Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-09-27
FOREST RESERVE
LIEU LANDS
Instruc:ions Issued by The Depart.
ment of the INTERIOR.

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land Office at The Dalles are in receiI
of letter of instruction and directio
from the Department Of the Interior i
relation to Senate Resolution of Marct
1906, and forest reserve relinquishment
and Ecu land selections.
Resolved, That the Secretary of tn
Interior be, and he is hereby, directe
to furnish to the Senate, on the frs
Monday OF December, nineteen hundre'
and six, the names OF the persons
firms, and corporations who conveyed
or relinquished to the Government o
the United States lands within th'
limits of Government forest reserves
ard who duly recorded the same in tht
proper county prior to the Act of Marct
third, nineteen hundred and elk, anC
who had prior to said Act failed tC
select other public lands in lieu of the
lands so conveyed or reinquished, ol
who failed, through no fa5it of their
own, to obtain patents to lands selected
bv them in lieu of lands SO conveyed or
relenquished, as provided by an Act OF
June 4, 1897, and who can not on
account of said Act Of March 3. 1906,
make such selection. and also report
the number OF acres so conveyed or re-
linquished.
That in order to procure such in
formation the Secretary OF the Interior
is hereby authorized and directed TO
require all such persons, firms, and
corporations to fie in the Land Depart
ment, within a time to be by him
designated, such proofs of their convey
ance or REIMBURSEMENT as he may pre-
scribe; and he is further authorized and
directed to make such further orders,
rules, and regulations as may be neces-
sary to procure tie information hereby
required.
Pursuant to the provisions of the
above resolution all persons, firms. and
corporations who conveyed lands to the
United States Government situate with
in the limits of established forest re.
serves by deeds duly executed, acknow.
lodged, AMI recorded in the proper
county Offices prior to March 8. 1905,
with bona fide intention of thereafter
selecting other public lands in lieu of
the lands 30 reconveyed or relirouished |
under the provisions of the Act of June
t, 1897 go Stat. 36,) and acts amenda-
:ory thereof. and who failed to make
my selection in satisfaction of lands by
hem go relinquished or whose Sc
ections under the provisions of the
.foresaid act of June 4, 1897, have failed
Trough no fault of the party making
uch REIMBURSEMENT, and who by
eason of the approval of the Act of
larch 8, 1905, are DOW prevented from
naking any selections are hereby
irected to file in the office Of the Com
missioner of the General Land Office on
r before Oct. l, 1906, an instrument IN
Trifing describing the land relinquished
D the Government prior to March 8
9O5, and containing representations by
he person or the corporation who
,ade, or in case any selection was Sc
'ction in lieu thereof has been made,
r in case any selection was made and
ne selection has failed without fault of
1e party making REIMBURSEMENT,
'ference to the selection of attempted .
election, which will enable the Com.
lissioner of the General Land Office to
'adily identify the came upon the
cords of his office, and that the land
clude5 in the relinGuishment has not, D,
nee the deed of relinqushment was :,
ed for record, been sold or in any II
ise encumbered bv the person or cor !"
1ration making the REIMBURSEMENT to
lie Government. :,
This statement should be addressed :.
the Commissioner of the General =,
and Office, should be styled and :,
'iefed statement conformable to J.,
mate Resolution, March 10, 1906" :,
ID must be accompanied by the deed ;,
REIMBURSEMENT to the Government OF
e United States, execute and record-
prior to March 3, 1905, and an =,
'stract of title duly authenticated :,
owing that at the date the deed of re :,
punishment has been lost or for any >,
ason can not be produced, copy r
ereof properly certified by the re- .;
rider of deeds of the county in which -
e land is situate will be accepted. ..
Deeds and abstracts of title will, up =.
the request of the party filing the
ne, be returned after they have been 40
amined and noted by the commits ",
ner of the general land office. th
The persons. firms and corporations to