Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-05-17
GENERAL NATURR-No. 1851
AN ACT TO encourage the growth of timber or
western praires

AN ACT TO encourage the growth of timber on
western prairies.
BE u enacted by the Senate and House of RsDre-
sentdtires of the United States of america in Com
gress assembled, That any person who shall plant.
protect, and keep in healthy growing condi-
ton for ten years; forty acres OF timber, the
apart each way, on any quarter section of any
OF the public lands of the United States, shall
be entitled to patent for the whole OF said
quarter section at the expiration OF said ten
years, on making proof OF such fact by not less
than two credible witnesses: Provided, That only
one quarter In any section shall be thus granted.
az, kc q; th; Inst tns person applying for the BEN
register Of the land Office in which he or she is
about to make such entry, make affidavit a.
fore said register or receiver that said entry is
made Tor the cultivation of timber, and upon
ding said affidavit with said register and re-
ceiver, and on payment of ten dollars, he or she
shall thereupOn be permitted to enter the guam
tity Of land specified: Provided, hoyerer, That no
certificate shall be given or patent issue there
for until the expiration OF at least ten years
from the date of such entry; and If at the expl-
ration OF such time, or at any time within three
years thereafter, the person making such en-
try, or II he or she be dead, his or her heirs or
legal representatives, shall prove by two credi-
BILE witnesses that he, she, or they have planted
and protected such quantity and character of
timber as aforesaid, they shall receive the pat
ent for such quarter-secti0n Of land.
SIC. 8. That II at any time after the fling Of
patent for said land, 1t shall be proven after
due notice to the party making such entry and
claiming 20 cultivate such timber, to the salts
faction OF the register of the land-offi CO. that
such person has abandoned or failed 10 milf
vate, protect, and keep in good Condition snch
timber, then, and in that event, said land sh All
revert to the United States. '-''
SEC. 4. That each and every person VIM. NM
der the provisions Of an act entitled Gan Act 10
secure homesteads to actual settlers ON the pub-
lie domain" approved May twentieth. eiehteen
hundred and sixty-twe, or any amendmsnt
thereto, having homestead on said public do
main, who: at the end OF the third wear of his
or her residence thereon, shall have had under
cultivation, for two years, one acre of timber.
the trees thereon not being more than tvelve
feet apart each way, and in q good, thrifty con-
dition, for each and every sixteen acres OF said
homestead, shall, upon due proof Of said fact
by two credible witnesses, receive his or her
patent for said homestead.
SEC. b. That no land acquired under proyis-
ions OF this act, shall, In any event, become LA
BILE to the satisfaction Of any debt or debts con-
tracted prior TO the issuing Of patent therefor.
SBc. 6. That the Commissioner OF the Ge nerai
Land Once " hereby required to prepare and
issue such rules and regulations, Consistent WITH
this oct, ~ shall be necessary and prouer TO
carry its provisions into effect and that the reQ
listers and the receivers Of the several land-offi-
ces shall be entitled TO receive the Same COM
ponsation for anv lands entered under the pro-
visions Of this that they are nov entitled to