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Volume 45

Public Law 70–305

To amend the Act of April 25, 1922, as amended, entitled “An Act authorizing extensions of time for the payment of purchase money due under certain homestead entries and Government-land purchases within the former Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Indian Reservations, North Dakota and South Dakota.“

Approved March 31, 1928

Statutory text

An Act

To amend the Act of April 25, 1922, as amended, entitled “An Act authorizing extensions of time for the payment of purchase money due under certain homestead entries and Government-land purchases within the former Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Indian Reservations, North Dakota and South Dakota.“

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

That the Act entitled “An Act authorizing extensions of time for the payment of purchase money due under certain homestead entries and Government-land purchases within the former Cheyenne River and Standing

Vol. 42, p. 499.

Rock Indian Reservations, North Dakota and South Dakota,” approved April 25, 1922, be amended so as to read as follows:

Further extension of time allowed for payments on lands in former.

Vol. 43, p. 1184, amended.

“That any homestead entryman or purchaser of Government lands within the former Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Indian Reservations in North Dakota and South Dakota who is unable to make payment of purchase money due under his entry or contract of purchase as required by existing law or regulations, on application duly verified showing that he is unable to make payment as required, shall be granted an extension of time for payment of one-fourth the amount, including principal and interest, due and unpaid on his entry or purchase until the 1st day of December, 1928; the remainder to be paid in three equal annual installments falling due on December 1, 1929, December 1, 1930, and December 1, 1931; all such amounts to bear interest at the rate of 5 per centum per annum until the payment

Proviso.

Entry canceled if complete payment not made.

dates: Provided, That upon failure to make complete payment of any installment the entry shall be canceled and the money paid forfeited.”

Approved, March 31, 1928.

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