336 ACTS OF CONGRESS 



SEC. 593 INDEMNITY LANDS. 



similar objects. (Act Feb. 22, '89; 25 Stat. L., p. 682, sec. 19; 6 Fed. Stat. 

 Ann., p. 477.) 



Selection of lands: sees. 42 et seq.; sec. 583 and sec. 591, ante. 



Reservation of lands: sees. 598, 613 and 625, post; Const., Art. XXVI, ante. 



Selection from Indian reservation after allotment : sec. 602, post 



Method of selection prescribed : sec. 48, ante. 



See notes to sec. 593, post. 



Cited : 13 Land Dec. 709, 712 ; 16 L. D. 529 ; 24 L. D. 549. 



CHAPTER 43. 



SELECTION OF GRANTED LANDS. 

 SEC. 593. Indemnity for Lands Lost to State. 



594. Selection of Same. 



595. Preference Right to Select. 



596. State May Procure Surveys; Preference Right. 



597. Precedence in Survey of Government Lands. 



598. Lands May be Withdrawn From Selection. 



599. Selection of Lands With Coal Reserved. 



600. Same. 



601. Claims of Indian Lands; Contests. 



602. Selection of Open Indian Lands. 



603. Prior Selections Confirmed. 



604. Fee Simple in Granted Lands. 



Cross-Reference: GRANTS OF LANDS: sec. 581 et seq., ante; 

 LANDS WITHDRAWN FROM SELECTION: sec. 623 et seq,., post. 



SEC. 593. INDEMNITY FOR LOST LANDS. 



Where settlements with a view to pre-emption or homestead have 

 been, or shall hereafter be made, before the survey of the lands in the 

 field, which are found to have been made on sections sixteen or thirty- 

 six, those sections shall be subject to the claims of such settlers; and 

 if such sections, or either of them, have been or shall be granted, 

 reserved or pledged for the use of schools or colleges in the state or 

 territory in which they lie, other lands of equal acreage are hereby 

 appropriated and granted, and may be selected by said state or territory, 

 in lieu of such as may be thus taken by pre-emption or homestead 

 settlers. And other lands of equal acreage are also hereby appropriated 

 and granted, and may be selected by said state or territory where 

 sections sixteen or thirty-six are mineral land, or are included within 

 any Indian, military or other reservation, or are otherwise disposed 

 of by the United States: Provided, Where any state is entitled to said 

 sections sixteen and thirty-six, or where said sections are reserved to 

 any territory, notwithstanding the same may be mineral land or 

 embraced within a military, Indian or other reservation, the selection 

 of such lands in lieu thereof by said state or territory shall be a waiver 



