New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-30


Approved March 5, 1873.
GENERAL NATURE-No. los.
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 a 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 for the whole OF said
quarter section at the expiration of said ten
years, on making proof of such TACT 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 tho
benefit of this act shall, upon application
to the register of the land office III which he
or she is about to make such entry, mako
affidavit before such register or receiver
that said entry is made for the cultivation of
timber, and upon filing said aft
davit with said register and receiver,
and on payment of ten dollars, he
or she shall thereupon be permitted
to enter the quantity of land specified; pro-
vided, however, that no certificate shall be
given or RdUcnU therefor until Tie
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 or she be dead, his or her
heirs or legal representatives, shall prove
by two credible witnesses that be, she, or
they have planted and for not less than ten
years have cultivated and protected such
quantity and character OF timber as afore-
they ia lat ont FIR aytsi,
quarter section of land.
SEC. j. That il 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, aud keep in
good condition such timber, then, and III
that event, said land shall revert 70 tia
United States
SEC. H. 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 f
tieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, or +
any amendment thereto, having 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 not being more than twelve feet
apart each way, and in good, thrifty con-
dition, for each and every sixteen acres of
SAID homestead, shall, upon due proof of
sad TACT 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 auy event be-
come liable to the satisfaction Of any debt |
or debts contracted prior to the issuing OF
patent therefor.
SEC. &. That the Commissioner OF the
General Land Office is hereby required % T
prepare and issue such rules and rerula-
lions, consistent with this act, as shall bei
necessary and proper to carry its provisionsk
into effect; and that the registers and tbeE
receivers OF the several land Offices shallI
be entitled to receive the same compen "a
ton Tor any lands entered under the pro-
visions OF this that they are now entitled toll
receive when the same quantity Of land isl
entered with money.
SEC. 7. That the fifth section of the actE
entitled: AN act in addition to an act toE
PUNISH crimes against the United States,E
ana Tor other purposes approved MarchE
third, eighteen hundred and tiftv-seven.E
shall extend to all oaths, atfirmations audi
alfidavits required or authorized by this AL
Approved March 3, 1873.
RESOLUTION OF GENERAL NATURE-No.
JOINT resolution rendering the conpratnIa.E
uons OF the American Ieople to the peopleE
of Spain.
Resolved by the Senate and Uonse oft
representatives of the United States oil
America IN Congress assembled, That in theE
name ana behalf of the American people,E
the congratulations of Congress are hereby
rendered to the people of Spain upon their
recent Efforts to consolidate the principles
u universal liberty in republican form Of
government.
That the President of the United States
De- and hereby il, requested to transmit this
resolution to the American minister at
nddrld, with instructions to presen. ITO
The Spanish government.
Approved March 3, 1873.
IGENERAL NATURE-No. 1897 8
An act to extend the time for filing claims
Ior additional bounty under the act Of <
July twenty eighth, eighteen hundred
and sixty six. II
BE 1t enacted by the Senate and Housed
"i Representatives Of the United StateyofN
America IN Congress assembled. That theE
time for filing claims for additional hounty,E
under the act OF July twenty eighth, eight
cen manfred and sixty-six, and wHichE
EXPIRED by limitation January thirtiAth,E
hundred and seventy-tbree. be,E
ana the same is hereby revived and ex-a
fenced until the thirtieth day of JanusrytK
eighteen hundred and seyenty-four: andB
tnao an claims for such bounties fled in theH
proper department after the thirtieth dayk
VI January, eighteen hundred and SEVENTH
three, and before the passage of this act
snan De deemed to have been filed in duf
time, and shall be considered and decided
without filing. 1 o0''N
Approved March 3, 1873.