The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1895-06-15
THE LAND LAWS.
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acre, according as the land is minimum
or double minimum. Many parties have
lost their lands by failure to send the
excess.
Where an entry is made for land that
had been covered by prior entry, the
residence will date from the time when
| the last entry is placed of record, or
from date of cancellation of the first
entry, if settlement was prior to the
date of cancellation.
No person who is the proprietor of
more than 100 acres of land in any state
or territory shall acquire any right
under the homestead law.
A homesteader forfeits his entry if he
transfers any portion thereof before final
receipt issues, except it be for school,
church or cemetery purposes, or for the
| right of way of railroads, canals or
bitches for irrigating purposes.
Parties who have made entries of less
than 100 acres of land, are, under some
circumstances, allowed to enter enough
more land to make up 100 acres. In
some cases they are permitted to rel
inquish their entries. A full statment
OF the facts in each case should be SUBJ
| mitted to the local officers for their
judgment and advice.
Parties who desire to enter public
land should send to the general land
Office for pamphlet dated February 6,
1892, which will be sent free of charge
to all applicants.
The commissioner of the general land
office expressly forbids the local officer
to furnish blank entry papers and af-
fidaVits to anybody except claimants in
person.
TIMBER AND STONE ENTRIES.
An act for the sale of timber lands ip
the public land states.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in congress assembled. That
surveyed public lands of the United
States within the public lands states,
not included within military or Indian
or other reservations of the United
States, valuable chiefly for timber but
unfit for cultivation, and which have not
been offered at public sale, according to
law, may be sold to citizens of the United
States, or persons who have declared
their intention to become such in GUAM
titles not exceeding one hundred and
sixty acres to any one person or associa-
ton of persons, at the minimum price
of two dollars and fifty cents per acre;
and lands valuable chiefly for stone may
be sold on the same terms as timber
lands: Provided, That nothing herein
contained shall defeat or impair any
bonafde claim under any law of the
United States, or authorize the sale of
any mining claim, or the improvements
of any bona-6de settler, or lands con-
tanning gold silver, cinnabar, copper, or
coal, or lands selected by the said states
under any law of the United States
donating lands for internal Improvements,
education, or other purposes; Add provi-
ded further, That mono of the rights
conferred by the act approved July 16,
1866, entitled can act granting the right
of way to ditch and canal owners over
public lands, and for other purposes
shall be abrogated by this act; and all
patents granted shall be subjected to
any vested and accrued water-rights, or
rights to bitches and reservoirs used 10
connection with such water rights, as
may have been acquired under and by
the provisions of said act, and such
rights shall be expressly reserved in any
patent issued under this tot,
Sec. 2. That any person desiring to
avail himself of the provisions of this
act shall file with the register of the
proper district a written statement in
duplicate, one of which is to be trans
mitted to the general land Office, des-
ignating by legal subdivisions, the par
ticular tract of land which he desires
to purchase, setting forth that the same
is unfit for cultivation, land valued chiefly
| for it's timber or stone; that it is unhab-
tied: contains no mining or other i'm
provements, except for ditch or canal
purposes, where any such do exist: save
such as were made by or belong to the
applicant, nor as deponent verify be-
lieves any valuable deposit of gold,
silver, cinnabar, copper or coal; that
deponent has made no other application
under this act; that he does not apply
to purchase the same on speculation,
but in good faith to appropriate it to
his own exclusive use and benefit, and
that he has not, directly or Indirectly,
made any agreement or contract, in any
way or manner, with any person or
persons whatsoever. by which the title
which he might acquire from the COVER
of the United States should inure, in
whole or in part, to the benefit of any
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