Volume 32
Public Law 57–945
Granting homesteaders on the abandoned Fort Bridger, Fort Sanders, and Fort Laramie military reservations, and Fort Laramie Wood Reservation, in Wyoming, the right to purchase one quarter section of public land on said reservations as pasture or grazing land, and for other purposes.
Approved May 31, 1902
Statutory text
An Act
Granting homesteaders on the abandoned Fort Bridger, Fort Sanders, and Fort Laramie military reservations, and Fort Laramie Wood Reservation, in Wyoming, the right to purchase one quarter section of public land on said reservations as pasture or grazing land, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That each person who has or
Abandoned military reservations.
Homestead settlers on, may purchase pasture lands.
may hereafter exercise the right of homestead entry on the abandoned Fort Bridger Reservation, or on the Fort Sanders, or the Fort Laramie abandoned military reservations, or the abandoned Fort Laramie Wood Reservation, to which the homestead laws are hereby extended, in the State of Wyoming, and is residing on said reservations under the pro-visions and requirements of the homestead law, or who is a resident and the owner in fee of one hundred and sixty acres thereon by purchase, shall, upon proper proof of settlement, homestead, or other legal title upon said reservations, be entitled to the right to purchase, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, not exceeding one quarter section of the public lands on said reservations as pasture or grazing land not otherwise disposed of: Provided, That land so
Proviso.
Lands available.
purchased be unfitted for cultivation and homestead entry by reason of lack of water for irrigating purposes or otherwise: And provided further, That said purchase of pasture or grazing land shall not, with the
Maximum holding,
land heretofore entered by the applicant, exceed in the aggregate three hundred and twenty acres.
Approved, May 31, 1902.