Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-05-25
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the Third Session of the Forty
Second Congress.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
GENERAL NATURE->No. 1927
An Act to amend an act entitled "Au act to en-
able honorably discharged soldiers and sal
Iors their widows and orphan children, to ac-
ouire homesteads on the public lands of the
United States" and the amendments thereto.
BE If enacted by the Senate and House of Represent
atiyes of the United States of America in Congress
sembled, That section two of the act entitled
"An act to amend an act relating to soldiers
ard sailors homesteads," approved June
eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy two, be
amended so as to read as follows: That any per-
son entitled under the provisions of the forego-
ing sections to enter homestead, who may
have heretofore entered under the ehon!stead
laws quantity of land less than one hundred
and sixty acres, shall be permitted to enter so
much land as, when added to the quantity pre-
viously entered, shall not exceed one hundred
and sixty acres.
Approved, March 8, 1873.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 1881
An Act for the relief Of the State Of Connecticut
and other States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and house of
Representatives of the United States of Ameri-
ca in Congress assembled That the Secretary Of
the Treasury be, and he is hereby directed, out
Of any money appropriated, to continue the
settlement of accounts presented under the act
of July twenty seventh, eighteen hundred and
or his duly auth orized agents, any amounts ad-
vanced by the said State in payment of chap
lains, extra surgeons, or assistant surgeons en-
ployed by said State in said capacities during
the late war /; the said claims to be settled by
the proper accounting officers of the treasury
upon vouchers filed : Provided, That certificates
of actual employment are filed with the &C
counts.
Sec. 2. That when the vouchers of other
States for payments made TO chaplains, extra
assistant SIm ri
with those of Connecticut are filed, the Treas
ury Department shall adjust and settle them
according to the provisions ofthe foregoing Sec
ton.
Approved, March 3, 1873.
GENERAL NATURE--No. 1O4l
An Act to authorize the interment of henora>
bly, discharged soldiers sailors and marines
in the national cemeteries of the United
States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives OF the United States OF Ameri-
ca in Congress assembled That honorably
discharged soldiers, sailors and marines, who
served during the late war either in the regular
volunteer forces dying subsequent to the pas
sage of this act, may be buried in any national
cemetery of the United States free of cost, and
their graves shall receive the same care and at,
tention as the graves of those already buried.
The production Of the honorable discharge of
the deceased shall be authority for the super
intendent of the cemetery to permit the inter>
ment
approved, March 8, 1873,
GENERAL NATURE-No 1851
An Act to encourage the growth of timber oA
western prairies
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of Ameri-
ca in Congress assembled That any person who
shall plant, protect and keep in healthy grow
ing condition for ten years forty acres of tim
Der, the trees thereon being not more than twelve
feet apart each way, on any quarter section of
the public lands of the United States. shall be
entitled to patent for the whole of said quar-
ter 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 grand
ed
Sec; That the person applying for the ben
eht OF this act shall, upon, application to the
register OF the land Office in which he or she is
ABOUT to make entry, make affidavit before said
Register or receiver that said entry is made for
The cultivation of timber, and upon filing said
affidavit with said register and receiver, and on
payment of ten dollars, he or she shall there's
upon be permitted to enter the quantity of land
specified Provided, however, That no certif
cate shall be given or patent issue therefor until
the expiration of at least ten years from the date
of such entry; and if at the expiration of such
time, or at any time within three years thereaf-
ter the person making such entry, or if he or
atives, shall prove by two credible witnesses
that he, she, or they hsve planted and for not
less than ten years have cultivated and pro-
tected such quantity and character of timber as
aforesaid, they shall receive the patent for such
quarter section of land.
Sec That if at any time after the filing of
said affidavit, and prior to the issuing of the
patent for said land, it shall be proven, after
due notice to the party making such entry and
claiming to cultivate such timber, to the salts
faction OF the register of the land Office, that
such person has abandoned or failed to culti-
Yate, protect and keep in good condition such
lumber, then and in that event, said land shall
revert to the United States.
=, DEC 4Ihat each and every person who, under
the provisions of an act entitled San act to Sc
cure homesseads to actual settlers on the public
hundred and sixty two, or anv a,,oen5mont
thereto, having homestead on said pubIic dos
man, who, at the end of the third wear of his or
her residence thereon, shall have had under
cultivation, Tor two years, one acre of timber,
Inc trees thereon not being more than twelve
feet apart each way, and in 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 That no land acquired under provisions
OF this act shall, in any event, become liable to
the satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted
prior to the issuing of patents therefor.
Dec . That the Commissioner of the General
i -aha Ohice is hereby required to prepare and
tSs such rules and regulations, consistent with
carr, aG., as shall be necessary and proper 10
isters S provisions into effect; and that the reg
shall he en,;Giyers of the several land offices
of Ell iot any lands entered under the provisions
49, s .t tnat Ihey are nor entitled 10 receive
n mnen tne same quantity of land il entered with
Sec That fho eaL -,