Montana State Arid Land Grant Commission records 1895-1903

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Montana State Arid Land Grant Commission records 1895-1903

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The Montana State Arid Land Grant Board was formed in 1895 to manage land reclamation programs. In 1903 the commission was abolished and its duties transferred to the new Carey Land Act Board. Records (1895-1903) consist of interoffice and general correspondence, two overlapping minute books (1895-1899, 1897-1909), financial records, reports, and miscellany. [see successor Carey Land Act Board, 1903-1962, RS 32]

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Montana. State Arid Land Grant Commission

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In 1894 the United States Congress passed the Carey Land Act, amending the earlier Desert Land Act, to "aid the public land states in the reclamation of the desert lands therein, and the settlement, cultivation and sale thereof in small tracts to actual settlers." The Act granted to the states, free of cost, "such desert lands ... as the state may cause to be irrigated, reclaimed, occupied, and not less than 20 acres of each 160 acre tract cultivated by actual settlers." The state w...