New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-03

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cemetery to permit the nterment.
Approved March 3, 1873.
| GENERAL NATURE-NO. I05
| An act to encourage the growth OF timber
on Western prairies.
BE 1t 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
Ia healthy growing condition for ten
years 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 patent tor the whole of said
quarter 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 i'll 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 aft
davlt with said register and receiver,
and on payment OF ten dollars. he
or she shall thereupon be permitted
20 enter the quantity of land specified: pro-
Vlded, however, that no certificate shah be
gwen or patent issued therefor until the
expiration of at least ten wears from the
date o. such entry; and if at the expiration
OF such time, or at any time within three
years thereafter, the person ualiiDg such
entry, or II he or she be dead, his or her
heirs or legal representatives, shal! prove
by two credible witnesses that he she. or
they have planted and fer not less than ten
wears have cultivated and protected such
quantity and character of timber s. atore-
said, they shall receive the patent soy such
quarter section of land
SEC. ). That il at any time after .he 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 tailed to cultivate, protect, and keep in
good condition such timber, then, and in
that event, said land Shall revr.. 70 the
United States
SEC. 4. That each and every person who,
under the provisions of an act entitled AN
act to secure homesteads to actual settlers
on the public domain" approved Nav TWEEN
teth, eighteen hundred and siXtv-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 re sidenco
Tor two years, one acre Of timber, the trees
thereon not being more than twelve feet
apart each way, and in Il good, thrifty con-
dltlon, Tor 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 D. 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. d. That the Commissioner of the
ieneral Land Office is hereby REQUIRED 20
prepare and issue such rules and regula-
Tons, consistent with this act, as shall be
necessary and proper to carry its provisions
nto effect; and that the registers and the
receivers of the several land Offices shall
ne entitled to receive the same compensa-
ion for any lands entered under the pro-
'lsloDs OF this that they are now entitled to
'ecelVe when the same quantity OF land is
inferred with money.
SEC. 7. That the fifth section of the act
Untitled: AN act in addition to an act to
punish crimes against the United States,
md Tor other purposes approved March
bird, eighteen hundred and tifty-seyep
hall extend to all Oaths, attirmations and
tiidavits required or authorized by this act.
Approved March 3, 1873.
RESOLUTION OF GENERAL NATURE-No. 81
ONT resolution rendering the concratula-
tions OF the American people to the peopIe
ii Spain.
Resolved by the Senate and House OF
representatives of the United States of
AMERICA III Congress assembled, That inthe
anne and behalf of the American people
40 congratulations Of Congress are hereby
endered TO the people of Spain upon their
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universal liberty in a republican form OF
overnment.
That the President of the United States
e, and hereby il, requested to transmit this
solution to the American minister a,
adTld' WIN Instructions to present it tq
10 spanish government.
approved March 8, 1873.
lGENERAL NATURE-No. lO2.1
n act to extend the time for fling claims
Tor additional bounty under the act OF
July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred
and sixty six.
BE 1t enacted by the Senate and Iouse
Representatives. of the United States OF
merlca IN Congress assembled, Tia, tho
me Tor hing claims for additional bounty,
lder the act OF July twenty-eighth, eight
n hundred and sixty-six, and w6lch
-pired by limitation January fbirtietb,
sateen hundred and seventy-three, be,
10 the same is hereby revived and ex-
nded until the thirtieth day OF January,
shteen hundred and seventy four; and
at all claims for such bounties fled in the
oper department after the thirtieth day
January, eighteen hundred and seventy
all be deemed to have been fled in duo
ne, and shall be considered and decided .
thout filing.
approved March 3, 1879.