Volume 21
Public Law 46–187
abolishing the military reservations of Fort Abercrombie, Fort Seward, and Fort Ransom, all in the Territory of Dakota, and authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to have the lands embraced therein surveyed and made subject to homestead and pre-emption entry and sale, the same as other public lands.
Approved June 10, 1880
Statutory text
An act
abolishing the military reservations of Fort Abercrombie, Fort Seward, and Fort Ransom, all in the Territory of Dakota, and authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to have the lands embraced therein surveyed and made subject to homestead and pre-emption entry and sale, the same as other public lands.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the military reservations of Fort Abercrombie, Fort Seward, and Fort Ransom, all in the Territory of Dakota, be, and the same are hereby, abolished, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to have the lands embraced therein
Proviso.
surveyed and made subject to homestead and pre-emption entry anti sale, the same as other public lands: Provided, The rights of all actual settlers, entitled to the benefits of the homestead and pre-emption laws of the United States, who now occupy in good faith any portion of the land embraced within any of said reservations, shall date from the day of their actual settlement thereon; and in
Proviso.
perfecting their titles thereto under the homestead or pre-emption laws, the time such settlers have occupied and improved their said lands shall be allowed: Provided further, That when the lands embraced in said reservations, shall be surveyed, the claims of all such actual settlers shall be made to conform to the lines of the government survey.
Approved, June 10, 1880.