Then the next section. it seems to me. is objectionable. It reads: SEc. 2. That any person who has made actual settlement or has made valuable improvements upon any oddnumbered section adjacent to the uncompleted portions of said road. or branch thereof. without contract of purchase therefor. with a bonafide intent to secure title thereto by purchase from said California and Oregon Railroad Company when the said company had earned the same by compliance with the conditions and requirements of said act. and being a citizen of the United States. or having declared his intention to become one. in compliance with the naturalization laws of the United States. shall he entitled to enter one quartersection. of one hundred and sixty acres each. of tile lands so settled upon or improved by such person. under the preemption or homestead laws of the United States. and in case such person has exhausted his or her right under said laws. then and in that case such person may enter one quartersection. or one hundred and sixty acres. of the land so settled upon or improved. by paying therefor $1.25 per acre. Perhaps the committee overlooked a statute which regulates this matter. In the event that these lands are declared forfeited to the Government. we have a statute. passed March 3. 1875. which declaresThat where anyectual settler who shall have paid for any lands situate within the limits of any grant of lands by Congress to aid in the construction of any railroad. the price of such lands being fixed by law at double minimum rates. and such railroad lands having been forfeited to the United States and restored to the public domain for failure to build such railroad. such person or persons shall have the right to locate. on anyunoccupied lands. an amount equal to their original entry. without further cost. except such fees as are now provided by law in preemption cases: Provided.
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