Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-09-18
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RELATING TO Usage and
DIMINISHED RESERVE
LANDS.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE, }
HARMED, KANSAS, Z

Inc following act Oh congress approved
Nays, 1880, and instructions Hereunder
are published by direction of the Hon.
Commissioner of the General Land Office:
AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF SETTLERS
UPON THE Usage TRUST AND DIMINISHED
RESERVE LANDS IN KANSAS. AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES.
"Be 1t enacted By the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States of America IN Congress assembled,
That all actual settlers under existing
laws upon the Usage Indian trust and dr.
minished reserve lands in Kansas lany
failure to comply with such existing laws
Notwithstanding shall be allowed sixty
days after day to be fixed by public nos
tice by advertisement in two newspapers
in each of the proper land districts. which
day shall not be later than ninety days
after the passage of this act, within which
to make proof of their claims. and to pay
one-fourth the purchase price thereof,
and the said parties shall pay the balance
of said purchase-price in three equal am
nual installments thereafter: Provided,
That nothing herein contained shall be
construed to prevent an earlier payment
of the whole or any installment OF said
purchase money as aforesaid.
And if default be made by any settler
in the payment of any portion or install
ment at the time il becomes due under the
foregoing provisions, his entire claim,
and any money he may have paid thereon,
proper notice, be offered for sale accOrd>
ing to the terms hereinafter prescribed.
unless before the day fixed for such offer
ing, the whole amount of purchase money
shall be paid by such claimant, SO AZ 20
entitle him to receive his patent for the
tract embracing his claim.
SEC. =. That all the said Indian lands
remaining unsold and unappropriated and
not embraced in the claims provided for
in section one of this act, shall be subject
to disposal to actual settlers only, having
the qualifications of preemptOrs on the
public lands. Such settlers shall make
due application to the register with proof
of settlement and qualifications as afore-
said; and. upon payment of not less than
one>fourth the purchase price shall be pei
mitted to enter not exceeding One>quarter
section each. the balacce to be paid in
three equal installments. with like penal
ties, liabilities and restrictions as to de-
fault and forfeiture as provided in section
one of this act.
SEC. 8. All lands upon which such de-
fault has continued for ninety DAYS shall
be placed upon list, and the Secretary of
the Interior shall cause the same to be
duly proclaimed for sale in the manner
prescribed for the offering of the public
lands, but not exceeding One>quartcr Sec
ton shall be sold to any one purchaser. at
a price not less than the price fixed by
law. but such lands upon which such de-
fault shall be made, shall be offered for
sale by advertisement of not less than
thirty DAYS in two newspapers in the prop
er land districts respectively and unless
the purchase price be fully paid before the
day named in the notice, shall be sold for
cash to the highest bidder ut not less than
the price fixed by law. And all such
lands, subject to unpaid overdue lnstall>
ments. shall be so offered once every year.
And if any of said lands shall remain IN,
sold after the offering as aforesaid, they
shall be subject to private entry. for cash
in tracts not exceeding one quarter section
by one purchaser.
SEC. 4. After the payment of the first
installment as herinafter provided for,
such lands shall be subject to taxation ac>
cording TO the laws of the State of Kansas,
as other lands are or may he in said State
Provided. That no sale of any such lands
! for taxes shall operate to deprive the Uni.
ted States of said lands or anv mart of