New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-22

tery of the United States free of cost, and
their graves shall receive the same care
and attention as the graves Of those al
ready buried. The production of the hon
authority for the superintendent Of the
cemetery to permit the interment.
Approved March 3, 1873.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 1861
An act to encourage the growth of timber
on Western prairies.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States Of
America in Congress assembled, That any
person who shall plant, protect and keep
in healthy growing condition tor ten
year, forty acres of timber, the trees there
on not being more than twelve feet apart
each way, on any quarter section OF any OF
the public lands Of the United States, shall
be entitled to d patent for the whole of said
quarter section at the expiration of said ten
years, Oh making proof of such fact by not
less than two credible witnesses; provided,
that only one quarter in any section shall
be thus granted.
SEC. ,. That the person applying for the
benefit Of this act shall, upon application
to the register of the land office in which he
or she is about to make such entry, make
affidavit before such register or receiver
that said entry is made for the cultivation of
timber. and upon filing said atii-
davit with said register and receiver.
and on payment OF ten dollars, he
or che shall thereupon be permitted
to enter the quantity of land specified: pro-
vided, however, that no certificate shall be
given or patent issued 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 thereafter, the person making such
entry, or if he OF she be dead, his or her
heirs or legal representatives, shall prove
by two credible witnesses that he, she, or
they have planted and for not less than ten
years have cultivated and protected such
quantity and character OF timber as afOre-
said, they shall receive the patent for such
quarter section Of land.
SEC. 3. That if at any time after the fling
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 tim
Der, to the satisfaction of the register Of the
land office, that such person has abandoned
or failed to cultivate, protect. and keep in
good condition such timber, then, and in
that event, said land shall revert to the
United States
SEC. 4. That each and every person who,
under the provisions Of an act entitled IAN
act to secure homesteads to actual settlers
on the public domain" approved May TWEEN
tieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, or
any amendment thereto, having a home
stead on said public domain, who, at the
end of the third year of his or her residence
thereon, shall have had under cultivation,
for two years, one acre Of timber, the trees
thereon rot being more than twelve feet
apart each way, and in a 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 pro-
visions Of this act shall, in any event, be-
come liable to the satisfaction of any debt
or debts contracted prior to the issuing of
patent therefor.
Sec. 6. That the Commissioner of the
General Land Office is hereby required TO
prepare and issue such rules and regula-
tons, consistent with this act, as shall be
necessary and proper to carry its provisions
into effect: and that the registers and the
receivers of the several land offices shall
be entitled to receive the same compensa-
ton for any lands entered under the pro-
visions OF this that they are now entitled to
receive when the same quantity Of land is
entered with money.
SEC. 7. That the fifth section of the act
entitled: AN act in addition to an act to
punish crimes against the United States.
and for other purposes" approved March
third, eighteen hundred and tifty-seven,
shall extend to all oaths, affrmatiOns and
Affidavits required OF authorized bv this act.
Approved March 3. 1873.
RESOLUTION OF GENERAL NArtRE-No. 81
Joint resolution rendering the congratula-
tons of the American people to the people
OF Spain.
Resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America III Congress assem- bled, That in the
name and behalf Of the American people.
the congratulations of Congress are hereby
rendered to the people of Spain upon their
recent efforts to consolidate the principles
Of universal liberty in a republican form Of
government.
That the President of the United States
be, and hereby is, requested to transmit this
resolution to the American minister al
Madrid, with instructions to present it to
the Spanish government.
Approved March 3 1873.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 1O9.l
An act to extend the time for filing claims
Tor additional bounty under the act of
July twenty eighth. eighteen hundred
and sixty-six.
BE 1t enacted By the Senate and House
OF Representatives of the United States of
America IN Congress assembled, That the
.iIne lor ming CLAIMS for additional bounty,
under the act Of July twenty -eighth. eight
cen hundred and sixtysix. and ri
expired Dy limitation January thirtietb
eighteen hundred and seventy.three. he
and the same is hereby revived and eY
tended until the thirtieth day of January
eighteen hundred and seventy-four: AMI
that an claims for such bounties filed in the
proper department after the THIRTEEN Sav
Ola 81 January a eighteen hundred and seventy,
.hree, and before the passage Of this act.
s snan oe aeemed to have been fled in due
without fling. '~ "e0i0eu
Approved March 1879 ..