New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-27
GENERAL NATURE-NO. I05
An act to encourage the growth OF timber
on Western prairies.

GENERAL NATURE-No. l05
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 for ten
year forty acres OF tim Der, 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 a 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 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 ia 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-
vlded, however, that DO certificate shall be
given or patent issued therefor until the
respiration of at least ten years from the
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 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. ). That II at any time after the filing
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 il
good condition such timber, then, and in
that event, said land shall revert 20 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 May tweno
tleth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, or
any amendment thereto, having home
stead on said public domain, who at tho
end of the third year of his or her residence
thereon, shall have had under cultivation,
tor two years, one acre Of timber, the trees
thereon not being more than twelve feet
apart each way, and in q good, thrifty cons
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. >. 1 hat no land acquired under prcs
visions OF this act shall, in any event, bee
come liable to the satisfaction of any debt
or debts contracted prior to the issuing Of
pateut therefore
SEc. 6. That the Commissioner % tha
General Land Oficefs hereby required to
prepare ana issue such rules and regulas
tons, consistent with this act, as shall be-
necessary aud proper to carry its provisions
INTO effect: and that the registers and the
receivers OF the several land offices shall
De entitled TO receive the same compensas
ton for any lands entered under the pro-
visions OF this that they are now entitled to
receive when the same quantity Of land ID
entered with money.
sec. Z. That the fifth section of the acl
enttled: AN act in addition to an act To
punish crimes against the United States.
and for other purposes" approved Marcel
third, eighteen hundred and ffty-seven.
shall extend to all oaths, atfirmatiOns and
afildavits required or authorized by this act.
Approved March 3, 1873.
lREsoLUT1oN or GENERAL NArURE-No. 80
Joint resolution rendering the congratulas
uons OF the American people to the peorls
of Spain.
Resolved bye the Senate and House q
representatives of the United States oS
America IN Congress assembled, That in tho
name and behalf of the American people.
the coz gratulatiOns of Congress are hereb{s
rendered to the people of Spain upon thefs
recent ehorts to consolidate the principles
OF universal liberty. in q republican form a,
government.
That the President OF the United States
De. ana hereby Il. requested to transmit this
l. 1SoiutioH 20 the American minister ~
: tia W!th Instructions to presene SO
AvproysI March g. 1877.
IGENERAs NATURs-So, e09.S
~, act to extend the time for film. csastps
!or additional bounty undee the act %
oniS .twenty-eighths, eighteen hundred
BE it enacted by the Senate and House
cs Representatives of the United States OK
America in Congress assembled, That tbs
Tune Tor fliny claims for additional bonntvs
under the ac.of July twenty eighth. eight.
cen hundred and sixty-siy. and which
EXPIRED hS hmltation January thirtieths
eighteeh hundred and seventy-three, be.
anu anu Inc same p hereby revived and exc
oehueu uhtii The thlrtieth day of January,
that all claims for such bounties filed in the
proper department after the thirtieth Sav
.u January, eighteen hundred and seven ty,
three, and before the passape of tb;s ac.
shall be deemed to have been filed in duo
time, and shall be Considered and decided
without filing. >0''~NN
Approved March 2 1879