| Show tuh fuh tur it i 55 NEW lahd LAND L LAWS A WS following purport to be two import afif laws C dand mim VIM at the like late lato session acon i P 0 i r J 7 KU 1 V exact CT to provide for the kaoo beh bert bari t lis iks f ce aud add territories ase e it enacted enact edt edi by the theW enace Senate and afre of presenta wf vf the states of america in iti jeon icon on gregs gress assembled that it shall be i lawful boraby for any citizen citizen of the united states or arany I 1 any person of requisite rge age who may be entitled to become a citizen and who has fied filed his declaration to become such and lupon payment of twenty nive five cents per acre tefilo to filo a declaration under oath with the register and ri delven receiver of the land district in which any desert land is situated that he intends toi tol reclaim a tract of desert land landa lanzinot inot note exceeding one lection by conducting water upon the sam same e within the period of three years thereafter provided however that the right to the uso uco of water by the person so conducting the same onor on or to any tract of desert laud land of six hundred and forty acres acre s shall depend upon ubon gona bona fide prior appropriation and such right shalli shall mot exceed the amount of water actually appropriated I 1 and necessarily and anti for the purpose of jf irrigation and lind reclamation and all surplus water over and above such euch actual appropriation and use nse together with witti the water of ofa ail all lakes rivers riders and other sources of supply upon tho the public lands and not navigable and be held beld free for t the 6 appropriation and use of the pub licor in ing giand haud hand manufacturing purposes subject to existing rights said declaration shall describe particularly said section of land if surveyed and if it vershall ved shall shail describe the same as near lyns lyas outa oata survey At anytime within the period of three years yeara after fill filing said declaration upon making sat is factory proof edthe to the register and receiver of the reclamation of said land in the manner afore bald blid and upon the payment to the receiver of the additional sum of nere acre for a tract of land not exceeding six hundred lid aid nd forty acres to any ona one person a patent for the same shall ba be issued whim provided that no person be permitted to enter more than ohe one tract of land and not to I 1 exceed six hu hundred adred and forty acres which shall be in compact form sec see SEC seo 2 that all till lands exclusive e of timber ian lan lands asand and mineral lands which will not without produce artime agricultural clop crop shall le be deed deef deemed ned desert lands with inthe lne rae meaning aning of this act which fact shall be ascertained by proof of two or more credible witnesses under unde roath oath whose affidavits shall be filed bleden Jn the land offiel in jp which baid said t tract lre ire 1 of liand iland may be bp sit ait situated i that this asphall ae bhail only apply to a ud i take e effe effect eti eto 1 in u th the e chi ta tates te avada ind nd the territories tor lesof of W washington ashington aron nion montana tana TO itah wyoming wyom abiona lew low jew emco gack a nai I 1 uala vali dakota OR nd irid the determination tion of what may W desert land shai shah be subject t to the decision and gegala regular I 1 tiou tion of the commissioner of ot th the general land laud te march 3 1 ACT lug fhe ibe i 0 AT ions tons fons 16 fairn blics upon lipon th tho 0 ko ilo 1 do A c and dlf elf of ot I 1 me the felted states of america in coil coh I 1 assembled that the tiie exist r incorporation of tiny any ton town ion hon pon the public lands of the united eshaia es hali hair not be held hold to exclude clude km impre u i or hdm hom homestead estead mutry a gr greater eater quantity than thail alenty nive five hlin hundred dred and sixty j Es of landor orl oil the maximum maxima in area b be e entered as a town 1 rounder existing laws unless unies the diffract CIFfra re tract ct elat clat claimed medor or inc incorporated orp orated pach ch townsite town site bite shally shall including alia alla excess of t he the arda area above abodd joined 1 be actually settled improved and used for ess and municipal purpose purposes i 2 thab that where entries have heretofore i allowed lipoff pon poh lands rard yard rd ascertained to have havo been raced ed iii in the corporate limits of sni but which entries are or br Q to the satisfaction general mee office to in include i only va unoccupied lands of 0 the t tes tea not nob settled upon uron or municipal for il purpose purposes fi nor ed to io any y public use 0 of f such blid said t entries tries if regular irregular awall in all ail respects bre are hereby confirmed a and ard may be carried into patent latent provid ed that this bis c confirmation atlon sif shall shail al not 0 operate berate to re restrict brict the entry of any townsite to aB maller malier area than the maximum quantity of or land and which by reabon reason re ori of present phe eia eid population it may be 16 entitled to enter und under r sect loit 2369 2389 bf 0 the the Ee revised statutes t i st CO C 3 that thai the corporate limits of any town upon tho publia do m alo alp are shown or alleged t to include lands in excess of the area specified jh see seb section tion on one e of this act the commissioner of the general land office m may require the authorities of suc sue such h town and it shall be la lawful awful for them to elect what portion of said landa in compact form and embracing embracing the actual site of the municipal lial occupation oce u and nd lan improvement shalle shalie from preemption pre emption and tind ho homestead entry and thereafter tie the residue of such lands shall shail be iid open to diso disposal osal under the 1116 homestead and aud preemption pre emption laws and upon default owsald of said sald town author fales to make auch puch uch election within sixty days after notification by the com commissioner missioner he may dire direct t testimony respecting the actual 11 location and extent of said baidy improvements to be taken by the register bud and re 10 celver of the district in which such town tov ton v n may bo be situated and on receipt of the sameh emay det crmim and nd bet set oft off the proper site recording to section one of this act anc declare the remaining landsi lands open to settlement and entry uj under i ad er the homestead and preemption pre emption laws jaws and it shall be the duty of the secretary of each of the territories of the united states tp furnish he stir sur beyor general of the territory for the thie use tf of the united copy dulst duly eer certified titled of every act of the legislature of the territory inco incorporating po any city or towny towne town the same to be forwarded by such secretary in to the surveyor general within bab month from date of its approval p roval SEC 4 it shall be lawful for any town which has madeoy may hereafter make entry of less than the maximum quantity of land named in in section twenty three huddled hud hug dred and eighty nine of the revised statutes to toni maka ake abe such stich additional entry or entries bf contiguous tracts which may be occupied for town purposes asi as when added to td the en try or entries enerie s made vill will not exceed twenty nive five hundred and sixty aeres acre Provided that such additional entry shall not aaget together with witty rail fall be in excess exec df doo the area to chicly the town may be entitled at tiie tire date of the additional dit ional entry jy virtue of its population aa prescribe jp said S section twenty three hunched and eighty nine |
