The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-08
An Act to Encourage the Growth OF Tim
ber on Western Prairles.

Be IL enacted by The Sopntc and House of Represen-
tdtiueS of the Uniied States of America, in Con-
gresS assembled
SECTION |. That any person who shall plant,
Rrottect ana keep in healthy gqpTh ha rees here
on not being more than twelve leeI apart ,,y eaGn
way on any quarter-secton OF any Oh tne pubic i
lands of the United States, shall be entitled 10
patent for the whole of said quarter-section at the
expiration of said ten years, on making proof oil
such fact by not less than two creditable witness
ses: Prouided, That only one quarter In any Sec
tion shall be thus granted.
SEC. q That the person applying for the ben
eft of this act shall, upon application to the reg
to make such entry, make affidavit before SAID
register or receiver that said entry is made 1or te
cultivation Of timber, and upon filing SAID aillda
Wit with said register receiver and on payment
of ten dollars, he or she shall thereupon pc per-
mitted to enter the quantity of land speclneu
given or patent issued therefor until the expira-
tlon OF at least ten years from the ua!e OF sucn
entry; and If at the expiration OF such time or at
any time within three years thereafter, the person
making such entry, or if he or she be dead, his or
her heirs or legal representatives, shall prove py
two creditabe witnesses that he, she OF they nave
planted and for not less than ten years nave cul-
tiyated and protected such quantity and charac ef
of timber as aforesaid, they shall receive the pat
| ent for such quarter section of land. ,,..- -,
| SEC. 3: That If at any time after the ming Oh
said affidavit, and prior to the issuing OF the pa
tent for the said land, it shall be proven, after
due notice to the party making such entry anu
| tion of the Register of the land office, that such
person has abandoned or failed to cultivate, pro-
| tect, and keep it in good condition such timber,
them and in that event, said land Shall revert 10
| the United States.
| SEC. 4. That each and every person who, un-
| der the provisions of an act entitled - An act 70
secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public
domain,' approved May twentieth, eighteen
| hundred and siXty-two, or any amendment there
| to, having homestead on said public domain,
| who, at the end of the third year of his or heI
| residence thereon, shall have under cultivation
for two years, acre of timber, the trees there
on not being more than twelve feet apart each
way, and in a good thrifty condition, for eacf
and every sixteen acres of said homestead shall
upon duo proof of said fact by two credible wit
nesses, receive his or her patent for said home
stead
SEC 3. That no land acquired under provl-
sions of this act shall, in any event, become Ii
able to the satisfaction of any debt or debts con-
tracted prior to the issuing of patent therefor.
| SEC. 6. That the Commissioner of the Gene
raj Land Office is hereby required to prepare ant
issue such rules and regulations consistent will
this act as shall be necessary and proper to carry
| its provisions into effect; and that the register
and the receivers of the several land offices shall
be entitled to receive the same compensation fo
any lands entered under the provisions of th
| that they are now entitled to receive when tn
same quantity of land is entered with money
SEC. I. That the fifth section of the act en-
| titled " An act ia addition to an act to punisl
crimes against the United States, and for othe
purposes,' approved March third, eighteel
hundred and fifty-seven, shall extend to al
oaths, aflirmations and atfdavits required or arl
thorized by this act
Approved, March 8, 1873.