Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1878-08-08
Tree Claim Act.

Tree Claim Act.
We have received many requests asking
the publication of the subjoined act OF
the last session amendatory of the previ.
Gus act, and it will be well for those in.
terested to cut it out Of this paper and
preserve 1t for future use:
Be it enacted by the senate and house
of representatives of the United States of
America in congress assembled: That
the act entitled IAN act to amend the act
entitled AN act to encourage. the growth
Of timber on the western prairies,'" ap.
proved March thirteenth, eighteen hun.
dred and seventy four, be and the same is
hereby amended 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 VINO shall have filed his declar-
alton "f intention to become such, as re.
quired by the naturalization laws OF the
United States, who shall plant, protect
and keep in a healthy, growing condition,
for eight years, ten acres of timber, on
any quarter section Of any Of the public
lands of the United States, or five acres
Of any legal subdivision of eighty acres
or two and one half acres on any legal
subdivision of forty acres or less, shall be
entitled to a patent to the whole of said
quarter section, or Of such legal subdivi
sion Of eighty, or forty acres, or fractional
subdivisions of less than 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,
and full compliance of the further con
diti"ns as provided in section two: Pro.
vided further, That not more than one
quarter Of any section shall be thus grant
ed, and that no person shall make more
than one entry under the provisions Of
this act.
Sec. 2. That the person applying for
the benefits of this act shall, upon appli.
cation t. the register of the land district
in which he or she is about to make such
entry. make affidavit, before the register
or receiver, or the clerk of some court Of
record, or officer authorized to administer
oaths in the district where the land is sit
uated which affidavit shall be as follows,
tO-wit:
l. --, having filed my appli.
cation, number -, for an entry under
the provisions Of an act entitled ian act
to amend an act entitled an act to encour
age the growth Of timber on the western
prairies, approved 1877,
do solemnly swear <<or affirm that am
the head Of a family (or twenty one years
of age), and citizen OF the United States,
(or have declared my intention to become
such); that the section Of land specified
in my said application is composed ex
clusive|y of prairie lands, or other lands
devoid Of timber; that this filing and
entry is made for the cultivation of tim.
Der, and tor my own exclusive use and
benefit that l have made the said appli.
cation in good faith, and not for the pur
pose OF speculation, directly or indirectly,
OF for the use or benefit Of any other per.
son whomsoever; that [ intend t. hold
and cultivate the land, and to fully com.
ply with the provisions Of said act; and
that have not heretofore made an entry
under this ac,, or the acts Of which this
is amendatory." And upon filing snch
affidavit with SAID register and said re.
ceiver, and on payment "f ten dollars, if
the tract is more than eighty acres, and
five dollars if it is eighty acres or less, he
or she shall, thereupon, be permitted to
enter the quantity Of land specified: and
the party making an entry Of a quarter
section under the provisions Of this act,
shall he required to break or plow five
acres covered thereby the first year, five
acres the second, and to cultivate tn crop
or otherwise the five acres broken or
plowed the first year; the third year he
or she shall cultivate to crop or otherwise
the five acres broken the second year, and
to plant in timber, seeds, or cuttings, the
remaining five acres. All entries of less
quantity than one.quarter section shall be
planted, plowed, cultivated, and planted
to trees, tree eeed, or cuttings, in the same
manner and in the same proportion as
hereihfore provided for quarter section;
provided. however, that in case such trees,
seeds. or cuttings. shall be destroyed by
grasshoppers, or by extreme and unusual
drouth, for any year, or terms If years,
the time for planting such trees, seeds, or
cuttings shall be extended one year for
every such year that they ere 80 destroy.
ed; provided further, that the person