of said lease to purchase one full section at the minimum price. permit covering more than one full section of the mineral lands, as aforesaid, shall be entitled, on the surrender and annulment of said lease or permit at the proper land-office, to purchase, if he shall elect to do so, one full section, and no more, of the land covered by said lease or permit, at a minimum price of two dollars and fifty cents per acre.
Approved, September 26, 1850.