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 TFIFTY-SEVENT H CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cns. 943-945. 1902. 283 Christian Associations of North America to erect and maintain, on the military reservations within the United States or its island possessions, such buildings as their work for the romotion of the social, physical, intellectual, and moral welfare of the garrisons may require, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may impose. - Approved, May 31, 1902. CHAP. 944.-An Act To authorize the sale of a part of the Fort N iobrara Military MBV 31. 1902. Reservation, in the State of Nebraska. Be it enacted by the Senate andHouse of Resentatilves of the [Hated States ofrlmervfea in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the ,af,°,?'},;‘;‘;‘;’g;°t§f,i}]*· Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to sell to the village of Val- Nebr. ' entine, Nebraska, the northwest quarter of section lGWGDt_Y·DlD6, and sgi? 3t€i$,li2€dY°1` the northeast quarter of section thirty, and the east one·half of the southeast quarter of section thirty, and the east half of section thirty- ‘ one, all in township thirty-four north of range twenty-seven west of the sixth principal meridian, Cherry County, State of Nebraska, now a part of the Fort Niobrara Military Reservation, for the sum of one thousand four hundred and forty dollars. Sec. 2. That upon payment of said sum by the said village of Val- C°¤'°Y¤¤¤¢· entine the patent of the United States shall issue conveying the said lands to the said village in its corporate name, or to its duly constituted official board, as may be desired, and thereupon and thereafter title to the said land described shall be in said village of Valentine. Approved, May 31, 1902. CHAP. 945.-An Act Granting homesteaders on the abandoned Fort Bridger, M¤y31,1902. Fort Sanders, and l·`ort Laramie military reservations, and Fort Laramie Wood Res- m”$j,w ervation, in Wyoming, the right to purchase one quarter section oi public land on said reservations as pasture or grazing land, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States ofzlmertca in Congress assembled, That each person who has or A¤¤}¤j;>¤¤<1¤¤i1ir¤rr may hereafter exercise the right of homestead entry on the abandoned r°iiiii.fe»i${1 swim Fort Brid er Reservation, or on the Fort Sanders, or the Fort Laramie }{§‘;§Q},§;f'°"““° ¥‘“”‘ abandonecgmilitarv reservations, or the abandoned Fort Laramie Wood ` Reservation, to which the homestead laws are hereby extended, in the State of W voming, and is residing on said reservations under the provisions andl requirements of the homestead law, or who is a resident and the owner in fee of one hundred and sixty acres thereon by purchase, shall, upon (proper proof of settlement, homestead, or other legal title upon said reservations, be entitled to the riglht to purchase, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, not exceeding one quarter section of the public lands on said reservations as pasture or grazing land not otherwise disposed of: Ibn/vided, That and so pAmgm._ H bl purchased be unfifted for cultivation and homestead entry by reason of " "“" ° °‘ · lack of water for irrigating purposes or otherwise: And p1·0z·ided_fiw·· ther, That said purchase of pasture or grazing land shall not, with the Maximum mam;. land heretofore entered by the applicant, exceed in the aggregate three hundred and twenty acres. Approved, May 31, 1902.