The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18
TIMBER CULTURE.
Mas. sfRAIT's AMENDING BILL.

WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, Jan. To-
The following is the text of Mr.. Straits bill.
Section / That the first section OF said act be,
and the same Is, amended, to read as follows;
That the act entitled An act to amend the act
entitled an act TO encourage the growth Of tim
Der on the Western pTair1es. approved March
Is, 1874, be and the same Is hereby amended TO
read as follows, That any person who is the
head of a family, or who has arrived at the age
of twenty-one years, and is q citizen of the
United States, or who shall have fled
his declaration Of intention to become
such, as is required by the NATURALIZATION laws of
the United States, who shall plant. project and
keep In q healthy, growing conditton ror eign5
years i've acres OF timber on any legal SUBDIVISION
OF eighty acres, or fractional subdivision or less
than eighty acres, rs the case may be, at the ex-
piration Of sail eight years, on making proof OF.
such fact by not less than two credible witness
es, and a full compliance with the further condi-
tions as provided in Sec. 2 shall receive a
patent for such tract; provided, further,
that no more than one-quarter OF any section
shall be granted, and that no person shall make
more than one entry under the provisions OF this
act.
Sec. 2. That the third section be and the same
Is amended to read as follows: That IL az any
time after the filing of said affidavit or prior to
The issuing Of the patent for said land the claim
ant shall fail TO comply with the requirements
of this act and his timber culture entry shall
have been canceled by reason of such failure or
then and in that event, such land shall be sub
ject to entry by any other person having the
QUALIFICATIONS enumerated In The ursJ section OF
this act, but no part of the land
covered by the relinquished or Cancelled
entry shall be entered or taken by any subse-
auent applicant save under the provisions of
this act only, except upon the order ot the COM
missioner OF the general land office, made upon
proof satisfactory to him that the same is not
adapted to the growth OF timber, and no such
order shall be made until the land included In
such order shall have remained for three years,
Immediately preceding the making thereof va
can't, unappropriated public lands, subject TO
have been entered under the PROFESSIONS of this
net during the meantime, and provided further,
that the register and receiver OF ally local land
Office receiving any ACCOMPLISHMENTS under any
Of the public land lava shall be entitled to a fee
of ST TO be naid by the person making such re-
iinquishment, such fee not TO be reported.
Sec. 8. There shall be added to said act, OF
which this act Is amendatory, the following
sections: Sec. g.. No person shall be entitled
to make more than one entry under the provis-
ions OF this act except upon the order Of : b COM
missioner of the general land offices, and IN cases
only where Ii shall be made to appear TO his sat-
i~sfaction that the entry-man was not legally
entitled to make the fret entry by reason OF q
prior appropriation of the land or public policy
and justice to the claimant require that he should
be relieved from the disability arising from his
having once exercised his rights under this act,
in which case his right to make q new entry
shall be declared.