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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 27 — Public Lands in Oklahoma

§ 1095. Reservations between sections for highway purposes

Statutory text

There shall be reserved public highways four rods wide between each section of land in said former Territory of Oklahoma, the section lines being the center of said highways; but no deduction shall be made, where cash payments are provided for, in the amount to be paid for each quarter section of land by reason of such reservation. But if the said highway shall be vacated by any competent authority, the title to the respective strips shall inure to the then owner of the tract of which it formed a part by the original survey.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 51–182 § 23 · 26 Stat. 81

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 1095

    (May 2, 1890, ch. 182, § 23, 26 Stat. 92.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (May 2, 1890, ch. 182, § 23, 26 Stat. 92.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 23. That there shall be reserved public highways four rods wide between each section of land in said Territory, the section lines being the center of said highways; but no deduction shall be made, where cash payments are provided for, in the amount to be paid for each quarter section of land by reason of such reservation. But if the said highway shall be vacated by any competent authority, the title to the respective strips shall inure to the then owner of the tract of which it formed a part by the original survey.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(May 2, 1890, ch. 182, § 23, 26 Stat. 92.)

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