Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1906-08-11
LANDS IN FOREST RESERVES.

hon rights under act OF congress dated
June 4, 1897. Senate Resolutions Of
March 10, 1906, is as follows:
Resolved, That the Secretary of the
Interior, be, and he is hereby directed
to furnish to the Senate, on the first
Monday in December, nineteen hundred
and six, the names of the persons, firms,
and corporations who conveyed or re-
linquished to the Government of the
United States lands within the limits Of
Government forest reserves, and who
duly recorded the same in the proper
county prior 10 the Act Of March third,
nineteen hundred and Eve, and who had
prior to said Act failed to select other
public lands in lieu Of the lands so con-
veyed or relinquished, or who have
failed, through no fault of their own, to
obtain patents to lands selected by them
in lieu Of lands so conveyed or relin-
quished, as provided 10y the Act Of June
fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety
seven, and who can not on account Of
said Act of March third, nineteen hun
dred and five, make such selection, and
also report the number of acres so con-
veyed or relinquished.
That in order to procure such infor-
nation the Secretary of the Interior is
hereby authorized and directed to re-
quire all such persons, firms, corpora
tions to file in the Land Department,
within time to be by him designated.
such proofs of their conveyance or re-
linquishment as be may prescribe; and
he is further authorized and directed to
make such further orders, rules and reg
uations as may be necessary to procure
the information hereby required.
Pursuant to the provisions Of the above
resolution all persons, firms, and cor
porations who conveyed lands to Che
United States Government situate with
in the limits of established forest re-
serves by deeds duly executed, acknowl-
edged and recorded in the proper coun-
ty Offices prior to March 3, 1908, with a
bona fide intention Of thereafter select
ing other public lands in lieu of the
lands SO reconveyed or relinquished un-
der the provisions of the Act of June 4,
1897 go Stat 36), and acts amendatory
thereof, and who failed to make any Sc
lection in satisfaction of the lands by
them so relinquished or whose selec-
tions under the provisions of the afore
said act of June 4, 1897, have failed
through no fault of the party making
such REIMBURSEMENT, and who by rea-
son of the approval of the act Of March
3, 1905, are now prevented from making
any selections, are hereby directed to
file in the Office of the Commissioner of
the General Land Office on or before
October /, 1906, an instrument in writ
ing describing the land relinquished to
the Government prior to March 3, 1905
and containing representations by the
person or corporation who made the re-
linquishment. that no selection in lieu
thereof has been made, or in case any
selection was made and the selection has
failed without fault Of the party making
the REIMBURSEMENT, reference to the
selection or attempted selection, which
will enable the Commissioner of the
General Land Office to readily identify
the same upon the records of his Office,
and that the land included in the reln-
quishment has not, since the deed Of re-
was filed for record, been
sold or in anywise encumbered by the
person or corporation making the relin-
quishment to the Government
This statement should be addressed
to the Commissioner of the General
Land Office, should be styled and brief.
ed Statement conformable to Senate
Resolution, March l9, 1906" and must
be accompanied by the deed of relin-
quishment to the Government of the
United States, executed and recorded
prior to March 3, 1905, and an abstract
of title duly authenticated showing that
at the date the deed Of REIMBURSEMENT
was recorded the title to the land was
in the person or corporation making the
REIMBURSEMENT. If the deed of relin-
quishment has been lost or for any rea-
son cannot be produced, a copy thereof
properly certified by the Recorder of
Deeds of the county in which the land
is situate will be accepted.
Deeds and abstracts Of title will, upon
the request of the party filing same, be
returned after they have been examined
and noted by the Commissioner of the
General Land Office.
The persons, firms and corporations
interested herein are expressly hereby
notified and warned that while the
statements and accompanying papers
herein described may be filed for trans
mission to the General Land Office, in
the local land offices, and that while the
date contained in all statements received
in the General Land Office at a time
when its incorporation in the report to
the Senate provided herein is practical
BILE, will be included in such report, all
responsibility for the filing of such
statements and accompanying papers in
the manner herein provided, rests with
them, and that they are hereby directed
to meet the requirements herein made
at the earliest date possible.
If deeds of relinquishmen and accom-
panyng papers as provided herein. are
filed in your Offices, you will immediate
ly transmit them to the General Land
Office Will, special reference TO these in
structions.
Colonel Goddard was unanimously re-
appointed commandant of the Soldiers
Home Of Hot Springs, by the State Sol