New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-29
GENERAL NATURE-NO, los.

approved Mafcn y, 1919.
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
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 fact by not
less than two credible witnesses provided
that only one quarter in any section shall
be thus granted.
SEC. 9. 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 &
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 bel
given or patent issued therefor until thek
expiration of at least ten years froin theE
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 herF
heirs or legal representatives, shall prove
by two credible witnesses that he, she, OF
they have planted and for not less than ten
years have cultivated and protected such
quantity and character of timber as atore.
said, they snail receive the patent for such
quarter section of land
Sec. 3. That if at any time after the filing
of said affidavit, and prior to the issuing Of
the patent for said land it shall be proveL,
after due notice to the party making such
entry and claiming to cultivate such tim
ber to the satisfaction of the register of the
land office, that such person has abandoned
or failed to cultivate, protect, and keep in
good condition such timber, then, and il
that event, said land shall revert to the
United States
SEC. d. That each and every person who
under the provisions of an act entitled "AI
act to secure homesteads to actual settler
on the public domain" approved MAY TWEEN
tieth, eighteen hundred and siXty-two, o
any amendment thereto, having homt,
stead on said public domain, who, at th4
end of the third year of his or her residence
thereon, shall have had under cultivation
for two years, one acre Of timber, the tree
thereon not being more than twelve fee
apart each way, and in good thrifty con
ditiOn, for each and every sixteen acres
said homestead, shall, upon due proof
SAID TACT by two credible witnesses, recein
his or her patent for said homestead
SEC. 5. 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 til
General Land Office is hereby required %
prepare and issue such rules and re2llb
tons, consistent with this act, as shall b,
necessary and proper to carry It's provisions
into effect; and that the registers and tn
receivers OF the several land offices sha
be entitled to receive the same compenab
ton for any lands entered under the pr
visions OF this that they are now entitled
receive when the same quantity of land Il
entered with money.
SEC. z. That the fifth section of the az
entitled: "An act in addition to an act pb
punish crimes against the United Statsk
and for other purposes" approved MARI
third, eighteen hundred and fifty-sevak
shall extend to all oaths, atiirmations al
sfhdaVlts required or authorized by this adj
approved March ), 1873.
lASE'7'Lt iIoN of oENEkAls N ATURE.O-N o., tE
Joint resolution rendering the coppratrE
TONS OF the American people to the peoT
of Spain.
Resolved by the Senate and House
representatives of the United States q
America in Congress assembled, That in tn
name and behalf of the American Deop%
the congratulations of Congress are herebR
rendered to the people of Spain upon theE
recent efforts to consolidate the principlI
OF universal liberty in a republican form 4
government.
That the President of the United Statd
be, and hereby is, requested to transmit tha
resolution to the American minister al
Madrid, with instructions to present -
the Spanish government
Approved March 3, 1873,
GENERAL NATURE-No. 1907
An act to extend the time for filing cain
for additional bounty under the act Q
July twenty eighth, eighteen hundred
and sixty-six.
Be it enacted by the Senate and Hous
of Representatives of the United States
America in Congress assembled, That tb