The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-16

New Proof Required Of Eilcrs Upon
Public Lands.
The following very important and self
explanatory circular has been received ct
the local land Office:
DEPARTMENT or THE INTERIOR
GENERAL LAND OFFICE. !
WASHINGTON. d. g., Sept. 5. $780,
Registers and Receivers United States Land
iccs-Gensttm<n: am directed by the honor
able secretary OF the interior, by letter Of Sep
TENDER 4, 1890, TO call your attention to the ct.
tached copy Of that portion OF the act Of con.
gress, approved August 80, 1890. which repeats
30 mach OF the act of October 2. 1883 (25 stat
$50, - withdraws the lands in the arid region
Of the United States from entry, occupation and
settlement, with tho exception that reservoir
sites heretofore located or selected shall remain
segregated and reserved from entry or settle
ment until otherwise provided by law. and re-
servoir sites hereafter located or selected on
public lands shall in like manner be reserved
from the date Of the location or selection. The
circulars OF this ofi:e of August S, 1889, aud Au
gust 8. 1890. are hereby rescinded.
Entries validated by this act will be acted
upon In regular order. and AL patents issued
on entries made subsequent to this act and on
entries 30 validateds west OF the one hundreth
meridian. will contain clause reserving the
right OF way for bitches and canals constructed
by authority of the United Stats.
Your particular attention il called to that por-
tOn Of the law which restricts the requirement
Of title under the land law to $50 acres in the
aggregate.
You will require from all applicants to file or
enter under auy Of the land laws OF the United
States, an affidavit showing that since August
80. 1890, they had not filed upon or entered. nm
der said laws, . quantity of land which would
make, with the tracts applied for. moro than
$40 acres. Or, provided the party should claim
by virtue of the exception to settlers prior to
the act OF August 80. 1890. you will require an
affidavit establishing the fact
Az soon a. practicable q blank form of afida-
Wit will be furnished you. Very respectfully.
LEWIS A. GRorF,
Commissioner.
For Topographic SURVEYS in various
portions of the United States, $685., 600 ,one-
hall of which sum shall be expended west
of the one-hundredth meridian; and SO
much OF the act of October second, 1883,
edtitled An Act making appropriations for
sundry civil expenses of the government
for the fiscal year ending June Ii. 1889,
and for other purposes as provides for
the withdrawal of the public lands from
entry, occupation and settlement. is hereby
repealed and all entries made of claims mi
tiated in good faith and valid but for said
act, shall be recognized and may be per-
fected in the same manner as if said law
had not been enacted. except that reservoir
sites heretofore located or selected shall re-
main segregated and reserved from entry
or 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 reserved from
the date of the location or selection there
of.
mo person who shall, after the passage of
this act, enter upon any of the public lands
with view to occupation, entry, or settle
ment under any of the land laws. shall be
permitted to acquire title to more than
three hundred and twenty acres in the az
gregate. under all of said laws. but this linz
itation shall not operate to curtail the right
of any person who has heretofore made en-
try or settlement on the public lands. or
whose occupation. entry or settlement is
validated by this act: P,0Va ed. That in all
patents for lands hereafter aKen up under
any of the land laws of the luited 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, q
right-of-way thereon for bitches or canals
constructed by the authority of the United
States"