The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1912-05-30
IN IMPORTANT
NEW LAND LAW

No. ~.
registers and r. Receivers, United
= States land offices.
s;rs. Your attention is di
.,sted to the act of congress, ap-
..0yed March %, 1912 public
r 111. amending section 2455
wv s.Sised statutes of the United
Gates, to read as follows;
uBe it enacted by the senate
"a house of representatives OF
- United States of America in
..noress assembled, That section
,vspty-four hundred and fifty
i've Of the revised statutes of
No United States be amended to
read as follows:
D.Sec. 1855. 1t shall be law
Al for the commissioner of the
General land office to order into
market and sell at public auction
! tbe land office of the district
! which the land is situated, for
MT less than one dollar and
twenty-five cents AN acre, any
nated or disconnected tract or
MARCEL Of the public domain not
exceeding one-quarter section
which. in his Judgment it would
Be proper to expose for sale at
least thirty days notice by the
land officers of the district in
which such land may be situated ::
Provided, That any legal subdivi-
sions Of the public land, not ex-
feeding one-quarter section, the
greater part of which is noun
famous or too rough for cult
mtion, may, in the discretion of
said commissioner, be ordered in
| 10 the market and sold pursuant
| TO this act upon the application
Of any person who owns land or
|hdds a valid entry Of lands adj
pining such tract, regardless of
| the fact that such tract may not
| BE- isolated or disconnected with
| IN the meaning of this act: Pro
| Vided further, That this act shall
|nct defeat any vested right which
has already attached under any
pending entry or location
Approved, March %. 1922
The material change is found
/ in the first proviso, authorizing
the sale of legal subdivisions not
exceeding one-quarter section,
the greater part of which is
mountainous or too rough for cul-
tlyatlon, upon the application of
any person who owns or holds
valid entry of lands adjoining
such tract, and regardless of the
TACT that such tract may not be
actually isolated by the entry or
other disposition of surrounding
ands. 1t is left entirely to the
discretion of the commissioner of
The general land office to deter
NINE whether a tract shall be
sold, and it will not be practi-
cable to prescribe a set of rules
governing the conditions which
would render tract susceptible
V sale under the proviso. APP
pLeatlons will be disposed of by
you IN accordance with the isolat-
% tract regulations contained in
' of January 10, 1912,
NO. u (general) and No. 72 (Kin-
lald territory in Nebraska), ex-
' y That paragraph 7 of curcular
Nv Il and paragraph % of cir.
quar- No. 70 are not applicable,
aaa no tract within the territory
!, ~iected by the Kinkaid act in
:. exceeding 100 acres in
4ea, will be ordered into the
market under the first proviso
y section 2455. Applications
!; De made upon the forms pro-
'laed (4008B and A OOSC) and
printed In the curculars above
s'aed, properly modified as nee
, :: by the terms of the pro
=, 10y. In addition, the applicant
. .Ast furnish evidence of his own
! lSalp OF adjoining land, or that
) ss. noids a valid entry embracing
! ,a'Olnlng land, in connection with
, .ura entry he has fully met the
y, of law; also detailed
i uence as to the character of
! land applied for, the extent
- J which ,i it is cultivable, and the
l'lons which render the