Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-01-25

| Ing the mineral resources tnereO1.
Provided, said person or persons
may take only sufficient live stock,
implements, etc., thereon neces-
sary to prosecute said prospecting.
Provided, further, that no building
of a permanent character shall be
erected by said prospector or pros
pectors, until the land desired by
him or them shall have been filed
upon under the mineral or other
laws and thus segregated from
said leased land.
Sec. Is. That the government,
upon its own initiation, at any
time, for the purpose of irrigation
and entry, or other special uses or
improvement of said lands, may
declare any lease void and take
possession of said lands. Provid-
ed, the lessee under these provis-
ions shall have at least six months
legal notice of such intention. Pro-
vided, further. that the lessee shall
be reimbursed for actual loss sus-
tanned in Improvements named in
section eleven QD in addition to
windmills and fences placed there
under said lease, hereby cancelled.
Damage to be awarded as in ordi-
nary condemnation proceedings.
Sec. Is. Where lessee has bee n
deprived of any land by the pro-
visions of any of the foregoing
sections, the land Office shall COM
pute the amount due him for the
unexpired time for which payment
has been made and the receiver
shall draw from this fund sufficient
to reimburse said lessee for the
amount paid and and not earned,
the same being computed pro rata.
Sec. II. Any lease shall be Ii
able to cancellation, whenever in
the judgment of the land office
authorities the same has been OBJ
tanned by fraud, collision or mis-
representation, or used to defeat
the object of the law, the lessee to
forfeit all claims for reimburse
ment under section sixteen (16) of
this act.
Sec. IS. Any person who at
tempts to trespass, or through
carlessness or neglect permits his
live stock of any character to range
or Craze upon the land of another,
upon conviction thereof shall be
subject to fine of not less than fifty
$500 dollars nor more than one
thousand $4,000 dollars, and also
liable for damages to said lessee.
Provided, the lessee shall inclose
his leased land with legal fence,
defined in section nine 90 of this
act. Provided, further, that moth
ing in this section shall be constru-
ed to prevent leesses of joining
tracts from uniting to fence their |
several tracts in one or more en-
closures.
Sec. 10. Forest reserves and
lands of like character may be
made subject to the provisions of
this act, under such notifications
and regulations as may be ordered |
by the proper department.
Sec. 20. The register and re-
ceiver shall charge one ($D dollar
fee, in addition commission of |
two ~ per cent of amount of said
lease for each lease issued, lease to |
contain all lands leased one person
or interest at a single disposal. |
Also two o. per cent of all mon
eys received from annual pay
ments. Also the usual fee for pub
LEGATION of notices, taking testi-
mony, ect., now in force for SER
vices of like character. All of which
shall be accounted for and return
ed as a part of the earnings of the
office.
Sec. 81. The secretary of the |
interior shall be authorized to
promulgate any rules and regula-
tions necessary to carry out the
DurnOSes of this act.