Volume 21
Public Law 46–47
to restore the lands included in the Fort Reading and Fort Crook military reservations, in the State of California, to the public domain, and for other purposes.
Approved February 15, 1881
Statutory text
An Act
to restore the lands included in the Fort Reading and Fort Crook military reservations, in the State of California, to the public domain, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the lands included in the Fort Reading military reservation and in the Fort Crook military Reservation in the State of California, are hereby restored to the public domain.
Sec. 2.
That all patents heretofore issued to any lands within the Fort Reading military reservation and Fort Crook military reservation are hereby confirmed.
Sec. 3.
That the rights of all settlers on said reservations, to acquire
Rights of settlers preserved.
title under the homestead and preemption laws, are hereby recognized and affirmed to the extent such settlers would have acquired by settling on public lands.
Approved, February 15, 1881.