The Glenwood post., 1906-06-23
AOnESTfADS IN
FOREST RESERVES
Settlement Act Signed by presi.
dent Projects Settlers in
Rights to HOMeStedds

agricultural settlement bill
which was recently passed by both
houses of congress, was signed on June
10 by President Roosevelt and has be
come law. The new law provides
that no further settlement on any lands
within forest reserves is authorized
until they have been publicly declared
appen to settlement by the secretary
= u the interior. Any settlement on
such lands prior to the opening by the
secretary Of the interior will not only
confer no rights on the settler but
will constitute trespass. This law
should be read carefully by our land
owners and settlers as 1t will prevent
any hardships being worked upon them
II they thoroughly understand the
provisions as follows:
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives of the United
States Of America in Congress assem-
blea, That the Secretary of Agricul-
ture may. in his discretion, and he is
hereby authorized, upon application
or otherwise. to examine and ascertain
as to the location and extent of lands
within permanent or temporary forest
reserves, except which are chiefly val
liable for agriculture, and which, in
his opinion, may be occupied for agri-
cultural purposes without injury to
the forest reserves, and which are not
needed for public purposes, and may
list and describe the same by metes
asand bounds, or otherwise, and file the
lists and descriptions with the secre-
tary of the interior, with the request
that the said lands be opened to entry
in accordance with the provisions of
the homestead laws and this Act.
Upon the fling of any such list or
description the secretary of the interior
shall declare the said lands open to
homestead SETTLEMENT and entry in
) tracts not exceeding one mile in
length. at the expiration of sixty days
from the fling of the list in the land
Office Of the district within which the
lands are located, during which per
Iod the said list OF description shall be
prominently posted in the landoffice
and advertised fol- period of not
less than four weeks in one news
paper of general circulation published
In the county in which the lands are
situated. Provided, That any settler
actually occupying and in good feith
claiming such lands for agricultural
purposes prior to January first, nineteen
hundred and six, and who shall not
have abandoned the same, and the per-
son, II qualified to make a homestead
entry, upon whose application the land
proposed to be entered was examined
and listed, shall, each in the order
named, have preference right of set
Element and entry:
Provided further. That any entry
man desiring to obtain patent to any
lands described by metes and bounds
entered by him under the provisions
of this Act shall, within five years of
kho onto VI lhdhluk 5bltICluChls hiO,
with the required proof of residence
and cultivation, a plat and field notes
OF the lands entered, made by or I'M
der the direction OF the United States
surveyor general, showing accurat ely
the boundaries of such ladns, which
shall be distinctly marked by monu-
ments OH the ground. and by posti ng
copy of such plat. together with no.
tice of the time and place of offering
proof, in a conspicuous place on the
land embraced in such plat during the
period prescribed by law for the publ
cation of his notice of intention to Of
fer prouf, and that copy of such plat
and field notes shall also be kept posted
in the office of the register of the land
office for the land district in which
such lands are situated for a like per-
iod; and further, that any agricultur-
al lands within forest reserves may, at
the discretion of the secretary. be sur
veyed by metes and bounds, and that
no lands entered under the provisions
of this Act shall be patented under
the Communication provisions of the
homestead laws, but settlers. upon
6nal proof, shall have credit for the
period Of their actual residence upon
the lands covered by their entries.
Section 3. That settlers upon lands
chiefly valuable for agriculture with
In forest reserves on January first.
nineteen hundred and six, who have
already exercised or lost their home
stead privilege. but are otherwise
competent to enter lands under the
homestead laws, are hereby granted
an additional homestead right Of entry
for the purposes Of this Act only, and
such settlers must otherwise comply
with the provisions of the homestead