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Show A recent decision of the Assistant Secretary of the Interior defines what constitutes a quarter section of land. The case was brought out in a timber culture entry made In the Denver, Colorado, Col-orado, land district by Jas. C. Gorman. Following is the conclusion to which the assistant secretary arrives: "It Is now the established opinion of this department de-partment that under this language an entry may be mide of a i u irter se.-.tlon as It is found surveyed without ref jrencs to Its area or the area of tho section. The pre-emption liw pro-vid5sthat pro-vid5sthat au entry may be made of any number num-ber of acres not exceeding wo or a quarter section. sec-tion. This language also is held by ths department de-partment to authorize an entry of technical quarter section without regard to its actual area. Following the spirit of these rulings the assistant secretary Bays hi finds no dim-culty dim-culty In concluding that the words of the tlm-ber-culture law should re?eira a like construction. construc-tion. The commissioner's decision Is accordingly accord-ingly reversed." |