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SELECTION CONFIRMATION. SECS. 602-603 



SEC. 602. PREFERENCE RIGHT TO SELECT OPEN INDIAN 

 LANDS. 



Any state or territory entitled to indemnity school lands or entitled 

 to select lands for educational purposes under existing law may select 

 such lands within the boundaries of any Indian reservation in such 

 state or territory from the surplus lands thereof, purchased by the 

 United States after allotments have been made to the Indians of such 

 reservation, and prior to the opening of such reservation to settlement. 

 (Act Mar. 2, '95; 28 Stat. L., p. 899; 6 Fed. Stat Ann., p. 468.) 



This is from the Indian Appropriation Act of March 2, 1895. 



The act for opening the Colville reservation has no provision to conform to 

 above. (See chapter 1126, p. 80, vol. 34 (1905-'07), U. S. Stat. L.) 



Cited: 20 Land Dec. 470; 24 L. D. 91; 32 L. D. 576; 33 L. D. 611; 34 

 L. D. 55. 



SEC. 603. EARLY SELECTIONS CONFIRMED. 



Whereas, by section 583 of this code, certain lands were granted to 

 the State of Washington for school purposes; and 



Whereas, a doubt has arisen as to what lands were granted by said 

 section; and 



Whereas, by section 578 of this code the county commissioners of 

 counties in said territory were authorized to locate and select certain 

 lands in lieu of sections sixteen and thirty-six occupied by actual 

 settlers; and 



Whereas, by the act of Congress of February twenty-sixth, eighteen 

 hundred and fifty-nine, entitled "An act to authorize settlers upon six- 

 teenth and thirty-sixth sections, who settled before the surveys of pub- 

 lic lands, to preempt their settlements," certain lands were appropriated 

 for school purposes in lieu of such as might be patented by preemptors, 

 and to compensate deficiencies for school purposes where said sections 

 sixteen and thirty-six were fractional in quantity, or where one or both 

 were wanting by reason of the township being fractional, or from any 

 natural cause whatever, and providing for their selection; and 



Whereas, certain lieu lands have been selected by the Territory of 

 Washington under said acts of Congress: therefore, [be it enacted, etc.] 



SEC. 1. In all cases where sections sixteen and thirty-six, or either or 

 any of them, or any portion thereof, have been occupied by actual set- 

 tlers prior to survey thereof, and the county commissioners of the coun- 

 ties in which said sections so occupied as aforesaid are situated, have, 

 under said section 578, located or selected other lands in sections or frac- 

 tional sections, as the cas.e may be, within their respective counties, in 

 lieu of said section so occupied as aforesaid, the lands so located or 

 selected, when the same shall have been approved by the Secretary of 

 the Interior, shall be deemed and taken to have been granted to said 

 state by said section 583, and the title of said state thereto is hereby 

 confirmed. 



