Public Law 54–256

That the lands situated in the

Fort Sully Military Reservation.

Selection of lands by South Dakota.

Vol. 25, p. 679.

Fort Sully Military Reservation, in the State of South Dakota, may be selected at any time within one year after the passage of this Act, or the approval of the survey of said reservation by the Secretary of the Interior, by the State of South Dakota as a part of the lands granted to the State under the provisions of an Act to provide for the admission of South Dakota into the Union, approved February twenty second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for indemnity school lands; and when said lands are selected as herein provided the Secretary of the Interior shall cause patents to be issued therefor to the State of South

Patents.

Provisos.

Preference to State in selecting lands.

Dakota: Provided, That the State of South Dakota shall have a preference right over any person or corporation to select said lands subject to entry by said State, granted thereto by the Act of Congress approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for a period of sixty days after the foregoing lands have been surveyed and duly declared to be subject to selection and entry under the general land laws of the United States: Provided further, That such preference right

Rights of settlers not impaired.

shall not accrue against the homestead or preemption settlers on any of said lands at the date of the passage of this Act.