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 r1F’rY-six*rH coNeREss. sms. 1. cus. 799,800. 1900. 659 CHAP. 7 99.-An Act To provide for the sale of isolated and disconnected tracts or J\¤¤¢ 6. 1900- parcels of the Osage trust and diminished reserve lands in the State of Kansas. "‘;""__" Be it enacted by the Senate and [base of Representati»ves oft/ae United States of America in Oengress assembled, That the Secretary of the 1,§§s°§§n§“S‘· °‘°·· Interior shall cause to be duly proclaimed and offered at public sale, in t Sag of igolnged the manner prescribed for the olfering of public lands, all isolated or $$3, ’°t°"°mn °r` disconnected tracts or parcels of lands of one quarter section or less of the Osage trust and diminished 1'€S€1‘V6 lands within the State of Kansas for which no application has been filed under the provisions of existing laws in relation thereto, but not more than one quarter section ggsgit *0 <>¤¤ I·¤=- shall be sold to any one urchaser under the provisions of this Act. ` Such lands shall be offered for sale by advertisement for not less than Ad"€”*iS€m°¤*· thirty days in two newspapers in the proper land district, and by posting in the proper local land office for the same period, and upon the named in suc_h notice shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder at not less than the price iixed by law: Ibweided, That any settler upon grvgm- I _ I any of said lands shall be ermitted, at any time prior to the sale of lg tw Sm m' the particular tract claimedp by him, to file his app ication and submit proof therefor in accordance with existing laws. If an of said lands ,BQ{'§j’lj*d§§{{,d;¤§g,l" remain unsold after the offering as aforesaid they shall be subject to private entry, for cash, in tracts not exceeding one quarter section by one purchaser. Sec. 2. That any such tracts or parcels of land that may become I §gi¤g)<{f dl¤¤d¤,i¤<; isolated or· disconnected by the disposal of surroundin lands, after siliimmisugsiiiistis. ° the offering provided for in the preceding section of this Act, shall {$;,§j§f‘,§_f,§,‘}?·l’·"‘°· be subject to disposal under the provisions of section twenty-four hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States as amended by the Act of February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, except that it shall not be necessary t at said lands shall heave been subject to homestead entry for three years prior to such sa e. Approved. June 6, 1900. CHAP. 800.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Acffor the erection of a Juuec, 1900. public building at Anniston, Alabama." _""—""°"’*“' Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Oengress assemble, That an Act for the erection §},’§}§,”$,’};,§§§*,,g_ of a public building at Anniston, Alabama, approved March second, v¤1.so,pp.1oos,ma eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, be amended b adding thereto the following: “Pr0cided, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and ggggg 0, ,u,m,c_ he is hereby, authorized to proceed with the erection of the building tion ofSit¢· at Anniston, Alabama, in accordance with said Act, upon cession of jurisdiction to the United States of the site of the proposed building 1n compliance with section six hundred and twenty-eight, chapter fifteen, volume one, of the civil code of Alabama of eighteen hun red and ninety-six, which reads asfollows: ‘The governor, upon application made to him in writing on behalf of the United States for that purpose, accompanied by the dproper evidence of the purchase, describing the lands sought to be ce ed, is authorized on the part of the State to cede to the United States jurisdiction over such lands, to hold, to use, and occupy the same for the urpose of the cession, and none other. The jurisdiction thus ceded Hoes not prevent the execution on such lands of any process, civil or criminal, under the authority of this State, nor prevent the laws of this State from operating over such lands; saving to the United States security to their property within the limits of the jurisdiction ceded, and exemption of the same and of such lands from taxation under the authority of this State during the jurisdiction ceded."’ Approved, June 6, 1900.