McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-26
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INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.

THANKS to the courtesy of Senate,
Henderson, we are in receipt of a copy
Of the bill H. II. 1904, sTo repeal all
laws providing for the presumption OF
the public lands and the laws allowing
entries for timber culture, as it passed
the senate. The senate made some
amendments which will be probably con-
CURED in or arranged by committee Of
conference, and it will doubtless become
a law substantially as it stands before
the adjournment.
Section ! repeats the various sections
of the revised statutes permitting the
entry of public lands by pre-emptors,
with proviSo that it shall not affect
any valid rights heretofore acquired or
accruing under said laws, but all bona
fde claims lawfully initiated before the
LIST of July of this year may be perfect
ed. Another proviso permits all per-
sons who have not availed themselves of
the privileges of the presumption laws
to make second homestead entry in
lieu of the privilege repealed.
Section 2 repeats the timber culture
laws and has similar proviso that the
repeal shall not affect bona tide claims
lawfully initiated before 1st of July next.
Section 3 amends section 2301 50 that
Nothing in this chapter shall be so
construed as to prevent any person who
has availed himself of the benefits of
section 2269 from paving the minimum
price for the quantity of land so enter
ed at any time after the expiration Of
thirty calendar months from the date Of
such entry and before the expiration of
FIVE years, and obtaining patent there
for from the government as in other
cases directed by law on making proof
Of settlement and cultivation as provid-
ed by the law heretofore in force grant
ing presumption rights"
Section 4 repeats an act to provide
for the sale of desert lands in certain
states and territories, approved March
3, 1877, with the usual proviso that it
shall not affect the valid rights accrued
or accruing under said law. or bona fide
claims lawfully initiated before the lst
of July next.
Section 5 provides that henceforth no
public lands shall be sold at public sale
or be subject to private entry except
abandoned military or other reservations
or lands of a special nature, the sale of
which at public auction has heretofore
been authorized.
Section 6 amends the statutes so as
to permit the settler on public lands,
whether -emptor or homesteader, to
transfer by warranty any portion of his
claim for church, cemetery or school
purposes, or for the right of way to rail
roads, and such transfer shall not vitiate
his claim to perfect his title.
Section s is very important enact
ment and reads as follows:
Sec. 8. That wherever lands have
been withdrawn from sale or disposition
on the part of the United States by rea,
son of grants made to aid in construc
ton of railroads or other works of in
ternal imrrovement, and such with
drawals have been terminated by act of
congress, executive ORDER or order of
the land department, or where lands
have been by operation of law reduced
in price to one dollar and twenty-five
cents per acre, and said lands have been
purchased in good faith at said price,
or entered with warrants or scrip, and
the officers of the land department have
issued certificates or patents thereon in
accordance with such purchase or entry,
without such lands having first been
proclaimed by the President and offered
at public auction, and where, on the
twenty-ffth day of January, eighteen
hundred and eighty-fve, there were no
valid conflicting claims thereto or settle
ments thereon, all such entries, and the
certificates and patents issued thereon,
are hereby confirmed and declared valid
and legal and all questions relating to
such conflicting claims or settlements
shall be subject to adjudication and final
decision in the department of the inter-
Tor and the proper judicial courts; and
in case there is any actual settlement on
any of such lands, in good faith, under
the homestead and pre- emption laws of
the United States, made prior to Janu-
ary 25, 1855. the rights Of such settler
shall prevail against any previous entry
at the price of one dollar and twenty
ave cents per acre