Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-06-21
Yps Sugeles Atrald.
TIE NEW TIMBER LAW.
Sales in the States Of oalifornia, Oregon Ne
vada and Washington Territory.

Annexed Is q certiueu copy vi uh
Act for the sale of timber land in
he States of California, Oregon,
Nevada and in Washington Ter
iltory. This is an advance copy
lsceived by United States Attorney
John M. Ceghlan, who has furnish
I'd It for publication:
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives of the
United States Of America In Con-
gress assembled, That surveyed
public lands Of the United States
within the States of California,
Oregon and Nevada and In Wash.
ington Territory, not included
within military, Indian or other
reservations of the United States,
valuable chiefly for timber, but un-
at for cultivation, and which have
not been offered at public sale ac-
cording to law, may be sold to citi-
sens Of the United States, or per.
cons who have declared their in
tention to become such, in quaint.
ties not exceeding one hundred and
sixty acres to any one person or as
ISOLATION Of persons, at the mini
mum price OF two dollars and fifty
cents per acre; and lands
valuable chiefly for stone
may be sold on the same
terms as timber lands: Provided,
That nothing herein contained
shall defeat or impair any bonafide
claim under any law of the United
States, or authorize the sale OF any
mining claim, or the improvements
OF any bona-fide settler, or lands
containing gold, silver, cinnabar,
copper, or coal, or lands selected by
the said States under any law of
the United States donating lands
for Internal improvements, educa-
tlon, or other purposes: And pro.
vided further, That none Of the
rights conferred by the act approved
July twenty-six, eighteen hundred
and sixty.six, entitled "An act
granting the right OF way to ditch
and canal owners over the public
lands, and for other purposes
shall be abridged by this act; and
all patents granted shall be subject
any vested and accrued wateI
rights, or rights to bitches and res
ervoirs used in connection will
such water rights, as may hav'
been acquired under and by tbt
provisions Of said act; and sucl
rights shall be expressly reserved
in any patent issued under this act
SEC. 2. That any person desir
ing to avail himself of the pfo
visions of this act shall file with th,
register of the proper district ,
written statement in duplicate, on
of which is to be transmitted to th,
general land Office, designating b,
legal subdivisions the particular
tract of land he desires to purchase
setting forth that the same is unfi
for cultivation, and valuable chief
ly for its timber or stone; that it il
uninhabited; contains no minini
or other improvements, ex
cept for ditch or canal purposes
where any such do exist, save sucl
as were made by or belong to th
applicant, nor, as deponent veril,
believes, any valuable deposit o
gold, silver, cinnabar, copper o
coal; that deponent has made III
other application under this act
that he does not apply to purchas
the same on speculation, but il
gOUu rafth to appropriate it to hi
own exclusive use and benefit; an,
that he has not, directly or indi
rectly; made any agreement or con
tract, in any way or manner, will
any person or persons whatsoever
by which the title which he nigh
acquire from the Government o
the United States should inure, il
whole or in part, to the benefit O
any person except himself
which statement must be verifie,
by the oath of the applicant befor
the register or the receiver of tn
land Office within the district wher
the land is situated; and if any per
son taking such oath shall swea
falsely In the premises, he shall b.
subject to all the pains and penal
ties of perjury, and shall for
felt the money which he may hav
paid for said lands, and all tn
tight and title to the same; an,
any grant or conveyance which b,
may have made, except the land
of bona-fide purchasers, shall b.
null and void.
SEC. 3. That upon the filing O
said statement, as provided in tht
second section of this act, the reg
lister of land-office, shall post 8
notice of such application, EN- brac
ing description of the land by
legal subdisions, In his office, for o
period Of sixty days, and shall fur
nish the applicant copy of the
same for publication, at the expense
of such applicant, in a newspaper
published nearest the location oil
the premises for like period OF
time; and after the expiration OF
said sixty days, if no adverse claim
shall have been filed, the person
desiring to purchase shall furnish
to the register Of the land-office,
first, that said notice of the applica.
tion prepared by the register as
aforesaid was duly published in a
newspaper as herein required; sec
ondly, that the land is of the char
acter contemplated in this act, un-
occupied and without IMPROVEMENTS
other than those excepted, either
mining or agricultural, and that it
apparently contains no valuable
deposits Of gold, silver, cinnabar,
copper or coal; and upon payment
to the proper officer of the pur-
chase money of said land, to-
gether with the fees of
the register and the re-
ceiver, as provided for in case of
mining claims in the twelfth Sec
tion Of the act approved May tenth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-lwo,
the applicant may be permitted to
enter said tract, and on the trans
mission to the General Land Office
Of the papers and testimony in the
case, q patent shall issue thereon:
Provided, That any person having