The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1906-09-27
NEW Law REGARDING
GOVERNMENT LANDS

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States Land Offices. Gentlemen =
Senate resolution of March 10, 1906,
Is as follows:
Resolved, That the secretary of the
interior be, and Is hereby, directed to
furnish to the state, on the first Mon
day of December, 1906, the names OF
the persons, firms and corporations
who conveyed or relinquished to the
Rovrnment of the United States and
within the limits of government forest
reserves, and who duly recorded the
same in the proper county prior to
the act of March 3rd, 1908, and who
had prior to said act failed to select
other public lands in lieu of the lands
30 conveyed or relinquished, or VITO
have failed, through no fault of their
own, to obtain patents to lands select
cd by them in lieu of lands 80 con
yeyed or relin1uished, as provided by
the act of June fourth, 1897, and who
can not on account of said act Of
March 3rd, 1866, make such selec-
tion, and also report the numbers Of
acres so conveyed or relinquished.
That III order to procure such intor-
nation the secretary of the interior is
hereby authorized and directed to re-
quire all such persons, firms and cor
porati ions to file in the land depart
ment, within time to be by him de-
signated, soch proofs of their convey,
ance or REIMBURSEMENT as he may pre-
scribe; and he Is further authorized
and directed to make such ftIthers,
rules and regulations AZ may be neces-
sary to procure the information here
by required.
Pursuant to the provisions of the
above resolution all persons, firms and
corporations who conveyed lands to
the United States government situate
within the limits of established forest
reserves by deeds duly executed ao-
knowledged, and recorded in the prop
or county offices prior to March 3,
1905, with bona tlde intention Of
thereafter selecting other p1blic lands
In lieu Of the lands so reconyeyed or
relinqhished under the provisions of
the act OF Juno A., 1897, go Stat, 36),
and acts amendatory thereof, aud who
failed to make any selection in salts.
faction of the lands by them so relln-
quished or whose selection under the
provision of the aforesaid act of June
4, 1897, have tailed through no fault
of the party making such Telinquish-
ment, and who by reason of the ap.
proval of the act of March 3, l9O5
are now prevented from making any
selections, are hereby directed to file
in the office of the commissioner OF
the general andotiice on or before DC
tober |, 1906, an instrument in writ,
ing describing the land relinquished
to the government prior to March 8,
1905, and containing representations
by the persons or corporation who
made the REIMBURSEMENT, that no Sc
lection 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 relinquish.
ment, reference to the section or
attempted section, which will enable
the commissioner of the general land
office to readily identify the same up
on the records of his office, and that
the land included in the REIMBURSEMENT
has not, since the deed of relinquish-
ment was filed tor record, been sold or
in anywise enoumbered by the person
or corporation making the relinquish.
ment of the government.
This statement should be addressed
to the commissioner Of the general
land office, should be styled and
briefed Statement conformable ia
senate resolution, March 10, 1906, "
and must be accompaniedhy the deed
of REIMBURSEMENT to the government
OF the United States, executed and re-
corded prior to March 3, 1908, 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 cor
poration making the REIMBURSEMENT
If the deed of REIMBURSEMENT has
been lost or for any reaOn can not be
produced, copy thereof, properly
certified by the recorder of deed Of
the county in which the land is stu
atedl Will beaCcepted.
Deed and abstracts of title will, up
on the request of the party filing the
same, be returned after they have
been examined and noted by the com
missioner of the general land office,
The persons, firms aud corporations
interested herein are expressly hereby
notified and warned that while the
statements and accompanying papers
herein described may be filed for
transmission to the general land
office, in the local land offices, and
that while the data contained in all
statements received in the general
land office at a time when its incor.
poration in the report to the senate
provided herein is practicable, will
be included in such report, all Ie.
sponsibility for the fling of such
statements aud accompanying papers
In the manner herein provided, rest
with them, that they ale hereby di-
rected to meet the requirement herein
made At the earliest date possible.
If deeds of relinquishments and ac.
companying papers transmit them to
the general land ofiice,with special re
ference to these instructions.
Post these instructions in your