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 F IFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. Cris. 3066, 3067. 1906. 229 the public land laws, and the public land surveys shall be extended over the lands therein: Preceded, That he may reserve for Indian f,“f,‘;'£'j,,0n for Im school purposes the following-described lands in township twenty dim whwl. north, range two west, Montana principal meridian, as determined by the extension of the public surveys: That portion of section two lying south of Sun River, all of sections eleven, fourteen, and twenty-three, and that portion of section twenty-six lying within the present reservation boundary: 1·’7·0/videdfart/ter, That before opening the reserva— ,,f,§§§f‘,§3‘j,‘f,“,}c,““‘*€' - tion to entry, the Secretary of the Interior may withdraw any other ` lands therein needed in connection with an irrigation project under the provisions of the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, V01- 32. p· 388- known as the reclamation Act, for use or disposition thereunder. Approved, June 9, 1906. CHAP. 8067.-An Act To provide for the subdivision and sale of certain lands ·T¤¤¢ 9,1905 in the State of Washington. _ [H· R· 17121] [Public, No. 216. Be it enacted by the Senate and House 0 f Representatives cftlw United I States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the §‘;‘;l}§}*},“‘l*;,c, in Interior may, if in his opinion the public interests so require, cause g*;¤sgigs*v¤¢¤b¤¤¤b- lots one, two, and three, and the northwest quarter of the northwest vi ° ’ quarter of section four; and lots two, three, and four, and the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter, and all of the northeast uarter of section five; and the east half of the northeast quarter and the east half of the southeast quarter of section seven; and the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter, and the south half of the southwest quarter of section eight, in township twenty-one north, and lot four of section thirty-three, in township twenty-two north, all in range two east of the Willamette meridian, in the State of Washington, or any part thereof, to be regularly surveyed or subdivided into tracts or cts of ten acres each, or less, and into town lots, or either, or both. He shall cause said lands to be so surveyed and subdivided and ·*PP““"‘- each tract thereof to be appraised by three competent disinterested men, to be appointed by him, and who shall, after having each been first duly sworn to impartially and faithfully execute the trust reposed in him, appraise said ands, subdivisions, and tracts, and each of them, and report their proceedings to the Secretary of the Interior for his action thereon. If such appraisement be disapproved, the Sec- R°°PP'”‘“°l· retary of the Interior shall again cause the said lands to be appraised as before provided; and when the appraisement has been approved S°l° °*°“°**°¤· he shall cause the said lands, subdivisions, and lots to be sold at public sale to the highest bidder for cash at not less than the appraised value thereof and not less than two dolfars and fifty cents per acre, first having given not less than sixty days’ public notice of the time, place, and terms of sale, immediately prior to such sale, by publication in at least two newspapers having general circulation in the count or the section of the county where the lands to be sold are situated}; and any lands, subdivisions, or lots remaining unsold may be reotfered for sale at any subsequent time in the same manner, at the discretion _ of the Secretary of the Interior; and if unsold at such second offering M P“'“*° “'*l°~ for want of bidders then the Secretary of the Interior may sell the same at private sale for cash at not less than the appraised value nor _ less than two dollars and fifty cents per acre: P1·02·ided, That no date §',°{§j'g'g,,,_ shall be fixed for the sale of any of said lands until at least ninety days after the Secretary of the Interior has approved said appraisemeut: hmded fm-tim-, That any settler who is in actual occupation of any ,,,§§‘,§,‘§f by "°“" *"’° portion of such lands at the date of the passage of this Act who has settled thereon in good faith for the purpose o securing a home, and