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I Calendar No.982
68TH CONGRESS SENATE 1
2d Session NQ 91
GRANTING TO CERTAIN CLAIMANTS THE PREFERE IGr.
TO PURCHASE UNAPPROPRIATED PUBLIC LANDS
JANUARY 22 (calendar day, JANUARY 23), 1925.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. STANFIELD, from the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H. R. 8522]
The Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, to whom was
referred H. R. 8522, granting to certain claimants the preference
right to purchase unappropriated public lands, having considered
the same, report it to the Senate with the recommendation that it
do-pass with the following amendments, to wit:
Page 1, line 10, after the word That, insert the following:
any owner in good faith of land shown by the official public land surveys to be
bounded in whole or in part by such erroneously meandered area, and who ac-
quired title to such land prior to this enactment, or
Page 2, line 14, after the word claimant, insert the following
under the public land laws.
Page 2, after line 14, insert the following new section, to be num-
bered section 3:
SEc. 3. In event such erroneously meandered land is bounded by two or more
tracts of land held in private ownership with apparent riparian rights indicated
by the official township plat of survey at date of disposal of title by the United
States, the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall have discretionary
power to cause such meandered area, when surveyed, to be divided into such
tracts or lots as will permit a fair division of such meandered area among the
owners of such surrounding or adjacent tracts, under the provisions of this act.
In administering the provisions of this act, where there shall exist a conflict of
claims falling within its operation, if any claimant shall have placed valuable
improvements upon the land involved, or shall have reduced the same to cul-
tivation, then to the extent of such improvements or cultivation, such claimant
shall be given preference in adjustment of such conflict: Provided, That no prefer-
ence right of entry under this act shall be recognized for a greater area than one
hundred sixty acres in one body to any one applicant, whether an individual, an
association, or a corporation.
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