Show miscellaneous LAWS concerning LAND REGISTERS AND RECEIVERS FEES SEC 2238 registers mid aad receivers e rs in addition to their salaries shall a I 1 be allowed each the follow following 1139 lilg fees and commissions namely first ak A fee of one dollar for each eaph declaratory statement filed and for services in acting on preemption M tion tiou claims second Pe cond A commission of one per on all moneys received at each receivers receive es office third A commission to be paid by the homestead applicant at the time of entry of one per on the cash price as fixed by law of the land applied for and a like commission when the claim ia is finally established and the certificate certin cate issued as the basis of a a patent fourth the same commission OB on lands lards entered under any law to encourage the growth of timber on western prairies as allowed when the like quantity of land is entered with money fifth for locating military bounty land warrants issued since the eleventh day of february elgh eighteen hundred and forty seven and for locating agricultural college land scrip the same commission to be paid by the holder or assignee of each warrantor warrant or scrip as is allowed for sales of the public lands for cash at the rate of one dollar and twenty five cents per acre sixth A fee in donation cases of five nive dollars for each final certificate for one hundred aud and sixty acres of land ten dollars for three hundred and twenty acres and fifteen dollars for six hundred and forty acres acres seventh in the location of lands by states and corporations under grants from congress for railroads and other purposes except for agricultural colleges a fee of one dollar for each final location of one hundred and sixty acres to be paid by the state or corporation making such locati location or eighth A kee iee fee nee of five dollars per diem them for superintending super intending public land sales at their respective offices and ang to each receiver mileage in going and returning from depositing the public moneys received by him ninth A fee of five dollars for filing and acting upon each application for patent or adverse claim filed for mineral lands to by the respective parties tenth registers and receivers are allowed jointly at the rate of fifteen cents per hundred words for testimony reduced by them to writing for claimants in establishing preemption pre emption and homestead rights eleventh Eleven tb A like fee as provided in the preceding subdivision when such writing esdone ia done in the land office in establishing claims for mineral lands twelfth registers and receivers in california oregon Ww washington hington nevada colorado idaho new mexico arizona utah wyoming and montana a are re each entitled to collect and recel receive ve fifty per c an the fees and commissions provided for in the first third and tenth subdivisions gions of this section SEC 2239 2230 the register for an any consolidated land lanti district in a addi d w to the feea fees now allowed by law shall be entitled to charge and receive for making transcripts for individuals or furnishing any other record information respecting public lic ilc lands or land titles in his consolidated soli dated land district such fees as are properly authorized by the tarifa tariff existing in the local courts of his district and the receiver shall receive his equal share of buch such bu ch fees and it shall bo be his duty to aid the regi register in the preparation of the transcripts or giving the desired record information Jn formation SEC 2216 2246 th the register reg lster ister or receiver is authorize dand it shall be their duty to administer any oath required by lawor law or the instructions of the general Gene ralLand ijane office in connection with the entry or purchase of any tra tract ct of the public lands but he shall not charge or receive directly or indirectly any compensation for administering such oath SEC BEC 2247 if nany many any person applies to any register to enter any land whatever and the register knowingly angly and falsely informs the person so applying that the tho same has already been entered and refuses to permit the person BO eo applying to enter the same saine such register shall be hable fable to the person so applying 11 nor for or nive five dollars for each acro aero of land janil which the tho person so po applying offered to enter to be recovered by action of debt in any court of record having j jurisdiction of the amount MINERAL LANDS 1 I WATER RIGHTS SEC 2339 whenever by priority of f possession ri rights nights 9 luts lats to the use of water for ml mining ning agricultural manufacturing or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local custom customs laws and the decisions of courts court the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purpose herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed but buts whenever any person in the construction of any ditch or canal injures or damages the possession of any settler on the public domain the nar party co committing such injury or damage a age shall be liable to the party injured red for such injury orka orAa or damage mage SEC bec EC 2340 40 all patents granted or p preemption pre ree re e emption mp tion or homesteads allowed hall shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights or rights to ditches and reservoirs connection with such water rights as may have been acquired under or recognized by the preceding section SEC 2341 wherever rever upon the ands lands heretofore designated as mineral lands which have been excluded from survey and sale there have lave been homesteads made by citizens of the united states or persons who have declared their indention te 0 n to become citizens which homesteads have been made improved and used for agricultural purposes and upon which there have been no valuable mines of gold silver cinnabar or copper discovered and which are properly agricultural lancto lands the settlers or owners of such homesteads meat eads shall have a right of preemption pre emption thereto and shall be entitled to purchase the same at the price of one dollar and twenty twe pty apty nive five cents per acre and in quantity not to exceed one hundred and sixty acres or they may avail themselves of the provisions of chapter nive five f ive lve of this title relating to homesteads SEC bec SY io 2342 upon the survey of the lands lad described in the preceding section the secretary of th the interior may designate and set apart such portions of the sam same 0 as are clearly agricultural lands ch lands shall thereafter be sub subject jeet deet to emption and sale as other pub ire bre ile lie c lands ands and be subject to all the laws and regulations applicable to the same SEC 2347 every person above the age of twenty one years who is a citizen of the united states or who has declared his intention to become such or any association of persons dersons severally qualified ave shall ball upon application to the register of the proper land office have the right to enter by legal subdivisions any quantity of vacant coal lands of the united states not otherwise appropriated or reserved by competent authority not exceeding x one hundred and sixty acre acres s to such individual person or three hundred and twenty acres to such association upon payment to the receiver r of not less than ten dollars per acre for such lands where the same shall be situated more than fifteen miles from any completed railroad and not less than twenty dollars per acre for such lands as shall be within fifteen te en miles road PATENTS adjudications SEC 2418 where i re patents for bublie ablio lands have been or may be issued issue ad in n pursuance of any law of the united states to a person who had died or hereafter dies before the date of such patent the title to the land designated therein shall 1 inure to and become vested in tb the heirs devisees devi sees or assignees of such deceased patentee as if the patent had issued to the deceased person during life SEC 2450 the commissioner of the tile general tand liand office is authorized to decide upon principles of equity and justice as recognized in courts of equity and in accordance with regulations to be settled b by y the secretary of the tre treasury sury th the e attorney general and the commissioner conjointly consistently with such principles all cases 0 of f suspended entries of public lands jaud s anu and and of suspended preemption pre emption land claims and to adjudge in what 1 t cases patents shall issue uton t the be same SEC BEC 2451 every such adjudication shall be approved by the secretary of the treasury Tre aspry and the at torney general acting as a board and shall operate only to divest the united states of the title of the lands embraced thereby without prejudice to the rights of conflicting claimants SEC 2453 the commissioner shall arrange his decisions into two C lasses classes the first class to embrace 1 I ail all II 11 such cases of equity as may be fi nally finally confirmed by the aud and the second plass to embrace all gu buch auch ch cases as the board reject and decide to be invalid SEC 2451 2454 for all lands covered by claims which whichard chare are placed in tha the first class patents shall issue to the claimants and all lands embrace embraced d by claims placed in the second class shall ipso facto revert to and become part of the public domain SEC 2456 where patents have been already issued on entries which are confirmed by the off meers officers who are constituted the board of adjudication the commissioner of the general land office upon the canceling of the outstanding patent is authorized to issue a new patent 3 on such confirmation to the person erso thee who made the entry his heirs air or assigns SEC BEO 2457 the preceding provi biens from section twenty four hu hundred n and fifty to section twenty y four hundred and nifty fifty six sir inclusive shall be applicable to all cases of suspended e entries atri es a and nd lo 10 locations C io no which have arisen in the G land office since the twenty sixth day of june eighteen hundred and nifty fifty six aix as wi well as to all cases of a similar kind which may here lere hereafter thereafter after occur embracing as well locations under bounty land warrants a as ordinary entries or sales include including ing homestead entries and preemption pre emption location locations or cases where the law has been substantially complied compiled with and the error or informality arose from ignorance accident or mistake which is satisfactorily explained pla ined and where the rights of no other claimant or preemptor pre emptor are prejudiced or where there is no adverse claim elmber TIMBER CULTURE BEC SEC 2161 2464 every person who plants protects and keeps in a healthy growing condition for ten years forty acres of timber the trees thereon not being more than twelve feet apart each way on any ter section of any of the public lands shall be entitled to a patent tor lor the whole of buch such quarter section at the expiration of the ten years yeara on making proof of such fact by not less than two credible witnesses provided that only one quarter in any section shall be thus granted SEC 2465 every person applying for the benefit of the preceding section shall upon application to the register of the land office in which he is about to make such entry make affidavit before 1 the he register or receiver that such entry is made for the cultivation of timi ber her and upon filing his affidavit with the register and receiver and on payment of ten dollars he shall be permitted to enter the quantity of land specified SEC 2466 2166 no certificate shall b be e given or patent issued u until n til the expiration of at least lea iea stten ten years from the dade date of 8 such uc h entry such and if at the expiration on of such sueh time or at any time w within three years thereafter the person making suc sue such h entry or if it he be dead his h heir elra or legal representatives shall shail prove by two credible witnesses th that at he be has planted and for noti note less than ten years has cultivated ted and protected such quantity and ano character of timber he be shall obal receive the patent for such quarter section of land SEC 2467 if at any time timo atter ater the filing of of such affidavit and prior to the issuing of the aptt patent ent for the land it is proved after due duo notice to the party maki makl making D g such uch entry and claiming to cultivate suh such timber to the satisfaction on of the register of the he land office that such person has abandoned or fall fail ed to cultivate protect and keep heeg lol iol in lot good condition such timber then an and d in that event the IM land shall revert to the united unita unit d states SEC 2468 no land acquired under the provisions of the four pre proceeding sections shallin any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the issuing of a patent united states revised statutes |