Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-07-28
FOREST RESERVE SCRIP
Important Circular Relating to the Recording Of All
Such Deeds
Congress viii Make Valuable Scrip that Has Been Reject
ed Since March 8, 1905

The following circular has been
sent out by the general land Office and
| will be of interest to large number
| of people who have attempted to
locate forest reserve scrip in North
Dakota.
Gentlemen: Senate Resolution 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 hum,
dred and six, the names of the per-
sons, firms, and corporations who
conveyed or relinquished to the gov
eminent of the United States lands
within the limits of government forest
reserves, and who duly recorded the
same in, the proper county prior to
the act of March third, nineteen hun
dred and five, and had prior to said
at failed to select other public lands
in lieu of the lands so conveyed or re-
Hnquished, or who have failed,
through no fault of their own, to OBJ
! tain patents to lands selected by them
in lieu of lands SO conveyed or re-
linquished, as provided by the act Of
June fourth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-seven, and Who can not on ac-
count of said act of March third,
nineteen hundred and FIVE, make such
] selection, and also report the number
of acres so conveyed or relinquished.
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 file in the land depart,
ment, within a time to be by him
designated, such proofs of their con
: veyance or REIMBURSEMENT as he may
: prescribe; and he is further author
! lied and directed to make such
l further orders, rules, and regulations
e las may be necessary to procure the
information hereby required.
Pursuant to the provisions of the
; above resolution all persons, firms
t and corporations who conveyed lands
e to the United States government
v situate within the limits of estab
$ lished forest reserves by deeds duly
= executed, acknowledged, and recorded
e in the proper county offices prior t.
I,& IN IN,
t ton of thereafter selecting other pub
lie lands in lieu OF. the land so recon
Iveyed or relinquished under the pro
q visions of the act of June a.. 1897 (ct
q Stat, 36), and acts amendatory there
g Of, and who failed to make any selec
e ton in satisfaction of the lands b,
}. them so relinuuished or whose selec
s tions under the provisions of thu
r aforesaid act of June 4, 1897, haw.
failed through no fault of the part.
making such REIMBURSEMENT, and Wht
Q by reason of the approval of the &C
= of March 3, 1905, are now prevented
l. from making any selections, are here
s by directed to file in the office OF tn,
y commissioners of the general LAM
r office on or before October /, 1906, al
n instrument in writing describing tn,
land relinquished to the government
= prior to March 3, 1905, and containin,
~ representations by the person q
g corporation who made the relinquish
q ment, that no selection in lieu thereo
y has been made, or in case any selsc
u tion was made and the selection hai
y failed without fault OF the party max
=. ing the REIMBURSEMENT, a reference Y
the selection Or attempted selection
q which will enable the commissions
r of the general land Office to readil
X identify the same upon the records 3
81 his Office, and that the land include
.eI in the REIMBURSEMENT has not. sine
Is the deed Of REIMBURSEMENT was file.
for record, been sold or in anvyts
Il encountered by the person or corpors
ton making the REIMBURSEMENT to til
II government. III z@
leI This statement should be addresse
L y - ~
eel TO the commissioner Of the genera
it land Office, should be styled an
lg bricfed statement conformable I
& senate resolution, March is. 1906.
d and must be accompanied by the dee
Of REIMBURSEMENT to the government
lof the United States, executed and 4
s. corded prior to March 3, 1905, and a
d abstract Aof title duly authenticats
). showing that at the date the deed q
,t REIMBURSEMENT was 81 recorded th
hi title to the land was n the person 3
ii corporation making the relinauisf
d menf II the deed OF relinqnishnan
d has been lost Or for any reason III;
il mot be produced, q copy tlereo
Il properly certified By the recorder 4
& deeds Of the county Id which the Ian