, 1890-09-13
RESERVOIR SITES.
An Important Circular From the
General Land Office.
Nearly Everything Outside is Once
more Open TO Entry.
No One Can Acquire More Than
800 Acres of Land.

The following circular, signed by Com
missioner Lewis a. Croft, was received at
the Cheyenne land office yesterday:
l am directed by the honorable secre-
tsry Of the interior, by letter of Sept. 4,
1890, to Gail your attention to the attached
copy Of that portion of the act of con
Rress approved Aug. 30, 1890, which re-
pehls so much Of the act of Oct. 2, 1888,
US Stat. 256l as withdraws the lands in
the arid regions of the United States from
entry, occupation and settlement, with
the exception hat reservoir sites hereto
fore located or selected shall remain seq
regated and reserved from entry or settle
ment until otherwise provided by law, and
reservoir sites hereafter selected or located
on public lands shall in like manner be
reserved from the date of the location or
selection. The circulars OF this office of
the date OF Aug. 5, 1889, and Aug. 9,
1890, are hereby resinded.
Entries validated by this act will be
acted upon in regular order, and all pat
ents issued on entries made subsequent
to this act and on entries SO validated,
west of the one-hundreth meridian, will
contain a clause reserving the rights of
way for bitches and canals constructed by
authority of the United States.
Your particular attention is called to
that portion of the law which restricts
the requirement Of title under the land
laws to 800 acres in the aggregate.
You will require from all applicants to
file or enter under any of the land laws
of the United States an affidavit showing
that since Aug. 80, 1890. they had not
filed upon or entered under said laws a
quantity of land which would make, with
the land applied for. more than 800 acres.
Or, provided tn party should claim by
virtue OF the exception as to settlers prior
to the act of Aug. 30. 1890, you will re-
quire an affidavit establishing the fact.
This is the law to which the commits
sioner refers:
For topographic surveys in various por-
tons OF the United States, 1926, 900, one
half of which sum shall be expended west
of the one hundredth meridian; and so
much OF the act of October 2, 1888, en-
titled An act making appropriations for
sundry civil expenses of the government
Tor the fiscal year ending June 80, 1889,
and tor other purposes, ~ as provides for
tho withdrawal Of the public lands from
entry, occupation and settlement, is here
by repealed, and all entries made or claims
initiated in good faith and valid but for
said act, shall be recognized and may be
perfected in the same manner as if said
law had not been enacted, except that re-
serVoir sites heretofore located or selected
shall remain segregated and reserved from
entry OF settlement as provided by said
act, until otherwise provided by law, and
reservoir sites hereafter located or selected
on public lands shall in like manner be re-
served from the date of the location or Sc
lection thereof.
No person who shall, after the passage
OF this act, enter upon any of the public
lands with a view to occupation, entry, OF
settlement under any OF the land laws
shall bo permitted to acquire title to more
than a2O acres in the aggregate, under all
of SAID laws, but this Limitation shall not
operate to curtsil the right OF any person
who has heretofore made entry or settle
ment on the public lands. or whose occu-
patton, entry, or settlement, is validated
BY this act: Provided, That in all patents
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the land laws of the United States or on
entries or claims validated by this act,
west of the one hundredth meridian, it
shall be expressed that there is reserved
from the lands in said patent described, a
right-oi-way thereon Tor bitches or canals
constructed by the authority Of the Uni
ted States.
Grand free entertainment at the Indian
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