Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-11-09
FOREST RESERVE LANDS
SUBJECT TO SETTLEMENT
Interior Department Issues Rules
Governing Entry of Agri.
cultural Lands.

The following are the rules govern.
ing the entry of agricultural lands in
forest reserves:
]. Both surveyed and unsurveyed
! lands within forest reserves which are
chiefly valuable for agriculture and
not needed for public use may, from
cine to time, be examined, classi fed
and listed under the supervision of
the secretary of agriculture, and lists
thereof will be filed by him with the
secretary of the interior, who will
then declare the listed lands subject to
settlement and entry.
2. Any person desiring to enter any
unlisted lands of this character should
present an application for their ex.
animation, classification. and listing
to 1.-THE Forester, Washington, D.
c." in the manner prescribed by
regulations issued by the agricultural
department
3. When any lands have been de-
clared subject to entry under this act
the land Office for the district In
which they are located will be fur
nished with list thereof, and the
register and receiver will immedi-
ateiy, upon receipt of such list, file
1t 10 their Office. and at the same
time issue notices of such filing and
name therein the 6lst day after the
day on which the list is filed by them
as the date on which the lands listed
therein will be open to settlement and
entry under the homestead laws.
4. You will keep copy of the
notice of the fling Of each list promi-
nently posted in your Office during the
80 days following such fling. and also
publish copy of the notices during
that period for not less than four
weeks in newspaper of general circu-
lation published in each county in
which any of the lands are located,
and If there be no newspaper pub.
lished in such county you will publish
the notice in a newspaper of general
circulation published nearest the land.
: 5. The cost of publishing the
notice mentioned in the preceding
paragraph will not be paid by the re-
ceiver, but the publishers vouchers
therefore, in duplicates should be for
warded through your Office to this
office, accompanied by duly exc
cuted proof of publication.
6. In addition to the publication
and post ing, above provided for, you
will, on the day the list is filed in
your office, mail copy of the notice
to any person known to you to be
claiming preferred right of entry as
a settler ON any of the lands described
therein, aud also at the same time
mail copy of the notice to the per.
son on whose application the lands
embraced in the list were examined
and listed and advise each of them of
their preferred right to make entry
prior to the expiration of co days from
the date upon which the list is filed
Z. Any person qualified TO make
homestead entry, VINO, prior to jan
uary /, 1905, occupied and in good
faith claimed any lands listed under
this act for agricultural purposes, and
who has not abandoned the same, has
a preferred right to enter such CONT.
guous tracts covered by his settlement
as will not exceed 100 acres in area and
not exceed one mile in length, at any
time within 60 days from the date
upon which the list of such lands was
filed in your Office.
s. The fact that a settler named in
'se preceding paragraph has already
! xcrcised or lost his homestead right
will not prevent him from making |