Military bounty land warrants and Porterfield warrants: For locating a 160-acre warrant.. $4.00 3.00 2.00 1.50 1.00 No fees are chargeable on warrants issued prior to February 11, 1847. Revolutionary bounty-land scrip is received and accounted for as cash, and no fee is chargeable to parties presenting such scrip. Sales of public lands: The commissions of registers and receivers on cash sales of the public lands are paid by the United States, and no fees or commissions on such sales are chargeable to the purchasers, except in cases of homestead entries on ceded Indian reservations affected by the act of May 17, 1900 (31 Stat. 179), and commuted under the provisions of the act of January 26, 1901 (31 Stat. 740), in which cases the entryman is required to pay a commission of 2 per cent on the cash price of the land (31 L. D. 106). In cases of timber sales in Alaska the Comptroller of the Treasury has held that the sale of timber is a sale of land and that the register and receiver are entitled to 14 per cent each commissions on sales of such timber. State selections: For each final location of 160 acres (or fraction thereof) under any grant of Congress to States (except for agricultural colleges) ___ --- $2.00 No fees are chargeable on State swamp-land selections, but a fee of $2 is to be collected on each location of 160 acres, or fraction thereof, made with swampland indemnity certificates. Railroad selections: For each final location of 160 acres (or fraction thereof) by railroad or other corporations Agricultural-college scrip: For each piece of agricultural-college scrip located___ Private-land scrip, Valentine scrip: For each piece of scrip filed on unsurveyed lands___ Supreme Court scrip: $2.00 $4.00 $1.00 1.00 No fees or commissions are allowed on the location of Supreme Court scrip, nor on the location of Indian scrip or other private-land scrip, except as specifically provided for by law or instructions. Reducing testimony to writing: Fees for reducing testimony to writing are allowed at the rate of 221 cents for each 100 words, in the following cases: (1) Making final proof in preemption cases when the writing is done in the local land office. (2) Making final proof in commuted and noncommuted homestead and timber culture cases, irrespective of the fact whether or not the writing is done in the local land office, as the fees are allowed for "examining and approving the proof." (3) In establishing claims to mineral lands. However, at present there is no proof in mineral lands which would be reduced to writing in the local land office and entitling the collection of testimony fees. (4) In establishing claims to timber and stone lands. (5) In hearings before registers and receivers in contest cases. (6) In making final proof on desert-land claims, when the testimony is reduced to writing in the local land offices. Transcripts from records: Registers and receivers are entitled to charge at the rate of 10 cents per 100 words for making transcripts of their records for individuals. Plats and diagrams: Under the second section of the act of March 3, 1883, authorizing a charge to be made for plats, diagrams, etc., the fees for the same are hereby fixed as follows: For a diagram showing entries only-- $1.00 For a township plat showing entries, names of claimants, and character of entry 2.00 For a township plat showing entries, names of claimants, character of entry, and number 3.00 For a township plat showing entries, names of claimants, character of entry, number and date of filing or entry, together with topography, etc. 4.00 Lists for taxation purposes: For lists of lands sold, which are construed to mean lists of final certifilcates furnished State or territorial authorities for the purposes of taxation, 10 cents per entry. Cancellation fees: For giving notices to contestants of the cancellation of any homestead, preemption, or timber-culture entry.......... $1.00 In Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, the following fees and commissions are allowed by law to registers and receivers: Declaratory statements: Preemption declaratory statement-- Soldiers and sailors' homestead declaratory statement.. Reservoir declaratory statement (act Jan. 13, 1897) – Mineral applications and adverse claims: For filing and acting upon each application for a patent--. $2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 $10.00 10.00 Timber and stone applications: For filing and acting upon each application to purchase timber and stone lands--- $10.00 NOTE. These commissions must be tendered with the homestead proof, together with testimony fees at 15 cents per hundred words. The commissions are not earned unless the proof is approved. Military bounty land warrants and Porterfield warrants: For each final location of 160 acres (or fraction thereof) under any grant of Congress to States (except for agricultural colleges) – $2.00 No fees are chargeable on State swamp-land selections, but a fee of $2 is to be collected on each location of 160 acres or fraction thereof made with swampland indemnity certificates. Railroad and other selections: For each final location of 160 acres (or fraction thereof) by railroad or other corporations___ Agricultural college scrip: For each piece of agricultural college scrip located___ Private land scrip, Valentine scrip: For each piece of scrip filed on unsurveyed lands. Supreme Court scrip: $2.00 $4.00 $1.00 1.00 No fees or commissions are allowed on the locations of Supreme Court scrip nor on the location of Indian scrip or other private land scrip, except as specifically provided for by law and instructions. Reducing testimony to writing: Fees for reducing testimony to writing are allowed at the rate of 15 cents per 100 words. Transcripts from records: Registers and receivers are entitled to charge at the rate of 10 cents per 100 words for making transcripts of their records for individuals. Plats and diagrams: Lists for taxation purposes, 10 cents per entry. The fees and commissions in connection with soldiers' additional homestead applications will be computed in the same manner as are ordinary homestead fees and commissions. The original fee and commissions and final commissions will be collected together at the same time, and must be applied before certificate issues. INDEX. Page. Abandoned military reservations, disposed of... Desert entries on, in Nevada__ Extension of time for payments on Fort Assinniboine Fort Bridger Reservation, Carey Act extended to 1302 5 75 13 July 25, 1866-Oregon & California Railroad grant...--- 356 July 27, 1866-Atlantic & Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroad 351 June 25, 1868-Time extended to Oregon & California Railroad Co___ 360 Extension of time to Oregon & California Railroad Co.. 361 349 May 31, 1870-Northern Pacific Railroad Co. to issue bonds. 349 June 28, 1870-Southern Pacific Railroad grant__. 354 March 3, 1871-Southern Pacific Railroad grant___ 355 April 20, 1871-Atlantic & Pacific Railroad authorized to issue bonds. 355 530 June 1, 1874-Dispossessed occupants. 202 June 6, 1874-Expenditures on certain mineral claims. February 11, 1875-Credit for expenditures on tunnel, mineral claim May 5, 1876-Missouri and Kansas not subject to mineral laws. 271 July 31, 1876-Survey of railroad lands. 377 March 1, 1877-California indemnity selections.. 545 June 19, 1878-Patents to be signed by clerk appointed by President__ 118 Director of Geological Survey to have no interest in land__. 120 191 Settlers on railroad lands... 383 July 1, 1879-Settlers on railroad lands in Missouri and Arkansas_ Preference right to successful contestant. Settlers given preference right of entry. Suits for trespass on timberlands__ Ute Indian lands__. June 16, 1880- Repayments School grant to Nevada___. 384 272 189 188 178 179 191 598 245 488 552 January 13, 1881-Settlers on restored railroad lands. 384 283 273 July 28, 1882-Umcompahgre and White River Ute lands. Proceeds of Indian reservations covered into Treasury_ July 5, 1884-Abandoned military reservations, disposition of.. 1 118 February 25, 1885-Unlawful occupancy of public lands 629 May 6, 1886-Settlers on railroad lands___ 385 July 6, 1886-Atlantic & Pacific Railroad forfeiture.. 356 July 10, 1886-Taxation of railroad lands......... 376 August 4, 1886-No fees to registers and receivers in excess of $3,000 484 209 March 3, 1887-Settlers on railroad lands_ 385 October 2, 1888-Storage reservoirs in arid regions____ 495 October 19, 1888-Indians may surrender patents and receive other 214 January 14, 1889-Chippewa Indian lands_. 247 February 16, 1889-Dead timber on Indian lands_ 214 February 22, 1889-Grant to Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, |