New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-05-24

tuu bayou. AUdmSDurR ana faetOcla TO
Pine Bluff. From Pine Bluff, via Carson, Rob
Roy, Nav Gascony, Green Back, Cooper's
Landing, Willamette and Sarassa to Arkan-
sas Post. From Watson Station on the Texas,
Mississippi River and Northwestern rail
road, to Red Fork on the Arkansas river
From Bath Station, on the Texas. Missis-
sippi River and Northwestern railroad, to
South Bend on the Arkansas river.
Approved February q, 1874.
GENERAL NATURE-No. AL
An act creating an additional land district
in the Territory OF New Mexico.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That all
that portion of the Territory of New Mexico
Territory shall constitute a separate land
district, to be called the La Messilla land
district the office of which shall be located
at such place in said district as the Presi
dent of the United States may direct,
which may be changed from time to time
as the public interest may require:
SEC. .. That the President shall appoint,
by and with the advice and consent Of the
Seuate. a register and receiver of public
moneys tor said district, and said officers
shall reside in the place where said land
office is located, and they shall have the
same powers, perform the same duties, and
receive the same emOiuments as are or may
be prescribed by law in relation to land
offices Of the United States N other Terri.
tories
Approved March 3, 1874.
GENERAL NATURE-NO. b.
An act to amend the fifteenth section of an
act approved June eighth. eighteen hun
-aI nd ~ r anti ON ar
revise, consolidate and amend the statutes
relating to the Postotfice Department"
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled. That Sec
ton fifteen of the act ito revise, CONSOLE
date and amend the statutes relating to
the Postofice Department" approved June
eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two,
be amended to read as follows:
"SEC. Is. That before entering upon the
duties, and before they shall receive any
sons employed in the postal service, shall
respectively take and subscribe before
some ma gistrate or other competent officer
authorized to administer oaths by the laws
of the United States, or OF any State or Ter
ritory, the following oath or affirm alton:
II, A. B., do solemnly swear Tor affirm,
as the case may be-, that l will faithfully
perform all the duties required of me, and
abstain from everything forbidden by the
laws in relation to the establishment OF
postotfices and post roads within the United
States; and that l will honestly and truly
account tor and pay over any money be-
longing to the said United States which ma y
come into my possession or control ana =
also further swear for affirm) that l Will
support the constitution OF the United
States, go help me Cod
And this oath or affirmation may be
taken before any officer civil or military
holding a commission under the United
States, and such officer is hereby authorized
to administer. and certify such oath OF
affirmation
Approved March 5, 1874.
GENERAL NATURE-No. lei
An act to amend the act entitled ian ac1
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 assem-
bled, That the act entitled IAN ac'
to encourage the growth OF timber on W esq
ern prairies,' approved March third
eighteen hundred and seventy-three
be, and the same is hereby, amended so al
to read as follows: That any person who l:
the head of family, or who has arrived a.
the age of twenty-one years, and Is a GU
zen of the United States, or who shall have
filed his declaration of intention to become
such. as required by the naturalization
laws of the United States, who shall plant
protect, and keep in healthy CROWNS
condition for eight years, forty acres OF tim
ber the trees thereon not being more tnal
twelve feet apart each way, on any quarter
section of any of the public lands OF I'M
United States, or twenty acres on any lega
subdivision of eighty acres, or ten acre
on any legal subdivision OF tort!
acres, or one fourth part OF AM
fractional subdivision of land less thar
forty acres, shall be entitled to patent to-
the whole of said quarter-section. or OF suci
legal ubdivision of eighty or forty acres
or fractional subdivision of less than 1ort1
acres. as the case may be, at the expiration
of said eight years, on making proof OF suci
fact by not less than two credible witnesses
provided that not more than one quarter o
any section shall be thus granted, and tina
no person shall make more than one entr'
under the provisions OF this act, unless frac
t;onaI subdivisions of less than forty acre
are entered which, in the aggregate, shall
not exceed one quarter sectlon.
SEC. ?. That the person applying for tn
benefit of this act shall, upon application 7
tbe register of the land district in which h
or she is about to make such entry, max
AFFIDAVIT before the register. or the re
ceiver. or some officer authorized t
administer oaths in the distric
where the land is situated, who
that said entry is made for the cultivatio
of timber. and upon filing said affidavi
with said register and said receiver, and o
payment of ten dollars, he or she shal
thereupon be permitted to enter the quar-
tity of land specified; and the party mar
ing an entry Of quarter section under On
provisions of this act shall be required
break ten acres of the land covered thereo
the first year, ten acres the second year an
twenty acres the third year after date
entry, and to plant ten acres of timber IN
second year, ten acres the third year, an