Volume 21
Public Law 46–84
to authorize the sale of Fort Logan, Montana Territory, and to establish a new post on the frontier.
Approved May 8, 1880
Statutory text
An act
to authorize the sale of Fort Logan, Montana Territory, and to establish a new post on the frontier.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of War be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to establish a new military post at or near the Mussel Shell River in the Territory of Montana, as he may deem best for the protection of the frontier from Indian
Proviso.
Limit of cost.
incursions: Provided, The total cost of the same shall not exceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars.
Sec. 2.
The Secretary' of War is hereby authorized and directed, after
Sale of Fort Logan, Montana.
Proceeds of sale.
due notice, to sell at public auction or otherwise dispose of in parcels or otherwise, as he may deem most advantageous to the government, the site, reservation and buildings of Fort Logan, Montana Territory, and re invest the proceeds of such sale in the erection of the post authorized by the first section of this act: Provided, That such portion
Proviso.
of said buildings, or of the materials thereof, as can be, profitably removed to said new post, may be reserved from sale and so removed.
Approved, May 8, 1880.