The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-01-08
Our State Legislature convened on
New Timber Claim Bill.
Majority on joint ballot.

Il Bill 10 an.cna tie act entitled Tin
act to encourage the gruuth Of timber
on resteru pruiries"
The following bill has been intro
ducel, IN the House OF Representa-
tives. By MS. Dunnell. 1t may be
changed or modified somewhat before
6nal passage.
BE it enacted by the Senate and
Honse Of Representatives oi the Cclted
States Of America in Congress assem-
bled. That the act entitled An act to
encourage the growth Of timber on vest
ern prairies,' approved March third,
eighteen hundred and seventy-three,
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.
one years, and is citizen of the United
States, or who shall have filed his dec
laration of intention to become such, as
required by the naturalizatiol l-laws of
the United States, wiiu shall psaut,
protect, and keep in ehalthy growing
condition Tor eight years, forty acres
of timter, the trees thereon not being
more hau twelve feet apart each way,
on any quarter-section Of any of the
public lands Of the United States. or
twenty acres on ary legal subdivision
of eighty acres, or ten acres on any
legal subdivision Of forty acres, shall
be entitled to patent for the whole
OF said quarter.section, Or of such legal
subdivision of eighty or forty acres, as
the case may be, at the expiration OF
said eight years, on making proof of
such fact BY not less than two credible
witnesses Procided, That not more
than one quarter OF any section shall
be thus granted. aud that no person
shall make more than one entry unde :
the provisions of this act"
SEC. 2. That the person applying
for the benefit OF this act shall, upon
application to the register Of the land
district in which he or she is about to
make entry, make affidavit before the
register, or the receiver. or some officer
authorized to administer oaths in the
district where the land is situated, that
said entry is made for the cultivation
OF timber, and upon fling said affidavit
with said register and said receiver
and on payment of ten dollars, he or
she shall thereupon be permitted to
euter the quantity Of land specified /;
and the party making an entry Of u
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,
aud twenty acres the third year after
date 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 aud plant, At the times
he-einbetore prescribed, one-half Of
the quantity required Of a party who
enters aquarter-section, and a party
entering forty acres shall break and
plant, at the times hereinbefore pre-.
scribed, one-quarter Of the quantity re.
quired of q party who enters quarter
section: Provided, hosoever, That nc
fual certificate shall be given or pat
ent issued for the iand SO entered un.
til the expiration Of eight years from
the date Of such entry; aud. II at the
expiration Of such time, or at any time
within three years thereafter, the per.
son making such entry, or, if he or she
be dead, his or her heirs or legal rep
resentatives shall prove, by two credi.
bic witnesses. that he, or she, or they
have planted, and. for not less than ten
years. have cultivated and protected,