The Alaska prospector., 1903-03-19
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Provides For Obtaining Paten, to Unsurveyed Land. Text
 of the Bill

kans Tn New 1ork, most of whom were from Valdez, it was ageeed that they should urge the passage of practical homestead law for Alaska. These people went in a body to visit the president and their recommendations were in- serted in his annual message, and as a r, salt the land law has been passed. The following is the com plete bill as signed by the president, March 4, 1903:
 "An Act to amend Section One of the Act of Congress approved May 14th, 1898, entitled An Act extending the homestead laws and providing for a right-of-way for railroads in the district of Alaska is hereby amended to read as fol- lows:
 That all the provisions of the homestead laws of the United States not in conflict with the provisions of this Act, and all rights incident thereto, are hereby extended to the District of Alaska, subject to such regulations as may be made by the Secretary of the Interior; and no indemnity, deficiency or lieu lands pertaining to any land grant origi- mating outside of the District of Alaska, and no scrip or warrant of any kind whatsoever shall be lOcat- ed within, taken from or exercised on any lands in said district, ex- cept as now provided by law.
 Provided, that no more than 16O acres shall be entered in any single body by such scrip, lieu, selection or soldiers additional homestead right; and provided further, that no location of scrip, selection or right along any navigable or other waters shall be made within the distance of eighty rods of any land along such waters heretofore To- cated by means of any such scrip or otherwise; and provided further, that no communication privileges shall be allowed in excess of 16O acres included in any homestead entry under the provisions hereof.
 And provided further, that no entry shall be allowed extending more than 16O rods along the shore of any navigable water, and along such shore space of at least eighty rods shall be reserved for entry be- tween all such claims; and that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to authorize entries to be made or title to be acquired to the shore of any navigable wat CTS within said district; and no patent shall issue hereunto until all the requirements of Sections twenty-two hundred and ninety one, twenty-two hundred and ninety-two, and twenty-three hun dred and five of the Revised Stat utes of the United States have been full ly complied with as to residence, improvements, cultivation and proof. except us to commuted lands as herein provided.
 And it is further provided, that there shall he and is hereby grant ed every settler who is qualified to make homestead entry of the pub lie lands of the United States, who has settled, or who shall hereafter settle on any of the public lands of the United States situated in the District of Alaska, whether sur veyed or unsurveyed, with the in- tention of claiming the same under the homestead laws, and who shall nave resided upon and cultivated the same for the period of five years, beginning from the date of his actual settlement thereon. the quantity of one-half section, or three hundred and twenty acres of land. If any of the land 60 settled upon, or to be settled upon, is un- surveyed, then the- land settled upon or to be settled upon must be located in a rectangular form, one mile in length and one-hali mile in width, and located by north and south lines run according to the true meridian. That the loca. tiOn go made shall he marked upon the ground by permanent monu.