Volume 29
Public Law 54–250
To amend an Act entitled “An Act to forfeit certain lands heretofore granted for the purpose of aiding in the construction of railroads, and for other purposes,” approved September twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and the several acts amendatory thereof.
Approved February 18, 1897
Statutory text
An Act
To amend an Act entitled “An Act to forfeit certain lands heretofore granted for the purpose of aiding in the construction of railroads, and for other purposes,” approved September twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and the several acts amendatory thereof.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section three of an Act
Forfeited land grants.
Right of settlers to purchase extended two years.
Vol 26, p. 496; Vol. 27, pp. 59, 427; Vol. 28, p. 15.
Ante, p. 4.
entitled “An Act to forfeit certain lands heretofore granted for the purpose of aiding in the construction of railroads, and for other purposes,” approved September twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and the several acts amendatory thereof, be, and the same is, amended so as to extend the time, within which persons entitled to purchase lands forfeited by said Act shall be permitted to purchase the same, in the quantities and upon the terms provided in said section and the amendments thereto, at any time prior to January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed
Proviso.
Adverse claims.
as to interfere with any adverse claim that may have attached to the lands or any part thereof.
Approved, .