| Show RECENT RE 6 ENT acts A OT S OF CONGRESS 00 LAND CLAIMS ail AIR act 0 to o confirm preemption pre emption and homestead entries of public lands within the tho limits of railroad grants in cases where such entries have been ina made do under the regulations ot of the tand department be it enacted by the senate and house of re representatives presenta tives of the united states of america in congress assembled that all pre emp tion and homestead enar entries es 0 or r entries in compliance with witt any an y lav law of the united sates states of the public lands land jn ju good faith falth by actual sett settlers leril upon tracts ol 01 land I 1 of not more than one hundred and sixty 8 acres each within the limits limit of angland any land grant prior to the time when notice of th e with drapal of the 1 lands ands embraced ed in such grant was rec received elved elVod at the local land office of the district in lands are situated or after their restoration to market by order of the general Lan dOffice and where the preemption pre emption and nd homestead laws nave have been complied with and proper proofs thereof have been made by the jai dal parties holding such much tracts or parcels theys they shail shall be confirmed confirm bd and patents for thes thos the tho same aind shall issue to the oie parties entitled thereto tiec EC 2 that when at the tho time of such withdrawal as aforesaid val tal valid id preemption pre emption emption or homestead h Q claims exis existed td upon any lands within the limits of bf any such budh grants which afterward were abandoned and under the decisions and rulings of or the land laud department were re preem pre em emp p tion or ad claimants who have hav complied with the laws governing ernin c q preemption pre emption or homestead entries and shall make the proper proofs required under such laws such puch entries shall be bd deemed valid and patents shall issue to the persons entitled thereto SEC 8 9 that all ali sueh such preemption pre emption and homestead entries which may have been made by permission of the land department or in pursuance of the rules and instructions thereof within the limits of any land grant at a time subsequent to expiration of such grant shall be deemed valid and a compliance with the tiie laws and the making of the proof reAb required ired shall entitle the thee holder of such claim to a patent A approved april 21 1876 1 AN ACI to amend amend the act entitled c d 1 anace kanaet An act entitled an act to nc oura tho the growth of timber on western ies les approved march thirteenth eighteen hundred and seventy tour be if it enacted by the senate and ana house souse of representatives of me the united states of amelca america in con gress assembled that section three of the act entitled an act to amend the act entitled an act to ehe 1 rage the growth of jimb timber on the western prairies pral fles is hereby amended by adding thereto the following further proviso provided further that whenever a party sarty hold hoid hol hoi ingia dingis claim under the provisions of this thia act or whenever making ak binal nal nai proof under the tiie same p r rava by two good and bredl ble bid witnesses that thi the trees planted and growing on said eaid claim were destroyed by grasshoppers perg during any one or of more years ears while hi holding 1 dg said sald claim said year or 3 years ears in which said trees were so destroyed shall not work any forfeiture of any of or the rights or privileges conferred by this act and the time allowed by this act in which to plant the trees and make final proof shall bo be extended the same numbe number r of years as tho trees planted on 04 arild claim clain waro were destroyed jn the pian plan ner specified finned in this pe that the planting ting of eeds nuts or ta uga nga shall be considered a compliance with the thie provisions of the thes timber culture act provided that such sueh seeds nuts or cuttings of the kind klad for tho the purpose Vir pose pobe contemplated in the original orlo act shall be properly and we well weil cli ell piari planted ted the ground properly prepared and cultivated ardd arid in case such seed nuts nut bior or cuttings should grow or ors should bould be dest destroyed byzio by the aho of gra shoppers grasshoppers or from other iti ili inevitable evl ovi table tabie accident t hat that ab abail ailbe allba be replanted or the vacancies within one year from the first planting provided further that parties claiming the benefit of ho tho provisions provis lons ions of this thia act shail shall prove by two good and credible witnesses that the tho ground was vas pr properly prepared and planted in such seeds nuts or cuttings cuttic eis CIS and were BO so des 68 troyed by inevitable accident in such y yean year ear ean d bec BEG 3 Thaties that it shall lall kail no not noh be necessary to tb plant trees seeds nuts or cuttings in one body provided the several bodies not exceeding four in number planted by measurement m on aggregate the amount required and lu in the time required by tile the original and amended act approved may AH AN ACT to extend the tho time to pre pro rapt ors on the public lands Bs it enacted by the senate and of representatives of the asic ISIc states icea itea of Ame america riddIA in cun oun congress g rem assembled that whenever aily any pie pre on public landeor lands landa or indian reservations shall shail proof at nt the local land office under rules and regulations i to be lir prescribed by the secretary of the interior that the crops upon the lands occupied by br him have bave been destroyed by kras iras grasshoppers shoppers within two years prior priar to tho the pa passage of this act tile the time wherein such uch pre preemptor emptor is required to make final proof land Cand abid payments kaa lla la hereby extended two years approved may ahi ali ACT to amend an aca act rqn the neile relle oot fot certain seft settlers lers on tie the tre public hands finds approved 11 ei dece december aber twenty olg eighth ti eish elsh tt teen S 4 hundred and a and J aia aim aja t for other C her pur purposes poses i by lle senate and bouse house of of 0 f the um United ted fed St states alps of america in oon con gross assembled that all the rights and privileges granted by an act for the relief of certain settlers on the public lands approved december twenty G eight ight one thousand eight hundred and seventy four foun are hereby efte extended ride d for one year after the expiration of the time named in said act and all the rights and privileges extended by ulis this act not to homestead and pre emp tion settler bettler jaball shall bhail apply to and include the settlers under an act net entitled an act to enco euco encourage urno urao the I 1 ewt growth ot timber on western pralle prairies 0 1 march third le 4 approved eighteen hundred and so seventy ve nty three and the acts amendatory thereof approved june 19 1876 |
