Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-01-31

ACT IN RELATION TO TIMBER tANDs,

ACT IN RELATION TO TIMBER LANDS
A bill for the sale Of timber-iands In the
States Of California and Oregon and WASH
ingtOn Territory.
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives Of the United States Of
america in Congress assembled, That
surveyed public lands of the United
States within the States of Califor-
MIA and Oregon and Washington Ter
ritory, not included within military,
Indian, or other reservations of the
United States, valuable for timber but
unfit for cultivation, may be sold to
citizens of the United States, or persons
who have declared their intentions to
become such, in quantities not exceed
ing six hundred and forty acres to any
one person or association of persons, at
the minimum price of two dollars and
fifty cents per acre; and lands valuable
chiefly for stone may he sold on the
same terms rs timber-lands: Prorided,
That nothing herein contained shall de-
feat or impair any bona-fde claim under
any law of the United States, or au-
thorize the sale of any mining claim, or
the improvements of any bona-fide set
tier; or lands containing gold, silver,
cinnabar, copper, or coal, in quantities
sufficient to render mining remunera-
tive; or lands selected by the said States
under any law Of the United States do
mating lands for internal improvements,
education, or other purposes: And pro-
rided further, That none of the rights
conferred by the act approved July
twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and
sixty six, entitled can act granting the
right of way to ditch and canal owners
over the public lands, and for other
purposes" shall be abrogated by this
act, and the same are hereby extended
to all public lands affected by this act;
and all patents granted shall be subject
to any vested and accrued water-rights,
or rights to bitches and reservoirs used
in connection with such water-rights,
as may have been acquired under or
recognized by said act, and such rights
shall be expressly reserved in any pa
tent issued under this act.
SEC. 2. That any person desiring to
avail himself of the provisions of this
act shall file with the register of the
proper district written statement in
duplicate, one of which is to be trans
mitted to the General Land Office, des-
ignating by legal subdivisions the par
ticular tract of land he desires to pur-
chase, setting forth that the same is un-
fit for cultivation, and valuable chiefly
for its timber or stone; that it is unin-
habited; contains no mining or other
improvements, except for ditch or canal
purposes, save such as were made by
or belong to the applicant, nor, as de-
ponent verify belives, any valuable de-
posit of gold, silver, cinnabar, copper,
or coal; that deponent has made no
other application under this act; that he
does not apply to purchase the same on
speculation, but in good faith to appro-
pirate it to his own exclusive use and
benefit; and that he has not directly Or
indirectly, made any agreement or con-
tract, in any way or manner, with any
person or persons whatsoever, by which
the title which he might acquire from
the Government of the United States
should inure, in whole or in part, to the
benefit of any person except himself;
which statement must be verified by the
oath of the applicant. before the register
or the receiver of the land-office, within
the district where the land is situated; !;
andi if any person taking such oath shall
swear falsely in the premises, he shall
be subject to all the pains and penalties
of perjury, and shall forfeit the money
which he may have paid for said land,
and all right and title to the same; and
any grant or conveyance which he may
have made, except in the hands of bon
tide purchasers, shall be null and void:
Sec. 8. That upon the filing of
said statement, as provided in the Sc
cond section of this act, the register of
the land-office shall post notice of
such application, embracing descrip-
ton of the land by legal subdivisions,
in his Office, for period of sixty days,
and shall furnish the applicant copy
of the same, for publication in q news
paper published nearest the location of
the premises, for like period of time;
and after the expiration of said sixty
days, If no adverse claim shall have
been filed. the persons desiring to pur-
chase shall furnish to the register OF the
lard-ofice satisfactory evidence, first;
that said notice of the application pre-
pared by the register as aforesaid was
duly published in newspaper as herein
required, secondlyj that the land Is OF
the character contemplated in this act,
unoccupied and without Improvements,
other than those excepted, either min
ing or agricultural, and that it apparent
ly contains. no valuable deposits OF gold,
silver, cinnabar, copper or coal; and
upon payment to the proper officer OF
the purchase-money of said land, to-
gether with the fees of the register and
the receiver, the applicant may be per-
mitted to enter said tract, and. on the
transmission to the General Land-Of-
fee of the papers and testimony in tae