The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-04-30
Trees ON Western Prairies.

THE following is the text of the new
law relating to the planting of trees on
the Western praries:
AN ACT to amend the act entitled can act to
Encourage the Growth of Timber on West
ern Prairiea -
Be it enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives Of the United States Of America,
in Congress assembled, That the act entitled
can act to encourage the growth Of timber on
Western prairies," approved March 8, 1873,
be, and the same is hereby, amended SO as to
read as follows: That any person who is the
head of family, or who has arrived at the
age of twenty-o years, and is citizen of
the United States, or who shall have filed his
declaration of intention to become such, as
req uired by the Naturalization laws OF the
United States, who shall plant, protect, and
keep in a healthy, growing condition for
eight years forty acres OF timber, the trees
thereon not being more than twelve feet
apart each way, ON any quarter section on any
twenty acres on any legal subdivision Of
eighty acres, or ten acres on any legal subdi-
vision of forty acres, or one-fOurth part OF
any fractional subdivision of land less than
forty acres, shall be entitled to patent for
the whole of said quarter section, or OF such
legal subdivision of eighty or forty acres, or
fractional subdivision Of less than forty acres,
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eight years, on making proof of such fact by
not less than two credible witnesses: Pro-
we,esl, That not more than one. quarter of any
section shall be thus granted; and that no
person shall make more than one entry under
the provisions of this act, unless fractional
subdivisions of less than forty acres are
entered, which, in the aggregate, shall not
exceed one quarter section.
SEC. 2. That the person applying Tor the
benefit of this act shall, upon application to
the Register of the land district in which he or
she is about to make such entry. make aftida-
Wit before the Register, or Receiver, or some
officer authorized to administer oaths in the
district where the land is situated, who is re-
quired by law to use an official seal, that such
and upon filing said affidavit with said Regis
ter and said Receiver, and on payment of $40,
he or she will thereupon be permitted to enter
the quantity of land specified; and the party
making an entry Of quarter section under
the provisions Of this act shall be required to
break ten acres of the land covered thereby
the first year, ten acres the second year, and
twenty acres the third year after the date .s Of
entry, and to plant ten acres OF timber the
second year, ten acres the third year, and
twenty acres the fourth year after date of
entry. A party making an entry Of eighty
acres shall break and plant, at the times
hereinbefore prescribed, one-half Of the
quantity required of the party who enters
quarter section; and a party entering forty
acres shall break and plant, at the times here.
inbefore prescribed, one-quarter of the guam
tity required by party who enters quarter
section, or q propOrtionate quantity for any
smaller fractional subdivision: Provided, how
eyer, That no final certificate shall be given or
patent issued for the land so entered until the
expiration of eight years from the date OF
such entry; and If at the expiration of such
time, or at any time within five years there.
after, the person making such entry, or, II he
or she be dead, his or her heirs or legal repre-.
sentatives, shall prove by two credible wit.
nesses that he or she or they have planted
and, for not less than eight years, have cult
waited a1d protected such quantity ana charac
ter of timber as aforesaid, they shall receive 8
patent for such quarter section or legal sub
division Of eighty or forty acres of land, Of
for any fractional quantity Of less than forty
acres, q herein provided. And in the case o.
the death of person who has complied with
the provisions OF this act for period OF three
years, his heirs or legal Representatives shall
Of this act, and receive, at the expiration Of
eight years, patent for 100 acres, or receive
without delay patent for forty acres, relin
gushing all claim to the remainder.
That q, ut any time after the fling Of SAID
afidavit, and prior to the issuing Of the pat
emit for said land, the claimant shall abandOl
the land, or fail to do the breaking and plant
ing required by this act, or any part thereof
or shall fail to cultivate, protect and keep u
/ good condition such timber, then, and IN thu
event, such land shall be subject 10 entry nm
der tho Homestead laws, or BY some other Per
son under the provisions Of this oct: huetded
That the party making 4c1alm to raid land
either - homestead. settler or under this act
] shall give, ct tho time Of fling his application