§ 1099. Division into counties before opening to settlement; reservation for county seats

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Legislative history

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1. 1891

   Pub. L. 51–543 § 37 · 26 Stat. 989

   Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 1099

   (Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 543, § 37, 26 Stat. 1043.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 543, § 37, 26 Stat. 1043.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 37. That before any lands in Oklahoma are open to settlement it shall be Division of Oklahoma lands into counties. the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to divide the same into counties which shall contain as near as possible not less than seven hundred square miles in each county. In establishing said county line the Secretary is hereby authorized to extend the lines of the counties already located so as to make the area of said counties equal, as near as may be, to the area of the counties provided for in this act. At the first election for Naming counties. county officers the people of each FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 543-544. 1891. county may vote for a name for each county, and the name which receives the greatest number of votes shall be the name of such county: Provided further, Proviso. That as soon as the county lines are designated by the Secretary he shall reserve not to exceed one-half section of land in each county, County seats reserved. to be located near the center of said county, for county seat purposes, to be entered under sections twenty-three hundred and eighty-seven and twenty-three hundred and eighty-eight of the Revised Statutes.

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