Volume 28 · 665
Public Law 53–92
To amend and extend the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the opening of certain abandoned military reservations, and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.
Approved February 15, 1895
Statutory text
An Act
To amend and extend the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the opening of certain abandoned military reservations, and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the provisions of the Act approved August twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Chs. 92, 94, 95. 1895. entitled “An Act to provide for the opening of certain abandoned military
Ante, p.491.
reservations, and for other purposes,” are hereby extended to all
Vol. 23, p. 103.
abandoned military reservations which were placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior under any law in force prior to the Act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four.
Sec. 2.
That the preference right of entry given to actual settlers by
Preferences to homestead settlers extended.
the terms of the Act to which this is an amendment shall, so far as the lands to which the provisions, of said Act are extended, take effect and continue for six months from the date of this amendatory Act.
Approved, February 15, 1895.