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 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. HI. Ch. 189, 190. 1879. 47]. apart or reserved for naval purposes, excepting the reservation upon _ Reserved lends which the navy-yard at Pensacola is located, and to ascertain whether m Fl°“d“» °°“m· or not such reserved lands are or will be of any value to the Government of the United States for naval purposes. Sec. 2. That all of said lands which, in the judgment of the Secretary Restoredto entry of the Navy, are no longer required for naval purposes shall, as soon as ‘*““1 “”l°- practicable, be certified by him to the Secretary of the Interior, and be subject to entry and sale in the same manner and under the same conditions as other public lands of the United States: Provided, That all Provieo. persons who have, in good faith, made improvements on said reserved lands so certified at the time of the passage of this act, and who occupy the same, shall be entitled to purchase the part or parts so occupied and improved by them, not to exceed one hundred and sixty acres to any one person at one dollar and twenty-tive cents per acre within such reasonable time as may be Hxed by the Secretary of the Interior. Sec. 3. That the sum of three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as Appropriationmay be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of the Navy to carry out the provisions of this act. Approved, March 3, 1879. CHAP. 190.-An act to amend an act to provide for the sale of a portion of the res- March 3, 1879. ervation of the Confederated Otoe and Missouria and the Sac and Fox of the Missouri ·——·-————— tribes of Indians in the States of Kansas and Nebraska. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section three of the act of Otoe and Mis- August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, chapter three hun- ¤°“*°"* and S"? MP] dred and eight, entitled "An act to provide for the sale of a portion of §;‘;;,;’:°'V”m°“ ld the reservation of the Confederated Otoe and Missouria and the Sac and ]87t$,·ch_ sos, Fox of the Missouri tribes of Indians", be, and the same hereby is, 19 Stat,208. amended so as to read, as follows: That after the survey and appraisement of said lands, the Secretary Portion to be of the Interior shall be, and is hereby, authorized to offer one hundred 801*1- and twenty thousand acres from the western side of the same for sale, through the United States public land-office at Beatrice, Nebraska, in tracts not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres for cash, to actual settlers, or persons who shall make oath before the register or receiver of the land office at Beatrice, Nebraska, that they intend to occupy the land for authority to purchase which they make application, and who shall within three months from the date of such application make a permanent settlement upon the same, in tracts not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to each purchaser: Provided, That if, in the judgment of· Promo. the Secretary of the Interior, it shall be more advantageous to sell said T"’"”—"· lands upon deferred payments, he may, with the consent of the Indians expressed in open council, dispose of the same upon the following terms as to payments, that is to say, one third in_cash, one third in one year, and one third in two years from date of sale, with interest at the rate of ' six per centum per annum: And provided further, That no portion of homosaid land shall be sold at less than the appraised value thereof, and in Priceno case less than two dollars and fifty cents per acre: And provakled fur- Promother, That whenever a settler on any of the lands subject to sale under _F r o o t i o H ol the act to which this is amendatory shall apply to purchase a tract con- P‘°°°°· taining a small excess over one hundred and sixty acres, owing to the legal subdivisions being made fractional by boundary-line of reservation, township or section-line his application shall not be rejected on account of such excess; but, if no other objection exist the purchase shall_be allowed as in other cases. And provided further, That bona fide cla1m· Proviso. ants at present occupying lands under the provisions of the act of which Present ooouthis is amendatory may in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior T"*“*°· be allowed additional time for making the deferred payments required