| Show LAWS concerning LAND lahd passed Pi essed during the last session of congress fan tan AN ACT providing for the tho sale of saline lands t be abet it enacted by the senate and abas house of of the U united states of america in congress assembled that whenever it be made to appear to the register and the receiver of any land office of the united state states s that any lands within their district are saline in character it shall shail be theau ty of said register and eald baid receiver under the regulations regula tlona tiona of the general land office to take testimony in reference to such lands landa to ascertain their true character and to report the same to the general land office and if upon ulon such testimony the commissioner of the general land office shall find that such lands are saline and incapable of being purchased under any of the laws of the united states relative to the public domain then and ia in such case such buch lands shall be offered for sale by public auction at the local land office of the district in which the same shall be situated under such regulations as shall bae prescribed by the commissioner of the general land office and sold to the highest bidder for cash at a price not less leas thau than one dollar and awen ty five cents per acre and in case said sald land lands fall fail to sell when so offered then the samo same shall shail be subject to private saie sale at such land office for cash at a price not less than one dollar and twenty five cents per acre in the same manner other lands of the united states are sold that the foregoing enactments shall not apply to any state or territory which has not had a grant of salines by act of congress nor to any auy state which may have had bad such grant until either the grant has been fully satisfied or the right of selection has hag expired by efflux of time but nothing in this act shall authorize the sale or convey ance of any title other than such sueh s uc as the united states has and the patents issued shall be in the form of a release and quitclaim quit claim of all title of the united states in euch n lands SEC seca 2 that all executive proclamations climati ons relating to the tho sales of public lands shall be published in only one newspaper the same be printed and published in the state or territory where the lands are situated and to be desi designated by the secretary of the inte inre bior approved january 12 1877 AN ACT to amend section twenty two hundred and ninety oneff one of the kenned Revised statutes ot of the united fc tates states in relation to proof required in homestead entries be it st enacted by the Senate enate and souse house of be presenta tives of the united states of america in congress assembled that the proof of residence occupation 3 or tion the affidavit of non alienate alienation on and the oath of allegiance required to be made by section twenty two hundred and ninety one of the re statutes may be made before the judge or in his absence before the clerk of any court of record of the county and state or district and Terri territory tord tori in which the lands are situated and if said lands are situated in any unorganized county such proof may be made in a similar manner in any adjacent county in said state or territory and the proof affidavit and oath when s sa made and duly subscribed shall havethe same force and effect aa as if made before the register or receiver of the proper land district and the same shall be transmitted by such judge or the clerk of his court 16 the register and the re celver ce iver lver with the fee and and charges allowed by law to him hird and the reg ister lster erand and receiver shall bo b entitled to the same fees for examining and r approving said testimony as lis are now allowed by law for taking the same SECTION 1 0 2 1 that if any witness making such proof or the said applicant making suc sue such sueh a affidavit davit or oath swears falsely as to any material aerial matter con contained ined in said proof affidavits or oaths the said false swearing being wilful and corrupt he shall be deemed guilty of perjury and shall be liable to the same pains and penalties a as 1 f he the had bad sworn falsely before h register ft approved march 3 I 1 im an act lor for tho relief ol 01 settlers on th alio 0 public lands lauds under tho the preemption pre emption laws latys be it ena era enacted acte by N y lie senate ebule of representatives of the united states of america in congress assembled that when an any y person who hab hag made a settlement lerson person oh n the public lands under the pre emption laws shall change his filing to that for a homestead entry the time required to perfect his title under the homestead laws shall be computed from the date ef of his original settlement made under the preemption pre emption laws approved march 3 1877 AN ACT for the relief relict of certain settlers on the public lands lauds be it enacted by the senate and boube bouse of representatives of the united states of america in congress assembled that it shall be lawful for and preemption settlers on the public lands or preemption pre emption settlers on indian reservations where crops were destroyed or seriously injured by grasshoppers in the year eighteen hundred and seventy seven to leave and be absent fro from m said lands until the first day of october eighteen hundred and seventy eight under buch euch rules and regulations as to proof of the same bame as 88 the commissioner of tha the general land office shall prescribe and where such grasshoppers shall reappear re appear in eighteen hundred and berenty eight to th elike destruction or injury of crops the right to leave and be absent as aforesaid shall continue to october arst eighteen hundred and seventy nine anu ana during such absence no adverse ad verse rights shall attach to said eaid lands lauds such settlers being allowed an owed to resume and perfect their settlement as though no such absence had occurred SEO SEC 2 that the time for making forsaking final proof and payment by preempt tors whose crops have been destroyed or injured as aforesaid is hereby extended for one year after the expiration pi ration of the terni of absence provided for in the first section of this act and all the rights tights and privileges extended by this thia act to homestead and preemption pre emption settlers shall apply to and include the settlers under an act entitle dAn act to encourage the growth of timber on NY estern pharies pr aries approved march U third ea eighteen eteen hundred and seven ty three and the acts amendatory thereof approved march 3 1877 grave charges against governor axtell washington 29 A series of extremely grave charges against gov axtell of new mexico were filed in the interior department today to day and will be made the tha subject of immediate examination they are presented by W B botchett mgt Met chett professedly fes sedly in ift behalf of the people of colfax county and are privately private IV backed bv by numerous attorneys and parties interested in the famous maxwell grant which is claimed to cover the whole of that county this grant is for an enormous area of and land nearly ninety five miles long and twenty four miles wide and was in general 9 beneral terms confirmed co by acts of congress in 1860 but the issuance of 0 f the patent paten t has been successfully opposed from year to year by various parties in new N a W mexico in whose hite bite interests rests it 16 is now claimed gov axtell has wrongfully and corruptly exercised the powers of his official position the charges assert that axtell during his five months lealden residence ce in utah while governor of that territory Terri tor ton y secretly became a bishop in the mormon mor mon church and that immediately upon his transfer to new mexico he set about contriving and executing meas measures urea to oppress and drive ott olt the dutch colonists had other settlers from maxwell and other grants with a view to reducing the grants to public do main and having the country settled and owned by mormons cormons Mor mons extracts are quoted from private letters published in the salt lake berald herald sep esth 1875 signed el obispo expressing regret that the premature move movement meni indian raid on the gentile town of corinne had bad prevented the success of a similar plan for the extermination of the gentiles in certain parts of new mexico and axtell is distinctly distin cly ely and po positively sit ively charged with the authorship ah lp of this letter the charges then assert that axtell and other members of the ring harassed the Dutch settlers with illegal tax levies ae es ejectment suits and criminal indictment indictments of all sorts and procured the enactment of law laws removing the courts tho publio public wishes to bo be managed like lae a woman mune mu one ne must say eay nothing toh tow to it but what it likes to hear |
