Chippewa Agricultural Lands, Minnesota

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1908 - Homestead law - 11 pages

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Page 1 - Indian tribe, shall by operation of law or proclamation of the president of the United States, be open to settlement, they shall be disposed of to actual settlers only, under the provisions of the homestead law, except section twenty-three hundred and one of the revised statutes of the United States which shall not apply...
Page 4 - That any person who has not heretofore had the benefit of the homestead or preemption law, and who has failed from any cause to perfect the title to a tract of land heretofore entered by him under either of said laws, may make a second homestead entry under the provisions of this act.
Page 3 - Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota," approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, shall be subject to the right of the United States to construct and maintain dams for the purpose of creating reservoirs in aid of navigation, and no claim or right of...
Page 3 - Island, an'd shall be disposed of by the United States to actual settlers only, under the provisions of the homestead law...
Page 4 - SEC. 4. That all land in any of said reservations, the Winnibigoshish Indian Reservation, Cass Lake Indian Reservation, Chippewas of the Mississippi Reservation, or Leech Lake Indian Reservation not included in the National Forest hereby created as above described, heretofore classified or designated as agricultural lands, is hereby declared to be open to homestead settlement; and any of said land which has been classified as timber land shall be open to homestead settlement as soon and as fast as...
Page 4 - ... occupancy thereof as such homestead ; and any conveyance of said lands so taken as a homestead, or any contract touching the same, or lien thereon, created prior to the date of such patent, shall be null and void.
Page 3 - ... pay to the United States for the land so taken by him, in addition to the fees provided by law, the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre.
Page 1 - June 20, 1910, has been fixed upon as the time on and after which these lands will be opened to entry. 4. Section 4 of the act of May 23, 1908, declares that the lands in the Winnibigoshish, Cass Lake, Chippewa of the Mississippi, or Leech Lake Indian reservations not included in the national forest created thereby are open to homestead settlement, and that as fast as the timber is removed from timber land on any of said reservations not included in the national forest it shall be open to homestead...
Page 4 - Reservation, Chippewas of the Mississippi Reservation, or Leech Lake Indian Reservation, not included in the National Forest hereby created as above described, heretofore classified or designated as agricultural lands, is hereby declared to be open to homestead settlement; and any of said land which has been classified as timber land shall be open to homestead settlement as soon and as fast as the timber is removed therefrom, in conformity with the homestead law, except that none of said lands shall...
Page 4 - That each settler under and in accordance with the provisions of said homestead laws shall pay to the United States for the land so taken by him .the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents for each and every acre, in five equal...

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