When the municipal authorities or the judge shall have entered at the proper land office the land, or any part thereof so settled and occupied as the site of such municipality, it shall be the duty of such municipal authorities or judge, his or their successors, to dispose of the trust so created and conferred by said act of Congress in the manner hereinafter specified.

Source: SL 1881, ch 135, § 3; CL 1887, § 1170; RPolC 1903, § 1572; repealed by omission RC 1919; re–enacted SL 1971, ch 69, § 3; SL 1992, ch 60, § 2.