Skip to content

Volume 32 · 841

Public Law 57–568

Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue patent to the Rochford Cemetery Association to certain lands for cemetery purposes.

Approved February 18, 1903

Statutory text

An Act

Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue patent to the Rochford Cemetery Association to certain lands for cemetery purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue a patent to the Rochford Cemetery Association, of the town of Rochford, South Dakota, for cemetery purposes, to the following-described land, to wit:

Description.

The south half of the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section twenty-two, and the north half of the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section twenty-seven, township two north, range three east, Black Hills meridian, embracing in all forty acres of land, in Pennington County, South Dakota, said patent to contain the provision that said land shall be used for cemetery purposes only: Provided,

Proviso.

Price per acre.

That the said association pay one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre therefor.

Approved, February 18, 1903.

Parsed from the official Statutes at Large USLM XML in 32.xml