Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-03-19
LAND LAW CHANGES.
The Text OF the New Law Whicl.
Makes Some Important
Changes.
The Timber Culture, Act Re.
pCalel.--.KO KOmeStead Law
Amended.
MasOns and Odd Fellows Make
Merry ut Eratcrnai Ban
HuetS.
vhe Text Ol'tllc law.


The following are the sections entire
Of the new land law which relate to The
repeal Of the timber culture aud PIE
empLlon acts. The homestead law is alst
amended, one feature being that com
mutation can not be made until after al
actual residence If fourteen months
No person who is already the owner oI
16O acres of land, can acquire any right
under .he homestead law.
Be it enacted, etc, That an act enti.
tied an act to amend an act entitled an
act to encourage the growth Of timber on
the western pralries, approved June Il,
1878, and all laws supplementary thereto
or amendatory thereof, be, and the same
are hereby repealed: Provided, That
this repeal shall not affect any valid
rights heretofore accrued or accruing
under said laws, but all bona hde claims
lawfully initiated before the passage of
this act MAJ be perfected upon due com-
pllance with law, in the same manner,
upon the Same terms and Conditions, and
subject to the same limitations, forfei-
lures and contests as If this act had not
been passed: And provided further, that
the following words Of the last clause of
section 2 Of said act, namely, "Ihat not
less than twenty seven hundred trees
we're planted on each acre" are hereby
sepeal, d: And provided further, That,
in computing the period Vi cultivation,
the time shall run from the date of entry
If the necessary acres of cultivation we're
performed within the proper time: And
provided further, That the preparation
Of the land aud the planting OF trees
ehall be construed as acts of cultivation,
and the time authorized TO be so en-
ployed and actually employed shall be
computed as part of the eight years
1equlred by statute: Provided, That
any person who has made entry of any
public lands of the United States under
the timber culture laws, and who has for
. period of four years in good faith com.
piled with tho provisions of said laws
and who is an actual bona fiue resident
Of the state or territory in which .ald
land is located, shall be entitled to make
6nal proof thereto, and acquire title to
1he same, by the payment Of Sl25 per
acre for such tract, under such rules and
regulations as shall be prescribed by the
secretary of the interior, and registers
and receivers shall De allowed the same
Fees and compensation for final proofs
in timber culture entries as IS allowed
BY law in homestead entries: And pro-
yided further, That no land acquired un.
der the provisions Of this act shall in any
event become liable to the satisfaction of
any debt or debts contracted prior to the
issuing Of the final certificate therefor.
Sec. 3. That section 228o of the re-
vlsed statutes be amended so as to read
as follows:
''Sec. 2288. Any bona fide settler un-
der the pre--mption, homestead, or other
settlement law. shall have the right to
transfer, by warranty against his own
acts, any portion of his claim for church,
cemetery, or school purposes, or for the
right of way of railroads, canals, reser-
volrs, or bitches for irrigation or drain
age across it; and the transfer for such
public purposes shall in no way vitiate
the right to complete and perfect the
title of his claim.
Sec. T. That chapter of title XXXII,
excepting sections 2275, 2576, 2286 OF the
Revised Statutes of the United States,
and all Otaer laws allowing pre-emptlOn
Of the public lands Of the Uunited States
are hereby repealed, but all bona tide
claims Law fully initiated before the pas.
sage of this act, under any of said pro-
visions of law SO repealed, may be per-
fected upon due compliance with law in
the same manner, upon the same terms
and conditions, and subject to the same
limitations, forGeitures, and contests, as
if this act had not been passed
Sec 5. That sections 2259 and 229C
in said chapter numbered of the revised
statutes, be and the same are hereby,
amended, SO that they shall read as
follows:
"Sec. 22S9. Every person who is the
head of family, or who has arrived ut
the age of twenty.one years, and is Il citi-
zen of the United States, or who has
filed his declaration of intention to be-
come such. as r, quired by the naturaliza.
ton laws, ehall be entitled to enter one
quarter section, or less quantity of un-
appropriated public lands, to be located
in a body in conformity to the legal sub
divisions of the public lands; but no per.
son who is the proprietor of more than
100 acres OF land in any state or territory
shall acquire any right under the home
stead law. And every person owning
and residing on land may ur der the pro-
vision OF this section, enter other land
lying contiguous to his land, which shall
not, with th- land 80 already owned and
occupied, exceed in the aggregate 16(
acres.
'.Sec. 229O. That any person APPLYING
to enter land under the preceding section
shall frat make and subscribe before the
proper officer an affidavit that he or ehe
IL the bend Of a family, or is over twenty
one years OF age. and that such applica
ton ia honestly and in good faith made
for the purpose Of actual settlen: ent and
cultivation, and not for the benefit OF any
other person. or persons or 60 poration
and that he or she will faithfully anG
honestly endeavor to comply with all the
requirements OF law as to settlement
residence and cultivation necessary t