East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-03-11

expended on reclamation work in
1915.
Authorization OF new BUILDING
for the interior department. estimat-
ed to cost s2.5OO.OOO. Of which 81
500 900 is appropriated this year. This
new building 10 be erected at r and
Eighteenth streets. Washington, Will
contain quarters for all the bureaus
OF the department except the patent
office, the bureau OF education ana
the pension bureau.
An appropriation Of 100000 for
the construction Of new laboratories
for the bureau OF mines at Pitts
burg.
The appropriation Of $4,000 to
permit DR.. Rittman to continue MS
research and experimental work with
petroleum and natural gas.
The creation OF board OF review
In land cases. in the office OF the
secretary OF the interior.
The reduction OF the appropriation
for the payment OF war pensions by
SIG, 100000 over that OF two years
ago.
The act authorizing the president
to provide method for opening
lands restored from reservation or
withdrawal.
The law authorizing the opening
10 entry Of a portion Of the Fort
Berthold Indian reservation, in North
Dakota.
The creation Of the Rocky Noun
tain Park, near Denver. Colo, and
the granting Of public lands to the
city of Denver for public parks.
The validating OF locations Of de-
pusits of phosphate rock heretofore
made in good faith under the placer
mining laws.
The act allowing the secretary Of
the interior to withdraw lands with
in reclamation projects for public
Fairgrounds, public parks and COM
munity centers.
The act allowing the husband to
select the residence for both parties
in cases OF intermarriage among
homesteaders.
Allowing the division into two parts
of the five month absence privilege
of the three-year homestead law.
The law allowing a homestead en-
trywoman TO perfect her claim, ale
though she may lose her citizenship
by marrying an alien.
Allowing the deserted wife Of a
homesteader to submit proof on his
claim and receive patent in her own
name.
Extending to South Dakota a part
of the enlarged homestead law.
Validating entries under the en-
larged homestead law in cases where
parties had partially exhausted their
lsO-acre homestead rights.
The law providing for reorganiza-
ton of the force in the patent office,
for the purpose Of not only keeping
I'D with the increasing work Of the
office. but of minimizing the number
Of pending cases in the office, which
has already been greatly reduced un
der the present administration.
The continuance of appropriations
made last year for the first time for
announcement of the bureau of ed
ucation of school and home garden
ing and investigation of rural and In
dastrial education. and the appro-
priation of $4,000 for medical relief
OF the Indians in Alaska.
Appropriations of $4,000 for In
vestigations in connection with west
ern irrigation agriculture, partly
available for investigations on rec
lamation projects; and Of $4,000 10
enable the secretary of agriculture 10
encourage and aid in the agricultur-
al development of government recla-
nation projects.
The act for the relief Of settlers on
the Flathead Indian reservation
Montant. permitting the issue OF pat
ents before full payment of water
rights. and allowing assignment OF
homesteads after proof OF residence
Improvement and cultivation.
Providing funds for the payment OF
reclamation charges on the portions
of the Yuma reclamation project
owned by Indians.
Appropriating 100000 for the
continuance of work on the eonstruc-
ton of the Flathead Indian reelama-
ton project in Montana: $4,000 tor
the Blackfeet project in Montana, ana
$4,000 for the Fort Peck project IN
Montana; allowing the secretary to
contract for water rights from the
proposed Lawton project Oklahoma
for the irrlgating of 500 acres at the
Fort sill Indian school, and allotung
se35,OOO for providing a free water
supply for the Indian lands under
the Yakima reservation.
Authorizing the government 70
spend 100000 in protecting lands
and property in the Imperial Valley
against injury from overflow OF the
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