Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-07-13
OFFICIAL.
[PUBLIc-No. S51

lPUBLIC-No. S5.
AN ACT supplemental to the act ap-
proved irst July, eighteen hundred
and sixty-four, for the disposal OF
coal lands and of town property in
the public domain"
BE IL enacted hy the Seuate and House
of Representatives. of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
in the case of any citizen of the Uni
ted States who, al the passage of this
act, may be in the business Of bona
fide actual coal mining on the public
lands, except ON lauds reserved by the
President of the United States for pub
lie uses, for purposes of commerce,
such citizen, upon making proof salts
factory to the register and receiver to
that effect. shall have the right to en-.
ter, according to legal subdivisions, a
quantity of land not exceeding one
hundred and sixty acres, to embrace
his improvements and mining premi.
scs at the minimum price Of twenty
dollars per acre, fixed in the coal and
town-propcrty act of first July. eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-four: Prori.
ded, That where the mining improve
ments and premises are on land sur
veyed at the passage of this act, a
sworn declaratory statement descrip-
tive of the tract and premises, show
ing also the extent and character of
the improvements, shall be filed with
in six months from the date of this
act; and proof and payment shall be
made within one year from the date of
such filing; but where such mining
premises may be on lands hereafter to
be surveyed, such declaratory state
ment shall be filed within three months
from the return to the district land Of
fee of the official township plat; and
proof and payment shall be made with
in one year from the date of such FL
ing.
Sec. 2. And belt further enacted, That
in the case of any city or town which,
at the passage of this act, may be ex-
isting on the public land, in which the
lots therein may be variant as to size
from the limitation fixed in the said
act Of first July, eighteen hundred and
sixty-four, and in which the lots and
buildings as municipal improvements
shall cover an area greater than sig
hundred and forty acres, such variance
as to size Of lots or excess in area shall
prove no bar to such city or town claim,
under said act of first July, eighteen
hundred and sixty-four. effect to be
given to this act according to such
regulations as may be prescribed by
the Secretary of the Interior: .Prori-
dcd, That the minimum price of each
said lots in any such town or city,
which may contain a greater number
OF square feet than the maximum
named in the act to which this is an
amendment, shall be increased to such
reasonable amount as the Secretary
of the Interior may by rule establish:
Prorided, further, That where mineral
veins are possessed, which possession
is recognized by local authority, and
TO the extent so possessed and recog-
nizcd, the title to town lots to be ac-
qnired shall be subject to such recog-
nized possession and the necessary
use thereof: PrOrided, hoacerer, That
nothing contained herein shall be SO
construed as to recognize any color of
title in possessors for mining purposes
as against the Government of the Uni.
ted States.
Approved, March 8, 1865.