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Show THE FORT LARAMIE RESERVATION. RESER-VATION. This military reservation covers an area of over three hundred and sixty re mire miles; it extends three miles uu each side of the North Platte and commencing at a point about three miles west of the flag-staff at Fort Laramie, it terminates at Scott's Bluff, about fifty-seven miles down the Platte. A general demand for the reduction re-duction of this little principality has arisen during the past three or four years, as many desirable locations for settlement and stock ranches are included in-cluded within the boundaries oi this reservation. Delegate Steele has taken the matter in hand this winter and has introduced the following bill: "To reduce the area of the military reservation of Fort Laramie, Wyoming Wyo-ming territory. "Be it enacted, etc., That the military mili-tary reservation of Fort Laramie, in the territory of Wyoming, is hereby reduced to an area of fifty-four square miles; and the said reservation shall, after the passage of this act, be limited and bounded us described and declared de-clared in executive order of June 20, 1SG9. Sec. 2. That all that portion of land added to the said reservation of Fort Laramie, by executive order of April 2, 1872, is hereby eliminated therefrom there-from and restored to the body of the public lands, and shall be held Lo be subject to ail provisions of the laws ol the United States relating to the public pub-lic lands, in the same manner and to the same extent as i! suid lands had never constituted a portion of said military reservation." |