Show JAL1JlOBNIA CONGRESS MEN 1 What They Gave Tried to do 4 lor Their State Washington 11Sincl the opening t open-ing of the present Congress the fol lowing bills of interest to California have been introduced and l referred to the public lauds committee By Rosecrans to relinquish the title of the United States to property snow s-now in p sseosion of the trustees of the Ladies Seamens Friends Society So-ciety to the state of California By Berry granting to California r 5 per cent of the net proceeds of the state By Converse of Ohio authorizing < the President to reserve from the state and set apart as public parka such tracts or parcels of land in which are growing red wood and big trees not exceeding in an aggregate ag-gregate two townships of lands By Page providing that all money 1 derived from the sale of public lands donated for college purposes be invested and constituted a perpetual per-petual fund for the support mainlet ance and endowment of a college for instruction in 3 agriculture and mechanic arts By Mr Page to authorize the secretary of the interior to maKe an allowance of rent from United States land offices Page for the relief of homestead settlers on public lands to allow such settlers time to file homestead I applications and perfect original = entry as now allowed settlers under the preemption law A bill was introduced by Page 4 providing for the repayment < fees purchase money and commissions on entries of public land afterwards i after-wards found to be void by innocent persons n TI j JtL f n X > j Page prove ing that fees ai lowed registers ar di eceivers of public pub-lic lands for reducing to writing t testimony for claimants in establishing establish-ing preemption end homestead right and mineral entries shall not be considered in the deterllJae of the maximum of compensation of said offices By Rosecrans granting the right I of way to the San Francisco Ocean Shore Railway Company i across Presido Military Reservation and Black Point j By Rosecrans to adjust the claims of owners of land without the limits of Klamath Indian Reservation in the state of Oregon providing that upon delivery to the commission of thegeneral land office of a deed con veying to the United states all right title and interest of the Oregon Cen Military Wagon Road Company Com-pany to lands Within the reservation conveyed to said company by act of 1864 the commissioner shall issue land scrip to the California and Oregon Land Company By Berry providing for land scrip I compensation to A P Jackson Jas Wood C S Fay A B MeachamfJ M Gapen James McCoy M B TacketC H GrahamW H Turner N WRichardson and Philip Palmer Pal-mer for lands of which they were t deprived by process of law by the existence of paramount title to their lands when they were patented to 7 them By Rose rms to extend two years the time for making proof and payment on desert land entries under un-der the act of 77 when failure results re-sults from want of water or other causes not prejudical to the good faith of the party making the entry By Berry Page Pacheco and Rosecrans to enable the state to take other lands in lieu of the sixteenth six-teenth and thirysixth sections found to mineral lands s Page providing that all actual settlers on lands within the limits of the late Monagelmos ranch be authoriled to enter these lands and receive patents therefore under the preemption and homestead laws By Pacheco known as the brush lence bill providing that the occupation occu-pation or inclosure of any tract of i surveyed or unsurveyed public lands in larger quantity than was authorized by law shall not prevent the entry thereon by one duly qualified qual-ified and intending in good faith to acquire title under any law of the United States but where such tract has been enclosed appropriated or is occupied for the purpose of acquiring ac-quiring title thereto under any law of the United States the occupation shall be held valid for such lesser quantity as occupant is authorized by law to acquire provided the occupant oc-cupant or several occupant if more than one shall in ten days after file a written document designating the r metes and bounds of such lesser i quantity by well defined marks that in case of neglect or refusal to do so such occupant be deemed a tress passer and the whole tract may be entered on by persons duly qualified and intending in good faith to acquire ac-quire title under any law of the United States and such demand or neglect or refusal shall be held to bar recovery in any action brought I against any person so entering the act not tn gnnl to anhnnl atlnHnn pp y u oo sec or lands taken in good faith under any grant ot the United States Of these bills only the two last mentioned have been acted on by s the committee these two are on the calendar of the House bnt it is doubtful it they can be passed this session j |