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 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 39, 40. 1880. @9 Waste as in section one of said act · and where such ersons h °· legal representatives or assigns are, not in possessionpof said laiiclhs EYES Msglgénotmpw the same may be entered as others of the said Kansas Indian lands by actual settlers only. ’ Sec. 2. That all persons who have made entries under section two 1874 on 471 of the act of June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-four re- 18 Slut-.- 272-, ` lating to these lands, may complete their payments upon such entries E“°”l°“‘· at the newly appraised value thereof in the same manner and upon the germs, credits, and limitations as are provided in section one of Sec. 3. That the terms of the proviso of section two of the act of July 1876. Ch- WB. fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, relating to default and for- 19 S"“”·· 74- iciturq slliall eiiztend to all entries and requirements under the provis- fggsfgult and for ions o IS ac . ' Sec. 4. _Actual settlement on any of said lands shall be regarded as Aomoz settlement sufficient in all cases where the claimant actually resides on contiguous 0** Oomiyuvue Mdland to which he holds the legal title, and has heretofore cultivated and made valuable improvements on his adjoining claim, in good faith, for the purpose of a home for himself: Provided, Said claimant shall in all Provioo. other respects comply with the law and the regulations issued thereunder by the General Land Office. ‘ Approved, March 16, 1880. CHAP. 40.-An act to restore to the public domain the military reservation known April 1, 1880. as the Fort Ripley Reservation, in the State of Minnesota, and for other purposes. ——-··—~—-t~——-—- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Oongrees assembled, That the Secretary of War be, Fort Ripley resand he is hereby, authorized and required to turn over to the Depart- ""“'”°{‘ °f 1****** ' ment of the Interior all of the military reservation known as the Fort ;,3§£g1d%;L,,g°,th° Ripley reservation, in the State of Minnesota, except a strip or tract of ` land fifty feet in width from the centre of the railroad track on each side of said track of the Western Railroad Company of Minnesota, as Western Railthe said track is located and constructed, being a distance of about reed Company ¤f nfteen miles across said reservation on the east side of the Mississippi M“m"“°'°“· River · together with a tract of land fifteen hundred feet in length and three hundred feet in width for depot and station purposes at the present location of the Fort Ripley side track, the same being for right of Right of way. way for said railroad as heretofore granted by acts of Congress in the 1857, ch- 9i3s years eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and eighteen hundred and sixty- $§gg·» £· :05- five and which is hereby granted for that purpose. Smtj i3' wi Sec. 2. All the lands embraced in said Fort Ripley reservation hereby Subjéctdd to enrequired to be turned over to the Secretary of the Interior shall be sub- WV- ject to entry by actual settlers under the pre-emption and homestead laws as minimum lands, of the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, from and after the passage of this act. The rights of all actual Rights of actual settlers entitled to the benefits of the pre-emption or homestead laws who settlers preserved. now occupy said lands shall date from the day of their actual settlement - thereon; and in perfecting their titles thereto under the homestead or Titles perfected. preemption laws the time such settlers have occupied and improved their said lands shall be allowed: Provided, That all persons who pur- Promo. chased and paid for any of said lands at the sale authorized by the War Department in the year anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-seven and paid therefor the minimum price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre shall be entitled to patents for the same without further pay- I ment: And provided farther, That the Secretary of the Interior shall, Promo. prior to ofering any quarter section, half quarter section, or quarter quarter section whereon are situate any public buildings or improvements, erected or made by the government, cause the said tracts with the improvements thereon to be appraised by three disinterested persons,