Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-18
Some of the Provisions of the PROPOSED d
New Land Law.

Some OF the Provisions of the Proposed d
New Land Law.
Copyright. 1855, by the California associated Press
WASHINGTON, February 17th.-The Com
mittee on Public Lands, of the House, has
| practically settled upon the bill which it
will offer to the House in lieu of the pres
ent land laws. They have made some
changes in the bill as reported by the SUBJ
committee. The bill has been reduced in
size slightly but some amendments sug-
gested by several members of the commit
tee, and already printed, have been with
held. Thus, in section six-which pro-
vides for the removal of timber where pur-
chased from public Landslide time of re-
| moval is still limited to six years, but
provision has been added which guarantees
| TO the purchaser that the timber and the
right of removal, while subject to the di-
| rections of the Secretary OF the Interior,
shall be deemed personal property for all
purposes. In a proviso to the same Act,
however clause is inserted as follows /:
But no person, company or corporation
shall purchase or hold in any State or Ter
ritory greater quantity of such timber
| than the amount of timber on four Sec
| tons of land"
In Section a provision is also inserted
| cutting out the clause fixing the minimum
acre. This change is made in Difference TO
| the advice of the Secretary of the Interior.
Section IL, which provided that all lands
reserved for military or other special pur-
poses, and all isolated and detached por-
tions of the public domain, shall be dis
posed of under the provisions of general
law specially applicable thereto, is changed
| to read that all isolated and disconnected
tracts of the public domain, less than 100
acres, may be ordered sold at private sale,
for not less than 81 25 per acre, by the Sec
retary of the Interior, when in his judg-
| ment it shall be proper to do so. All lands
reserved for military or other special pur-
poses shall be disposed of under the pro-
visions of law specially applicable thereto" :"
Section u. providing that lands unfit for
cultivation without irrigation, or destitute
of timber of a commercial value, shall be
classified as desert lands, has been so
changed that it reads: Except mineral
lands and reserved lands, all lands unfit for
cultivation" etc.
Section IL, which amends the Act for the
sale of desert lands is made generally
applicable to all the States and Territories.
Upon the suggestion of the Secretary of
the Interior, the law in reference to desert
lands is changed so as to make the limit in
which a person may begin his work Tor
irrigation) three years, instead of five.
The payment required therefor is fixed at
p cents per acre, to be paid when the
declaration is filed.
The following provision is also made ::
But no patent shall be issued for such land,
unless within one year after the expiration
of said three years the person making such
entry (or, in case of his DEATH his widow,
or heirs, or devisees, or in case of the
widow making such entry, then her heirs,
or devisees) shall prove by two household
ers that he, she or they have resided on the
same for three years continually succeeding
the time of entry, and that he, she or they
have actually, by irrigation, made the land
productive.