Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-05-01
1I4KBER LANDS IN TIE TER
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Territorial Delegates:
4 BILL for the sale of timber lands il
the Territories.
Be 1t enccted by the Senate ana House o
i Representatives Of the United State
, Of America IN Congress assembled
That surveyed public lands of the Uni
ted States within the Territories, moi
included within military, Indian, o.
other reservations Of the United States
valuable for timber but unfit for cult
vatiOn, may be sOld .U'citizens of tht
United States, or persons who have
declared theirintentiOn to become such
in quantities not exceeding forty acres
to any one person or association Of per
sons, at the price of two dollars and
fifty cents an acre; and lands valuable
chiefly for stone may be sold Oh the
same terms as timber lands: P,ocided
That nothing herein contained shall
defeat or impair any bona-t -tde claim
under any law of the United States, OF
authorize the sale of any mining claim,
or the improvements of any bona -fiGc
settler, or lands containing gold, silver,
cinnabar, copper. or coal, in quantities
sufficient to render mining remunera-
tive or lands set apart for school pur-
poses under the acts Of Congress Gre
atiDg said Territories: And pr0uided
further, That mono Of the rights con-
tefred by the act approved July twenty
sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty six,
entitled "An act granting the right of
way to ditch and canal owners over
the public lands, and for other pur-
pOses," 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 sub
ject to any vested and accrued water
rights or rights to bitches and reser-
vOirs used in connection with such
water-rigltsas may have been acquired
under or recognized by said act, and
such rights shall be expressly reserved
in any patent 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, dies
ignating by legal subdivisions the par
ticular tract of land he desires to pur-
chase, setting forth that the same is
unfit for cultivation, and valuable
chiefly for its timber or stone; that it
is uninhab;ted; contains 10 mining or
other improvements except for ditch or
canal purposes, save such as were
made by or belong to the applicant,
nor, as delOnent verify believes, any
valuable daposi of gold, silver, CHINA
bar, copper, or coal; that deponent
has made no other application under
this act; that he does not apply to
purchase the same OH speculation, but
III good faith, to appropriate it to his
own exclusive use and benefit; and
that he has not, directly or indirectly,
made any agreement or contract iii any
way or manner with any person or per
sons whatsoever by which the title
which he might acquire from the Gov
ernment of the United States should
inure, in whole or in part, to the bene-
fit Of any person except himself; which
statement must be verified by the oath
of the applicant before the register or |
receiver of the land Office within the |
or before the auditor or clerk |
Of the district court of the county i'll
which the land is situated; and 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 lands,
and all right aud title to the same;
and any grant of conveyance which he
may have made, except in the hands
# bona -tide purchasers, shall be null
and void.
SECTION 3. That upon the filing of
said statement, as provided in the Sec
ond section of this act, the register Of
Jhe land Office shall post notice Of
such application, embracing q descrip-
ion of the land by legal subdivisions,
N his Office for period of sixty days,
and shall furnish the applicant a copy
If the same for publication in news
paper published nearest the location
If the premises, for d like period of
,ime; and after the expiration of said
Iixty days, if no adverse claim shall
rave been filed, the person desiring to
purchase shall furnish to the register
# the land Office satisfactory evidence,
irst, that said notice of the applica-
ion prepared by the register as af0re-
aid was daily published in newspa-
,er as herein required; sec )ndly, that
he land is of the character cOntem-
dated in this act, unOccupied and
Without Improvements, other than
hose excepted, either mining or agri-
cultural, and that it apparently con-
aims no valuable deposits Of gold, sill
1er, cinnabar, copper, or coal; and 4
lpon payment to the proper officer IF
he purchase-money Of said land, to
.ether with the fees of the register
md receiver, the applicant shall be
to ent:r- said tract, and, on
he transmission 0Dthe General Land
Office of the papers and testimony in
he case, . patent shall issue thereon:
ptOUidsa, That any person having .
1alld claim to any portion Of the land
nay object, in writing, to the issuance