Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-04-18
REGULATIONS COVE RNING EN-
TRIES WITHIN FOREST
RESERVES.
Department of the Interior, General
Land Office. Washington, d. c..
September Z, 1906.

September Z. 1906.
Registers and Receivers. U. S. Land
Offies.
Sirs: Your attention is called to the |
act of June II, 1906, GA Stat, 233), |
the copy of which is hereto attached |
as Appendix A. This act authorizes |
homestead entries for lands within |
forest reserves. and you are instruct
ed there under as follows
|. Both surveyed and unsurveyed
lands within forest reserves which
are chiefly valuable for agriculture
and not needed for public use may,
from time to time, be examined, classi
fed. and listed under the supervision
of the secretary of agriculture, and
the secretary OF the interior. who will
then declare the listed lands subject
to settlement and entry.
2. Any person desiring TO enter
any unlisted lands of this character
should present an application for their
examination, classification. and listing
to "The Forester, Washington, d. c."
in the manner prescribed by regula-
tons issued by the agricultural depart
ment. (The present regulations of
this kind are attached as Appendix
b
9. When any lands have been de-
clared subject to entry under this
act the land office for the district in
which they are located will be furnish
ed with a list thereof, and the reg
lister and receiver will Immediately,
upon receipt of such list. file In in
their office, and at the same time Is
sue notices of such filing and name
therein the sixty-frst day after the
day on which the list is filed by them
rs the date on which the lands listed
therein will be open to settlement and
entry under the homestead laws.
4. The notice mentioned in the pre-
reding paragraph should be substan-
TALLY in the form of the notice hereto
>attached, and you will keep copy of
the notice of the filing of each list
prominently posted in your office dur
ing the sixty days following such FL
ing and also publish copy of the no
tice during that period for not less
than four weeks in a newspaper of
general circulation published in ca III
county in which any of the lands are
located, and If there be no newspaper
published in said county you will pub
lish the notice in a newspaper of gen.
eral circulation published nearest the
land.
5. The cost of publishing the no.
tice mentioned in the preceding para
| graph will not he paid by the receiver,
but the publishers vouchers therefor,
| in duplicate, should be forewarded
| through your office to this office, ac-
| companied by duly executed proof
of publication.
| 6. In addition to- the publication
| and posting, above provided for, you
Will on the day the list is filed in
your office, mail copy of the notice
! to any person known by you to be
claiming a preferred right of entry as
! a settler on any of the lads described
| therein, and also at the same time
mail a copy of the notice to the person
on whose application the land EN-
braced in the list were examined and
| listed and advise each of them of their
| preferred right to make entry prior to
the expiration of sixty days from the
date upon which the list is filed.
Z. Any person qualified to make a
homestead entry who. prior to Jan
uary l, 1906, occupied and in good
faith claimed any lands listed under
this act for agricultural purposes, and
who has not abandoned the same, has
a perfect right to enter such contigu
GUS tracts covered by his settlement as
will not exceed 160 acres in area and
not exceed one mile in length, at any
upon which the list of such lands was
filed in your office.
s, The fact that settler named In
the preceding paragraph has already
exercised or lost his homestead right
will not prevent him from making en-
try of the lands settled upon II he is
otherwise qualified to make entry
nut ne cdH NOT ODtdiu patent until
he has complied with all of the re
quirements of the homestead law as
to residence and cultivation and paid
! $3.50 per acre for the land entered
by him.
.. The person upon whose applica.
tion any land is listed under this act
has, If he is qualified to make entry
under the homestead laws, the prefer
] red right to enter such contiguous
tracts listed upon his application as
will not exceed 100 acres in area
and not exceed one mile in length,
Mt any time within sixty days from
the date on which the list embracing
such lands was filed in your office,
but his entry will be made subject to
the right of any settler on such lands
who makes entry within sixty days
from the filling of the list in your of
1 fee.
10. When an entry embraces un-
surveyed lands, or embraces a tract
which forms a fractional part of a
quarter quarter section (forty acres),
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