Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-03-10
Board of Review.

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The appropriation of $4,000 to per
NIT DR.. Rittman to continue his re.
search and experimental work with
petroleum and natural gas.
The creation of a board OF Review in
land cases, in the Office Of the stlre.
tary of the interior.
The reduction OF the appropriation
for the payment of war pensions by
SIG, 900, 900 over that of two years
ago.
The act authorizing the president
to provide a method for opening lands
restored fro preservation or withdraw
al. =
Fort eerthold Reservation.
The law authorizing the opening to
entry of a portion Of the Fort Ber-
thold Indian reservation, In North Da.
kota.
The creation of the Rocky Mountain
Park, near Denver, Col, and the grant
ing of public lands to the city of Den.
yer for public parks.
The validating of locations of de-.
posts of phosphate rock heretofore
made in good faith under the placer
mining laws. si
The act allowing the secretary of
the interior to withdraw lands within
reclamation projects for public play
grounds, public parks and community
centerS.
Homestead Laws Changed.
The act allowing the husband to Sc.
lect the residence for both parties In
cases Of intelmsrr!age among home.
steaders. ,
Allowing division into two parts of
the five-month absence privilege of
the three-year homestead law.
The law allowing a homestead en-
trywonan to perfect her claim, al
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.
Validating entries under the enlarg-
ed homestead law in cases where par
ties had partially exhausted their 160-
acre homestead rights.
The law providing for reorganiza.
ton of the force in the patent Office,
for the purpose of not only keeping
up 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.
Medical Relief.
The continuance of appropriations
made last year for the first time, for
encouragement by the. bureau of edu.
cation of school and home gardening
and Investigation of rural and indus
trial education, and the appropriation
of $25, 900 for medical relief Of the
Indians in Alaska.
Appropriations of 100000 for inves-'
legations in connection with Western
irrigation agriculture, available for in.
vestigations on reclamation projects;
and a $4,000 to enable the Secretary
Of Agriculture to encourage and aid
in. the agricultural development of
government reclamation projects.
Settlers Aided. @
The act for the relief of settlers on
the Flathead Indian reservation, Mon
tana, permitting the issue of patents
before full payment of water rights,
and allowing assignment of home
steads after proof of residence. i'm.
provement and cultivation.
Providing funds for the payment OF
reclamation charges on the portions
of the Yuma reclamation project own
ed by Indians.
Appropriating 100000 for the COIL
.tinuance of work on the construction
Of the Flathead Indian reclamation
in Montana; $4,000 for the
Blackfeet project in Montana, and $780,
600 for the Fort Peck projecti in Mont
ina; allowing the secretary to con-
tract for water rights from the pro-
posed Lawton project, Oklahoma, for
the irrigation of 900 acres at the Fort
Still Indian school, and allotting $780,
900 for providing a free water supply
for the Indian lands under the Yakima
Indian reservation.