Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1876 — Bill to Protect Settlers or Certain Public Lands. [ARTICLE]

Bill to Protect Settlers or Certain Public Lands.

The following ifi the foil text of the bill passed by the United States Senate, Jan. 27, to confirm the pre-emption and homestead entries of public lands within the limit* of railroad grants in cases where such entries had been made under the regulation* of the Land Department: it enacted tv the Senate and Bouse of Representatives of ths Unit'd Blates of America In Congress tuiemblsd, That all pre-emption and homestead entrie* or entries in compliance with aay taw of the United States ot public lands made in good faith by actual settlers upon tracts of land of not more than 160 acres each, within the limits of any land grant prior to the time when notice of withdrawal of lands embraced in such grant was received at the local land office of the district in which ouch lands are situated, or after their restoration to market by order of the General Land Office, and where the preemption and homestead taws have been compiled with and proper proofs thereof been made by parties holding such tracts or parcels, they shall bo confirmed, and patents for the same shall issue to the parties entitled thereto. Sec. 2. That when at the time of such withdrawal as aforesaid, a valid pre-emption or homo-, stead claim existed upon any lands within the Umits at m muA grsnta. which rftarwwd w«a abandoned, and under decisions and rulings of the Land Department were re-entered by pre-emption or homestead claimant* who have complied with the taw* governing preemption or homestead an tries,or shall make the proper proofs required under such law*, such entries shall be deemed valid, and patents shall iaane therefor to the persons entitled Sac. A That all such pre-emption and homestead entries which may have been made by permission of the Land Department, or in pursuance of the rules and instructions thereof, within the limit* of any land grant at a time subsequent to the expiration of such grant, shall be deemed valid, and a compliance with the taws wd the making of the proof required shall entitle the holder ot such claim to a patent therefor.