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Volume 33

Public Law 58–855

To authorize the State of South Dakota to select school and indemnity lands in the ceded portion of the Great Sioux Reservation, and for other purposes.

Approved March 30, 1904

Statutory text

An Act

To authorize the State of South Dakota to select school and indemnity lands in the ceded portion of the Great Sioux Reservation, and for other purposes.

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

That the State of South Dakota shall have the right to select school indemnity or other lands granted to the State by the enabling act providing for the admission of said State into the Union in the ceded portion of the Great Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, and said lands are hereby made subject to such selection.

Sec. 2.

The general laws for the disposal of the public lands of the United States are hereby extended and made applicable to the said ceded portion of the Great Sioux Reservation in the said State.

Approved, March 30, 1904.

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