Public Law 46–19

That the time at which preemptors on the public lands in the State of Minnesota, including the lands within the Fort Ridgely and Sioux Indian reservations, and the old Sioux Indian reservation in the county of Grant, Territory of Dakota, are now required to make final proof and payment, be, and the same is hereby, extended two years from October first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, in all cases when the preemptor shall make due proof before the register and receiver of the local land office in the district in which their lands are situated that their crops have been destroyed or seriously injured by grasshoppers within two years prior to October first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.