Public Law 60–238

That the survey, made under

Cane Island. Ark.

Acceptance of State survey.

the authority of the State of Arkansas in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, of a small area of land known as Cane Island, situated in Saint Francis River, in townships numbered fourteen and fifteen north, range six east, Craighead County, Arkansas, into blocks numbered, respectively, from one to thirty-three, inclusive, shall, upon the filing in the local land office, and with the Commissioner of the General Land Office, of the plat of said survey and the field notes thereof, be accepted as the governmental official survey of said body of land.

Sec. 2.

That, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the

Homestead entries by occupants allowed.

Secretary of the Interior, all persons who at the date of the passage of this Act are bona fide occupants and owners of improvements situated upon any of the blocks returned by said survey, shall have a preferred right at any time within one year from the passage of this Act to make entry, under the provisions of the homestead laws, of the block or blocks so occupied and upon which their improvements are situated, as their respective interests may appear, or to make purchase of such

Purchase.

lands at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents peracre: Provided,

Provisos.

Limit.

That no person shall be permitted to acquire title under this Act to more than one hundred and sixty acres: Provided further, That nothing

Previous surveys.

in this Act shall be construed to grant to any person title to any part of the island, herein referred to, which is shown to be within the limits of land previously surveyed and disposed of by the Government.