Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1886-02-25


house of repr esentatives, a bill to restore
to the public domain certain lands upon
which the costs of survey shall not be
paid. 1t provides that before any land
granted by congress to any state or cor
poratlon to aid in the construction of any
railroad or other work of internal i'm
provcment, shall be conveyed to the COM
pany or party entitled thereto, the cost
of surveying, selecting and conveying the
same shall first he paid into the treasury
of the United States for the prosecution
OF the survey of public lands along the
line of said road. And the railway COM
panies or parties entitled to lands under
any of said acts, their successors and as
signs, shall, within ninety days from the
passage of this act, as to all land survey
ed, plats of which are then in the proper
district land offices, or within sixty days
from the date OF receiving notice in writ
ing, served upon any officer or agent Of
any company interested, of the receipt at
the respective district land Offices of the
approved plat or plats, not filed At the
date of the passage of this act, of town.
ships embracing lands within the estab
lished limits of the grant or grants, make
and file in the said district land Office, un-
DER existing regulations, or regulations to
be made by the secretary of the Interior,
their lists of selections of the land claimed
by them under their respective grants in
each township named in said notice, and
shall deposit Herewith in such district
land office, or the treasury of the United
States, as the secretary of the interior
may designate, the cost of surveying, Sc
lecting, and conveying the same, to the
amount for each township as shall be
found due by the secretary of the Inter-
ior. That in the event of the failure of
said companies, or parties, or either of
them, to pay the cost of surveying, select
ing, and conveying such land within the
time prescribed by this act, then the sec
retary of the interior shall immediately
notify the president or treasurer or other
officer of said company or companies of
the amount of land which it or they are
entitled to patent in each township sew
orally, and the amount of the cost of sur
veying selecting, and conveying the same,
and that he is ready to deliver to the
company or companies, it or their success
sors or assigns, patents for all SAID tracts
or parcels of land, upon the payment of
such costs; and if such company or COM
panies or parties interested shall not,
within sixty days after the receipt of said
notice, pay such costs 80 found due, then
the right of said company, or any party
claiming by, through, or under 1t, shall
cease and be determined as to all the
lands within tie townships named in said
notice, and claimed or to be claimed by it
or them; and said land, so discharged OF
any and all claim, shall be restored to the
public domain, for settlement under the
homestead laws. Provisions are made
for refunding any amounts paid in excess
of the time amount, and for recovering,
by suit, and deficl lency when the amount
deposited is found to be too small, saving
to any purchaser the right to pay the
costs attaching to the land he claims.
The secretary of the interior IS also au-
thorized, upon the payment of all costs,
to issue proper patents