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 52 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 108,110,111. 1900. ' for the term of three years from and after the passage of this Act, and that said Act is hereby continued in full force and edect. Approved, March 26, 1900. ’ · March 28, 1900. CHAP. 110.-An Act Granting to the State of Kansas the abandoned Fort Hays ‘ *""‘—‘* Military Reservation, in said State, for the purpose of establishing an experiment station of the Kansas Agricultural College, and a western branch of the Kansas State Normal School thereon, and for a public park. Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofR?resentatv}ves of the United Rggrgmgzigs Mjgggg States Ngf America in Congress assembled, That the abandoned Fort sms or Kansgs. Hayis 1Silitary§II¥£·zservation ang al; the improvplments thereoné situateréil in the tate o ansas be an the same are ereby rante to sai -—¤<>¤diti<>¤¤- State upon the conditions that said State shall establisb and maintain perpetually thereon, first, an experiment station of the Kansas Agricultural College; second, a westegn branch of the Kansas State lglormal School and that in connection therewith the said reservation S all be planter. usedaiid maintained as a public park: Provided, That said State shall, ‘“°°°*’“‘“°°·°°°‘ within five years from and after the passage of this Act, accept this grant, and S all by proper. legislative action establish on said reservation an experiment station of the Kansas Agricultural College and a qevsrsion. westernbranch of the Kansas State Normal School; and whenever the lands shall cease to be used by said State for the purppses herein men- _ · tioned the same shall revertto the United States:. evided further, uxyéicgggd ¤l¤¤m¤ That the prov1sions of this Act shall not apply to any tract or tracts ` e within the lim1ts of sa1d reservation to w ich a valid claim has attached, by settlement or otherwise, under any of the public land laws of the United States. Approved, March 28, 1900. March 28, 1900. 1 1.—An Act Enlarging the powers of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf -—··—·—·—-· i ma ompany. Be it enacted by the Senate and H0zlse(é2_fRepresentati*ve8 of the United Qihorvgwéggahgma States of America in Oengress assemble, That the limitations imposed imVol;i\}28,p.5i)3.0aby the proviso to section four of the Act approved August twenty- V°’·2°·P·°?· J fourth eighteen hundred and ninety-four entitled “An Act to author- Repeal of limitation _ v g 9 , giangemsconsrwctins IZG the purchasers of the property and franchises of tgie Chocgaw Coal ` and Rai road Company to organize a cor eration an to con er upon the same all the powers, privileges, and iIi·anchiseS vested in that comp}any," or by any Act amendatory of said Act upon the power of the hoctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Ra1lroad Comtpany, the cor(poration organized thereunder, to construct branches au orized by said section four of said Act of August twenty-fourth, eighteen undred and -ex¤ep¤. ninety-four, are hereby repealed, except in so far as these limitations require the filinighof maps ofl the slaid branches with the Secretary of the Interior an is approva of the same. censemenonnuqugn Sec. 2. That the powers heretofore conferred upon the Said Choctaw, },‘,]§‘““ ’°“°“"“‘°““· Oklahoma and Gu f Railroad Company· by the said Act of August twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and the Acts amendatory thereof, sglial be so (ponstrued ashto amlrthorirte th; construction and operation of the rai roa and branc es thereby or ereby authorized through and over any Indian reservations, subject to the payment of the compensation provided for in said Acts as to land in the Indian Territory, and`through and over any Indian allotments, subject to the compensation provided by the laws of Oklahoma.