The Dickinson press., 1893-03-25
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Provisions Of the New Tree Claim
Law.


Provisions of the New Tree Claim
Law.
The new tree claim law is broad,
and applies to residents and non-resi-
dents alike, all of whom make proof
regardless of the number of trees
growing. 1t repeats the old law Of
June IA, 1878, but does not affect any
valid rights heretofore accrued or
accruing under said law. The fol-
lowing are its provisions:
An act, entitled an act to amend an act entitled
an act to encourage the growth of timber on the
western prairics, approved June IA, 1878, and all
laws supplementary thereto. are hereby repealed;
provided, that this repeal shall not affect any
valid rights heretofore accrued or %accruing under
said laws, but all bona fde claims lawfully init
ated before the passage Of this act may be per-
fcctcd upon due compliance with the law, in the
same manner, upon the same terms and condi-
tons and subject to the same limitations, forfeit
ures and contests as if this act had not been
passed. And provided further, that the follow
ing words of the last clause of section = of said
act, namely: "rhat not less than twenty seven
hundred trees were planted on each acre. are
hereby repealed; And provided further, that in
computing the period of cultivation the time
shall run from the date Of entry, if the necessary
acts of cultivation We're performed within the
proper time; And provided further, that the prep
~aration of the land and the planting o: the trees
shall be construed as acts of cultivation, and the
time authorized TO be employed and actually en-
ployed shall be computed us u part OF eight years
of cultivation required by statute; Provided, that
any person who has made entry of any public
lands of the United States under the timber-cul- :
turc laws, and who has for u period of four years
in good faith complied with The provisions of
said laws and who is an actual bona ide resident
of the state or territory IN which said land is To-
Gated shall bl entitled TO make final proof thereto,
and acquire title TO the same. by the payment of
one dollar and twenty-five cents 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 be allowed the same
fees and compensation for the final proofs in tim.
Der culture entries as is now allowed by law in
homestead entries; and provided further, that no
land acquired under the provisions of this act
shall in any event become lia BILE to the ~satisfac-
ton of any debt or debts contracted prior to the
issuing of the final certificate therefor.
To this is added Pickler's amendment pissed
on the sundry civil appropriation bill, which
comes IN after the fourth proviso above: Tha,
section ! of an act entitled an act to repeal tim
ber-culture laws, and for other purposes, approx.
ed March 3, 1891, be and is hereby amended by
adding the following words to the fourth proviso
thereof: And provided further, that if trees
seeds, or cuttings were in good faith planted us
provided by law, and the same and the land upor
which go planted were thereafter in good faith
cultivated as provided by law, for at least eight
years, by u person qualified to make entry and
who has a subsisting entry under the timber cul
ture laws, final proof may be made without re
gard to the number of trees that may have beer
growing on the land.