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 PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 615-617-JULY 11, 1940 43U.S.C.§§715, 716. 43 U. S.C. §714. Proemso. Notice of intention to purchase. July 11, 1940 [S. 31011 [Private, No. 497] Indian reservations. Reinstatement of certain entries or pur- chases. Filing of application for reinstatement. Provio. Legl requrements. July 11, 1940 18. 4090] [Private, No. 498] Ashland District Council, Boy Scouts of America. Donation of certain log house to trustees. scribe, cause a patent for such lot to issue to such citizen, upon pay- ment therefor of such price not less than the minimum provided in sections 2384 and 2385 of the United States Revised Statutes, as may be fixed by the Secretary, without requiring a showing of privity with any persons entitled to purchase the lot as a preemption under section 2383, United States Revised Statutes: Provided, That notice of intention to purchase the lot under the provisions of this Act is posted for a period of thirty days in the land office for the district in which the town site is situated and is published once a week for four consecutive weeks in some newspaper designated by the Secre- tary and that no valid protest is filed against such purchase. Approved, July 11, 1940. [CHAPTER 616] AN ACT For the relief of certain purchasers of, and entrymen upon, opened lands of certain Indian reservations. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to reinstate any entry or pur- chase, in existence December 31, 1936, on the opened lands within the ceded areas of the Cheyenne River, Coeur d'Alene, Colville, Fort Berthold, Fort Peck, Pine Ridge, Rosebud, or Standing Rock Indian Reservations, or any of the Chippewa lands in Minnesota opened in accordance with the Act of January 14, 1889 (25 Stat. 642), that has been canceled in toto for failure of the claimant thereof to make payment of the purchase money and interest due, or any such entry canceled in part by relinquishment, upon the filing by the claimant in the proper district land office within sixty days from the date of the enactment of this Act, an application for reinstatement accom- panied by the full amount of money due under governing laws: Provided, That all other requirements of the laws under which the entry or purchase was made have been complied with. Approved, July 11, 1940. [CHAPTER 617] AN ACT To authorize the Attorney General to donate on behalf of the United States to H.. Scott, D. W. Collins, Fred M. Gross, trustees, Ashland District Council, oy Scouts of America, the log house known as the John Secrest home, located on the site of the Federal Correctional Institution near Ashland, Kentucky. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Attorney General be, and he is hereby, authorized to donate on behalf of the United States to H. S. Scott, D. W. Collins, Fred M. Gross, trustees, Ashland District Council, Boy Scouts of America, that certain log ouse known as the Secrest house, located on the land comprising the site o the Federal Correctional Institution near Ashland, Ken- tucky, and formerly occupied by John Secrest, a pioneer in the Boy Scout movement and one of the first scoutmasters in that portion of Kentucky. The house having no value to the Government for insti- tutional purposes, and the ground upon which it stands being needed for other buildings, it shall be removed within such reasonable time te Attne eneral hall fix, and at no expense to the Government July 11, 140. Approved, July 11, 1940. 1336 [54 STAT.

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