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Volume 39

Public Law 64–213

Providing for patents to homesteads on the ceded portion of the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.

Approved July 3, 1916

Statutory text

An Act

Providing for patents to homesteads on the ceded portion of the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.

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

That any person, who, prior to the passage of this Act, made homestead entry on the ceded portion of Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming, who has not abandoned the same, whose entry is still existent and of record, and who has been unable to secure water for the irrigation of the land covered by his entry, may secure title to the same upon the submission of satisfactory proof that he has established and maintained actual bona fide residence

Residence required.

upon his land for a period of not less than eight months, and upon payment of all sums remaining due on said land, as provided

Vol. 33, p. 1019.

for by the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five.

Approved, July 3, 1916.

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