Private sale. settlers. of the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior; and if not sold at such second offering for want of bidders, then the Secretary of the Interior may sell the same at private sale, for cash, at not less than the appraised value, nor less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre: ProRights of actual vided, That any settler who was in actual occupation of any portion of any such reservations prior to the location of such reservation, or settled thereon prior to January first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, in good faith for the purpose of securing a home and of entering the same under the general laws and has continued in such occupation to the present time, and is by law entitled to make a homestead entry shall be entitled to enter the land so occupied, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres in a body, according to the Government surveys and subdivisions: Provided further, That said lands were subject to entry under the public land laws at the time of their withdrawal * * sale. sale. buildings, SEC. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior shall cause any improvements, buildings, building materials, and other property which may be situate upon any such lands, subdivisions or lots not heretofore sold by the Appraisement United States authorities, to be appraised in the same etc., and public manner as hereinbefore provided for the appraisements of such lands, subdivisions, and lots, and shall cause the same, together with the tract or lot upon which they are Conditions of situate, to be sold at public sale, to the highest bidder for cash, at not less than the appraised value of such land and improvements, first giving the sixty days' notice as hereinbefore provided; or he may, in his discretion, cause the improvements to be sold separately, at public sale for cash, at not less than the appraised value, to be removed by the purchaser within such time as may be prescribed, first giving the sixty days' public notice before provided; and if in any case the lands and improvements, or the improvements separately, as the case may be, are not sold for want of bidders, then the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, cause the same to be reoffered for sale, at any subsequent time, in the same manner as above provided, or may cause the same to be sold at private sale for not less than the appraised value: ProLands first to be vided, That where buildings or improvements have been of buildings and heretofore sold by the United States authorities the land improvements. upon which such buildings or improvements are situate not exceeding the smallest subdivision or lot provided for by this act upon the reservation on which said buildings are situate shall be offered for sale to the purchaser of said improvements and buildings at the appraised value of the lands and if said purchaser shall fail for sixty days after notice to complete said purchase of lands the same shall be sold under the provisions of this act offered to owners vations in Flor SEC. 4. That the provisions of the act of August Military reser eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, relative to ida. military reservations in the State of Florida, and the sixth section of the act of June twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, relative to the sale of military sites be, and same are hereby, repealed. ing mineral de mineral land laws SEC. 5. Whenever any lands containing valuable min- Lands containeral deposits shall be vacated by the reduction or aban- posits subject to donment of any military reservation under the provi- of the United sions of this act, the same shall be disposed of exclusively States. under the mineral land laws of the United States. erection of SEC. 6. The Secretary of War shall have authority, in secretary of War may grant his discretion, to permit the extension of State, county, certain privileges; and Territorial roads across military reservations; to per-bridges, extension mit the landing of ferries, the erection of bridges thereon; of roads, etc. and permit cattle, sheep or other stock animals to be driven across such reservation, whenever in his judgment the same can be done without injury to the reservation or inconvenience to the military forces stationed thereon. Approved, July 5, 1884. (23 Stat., 103.) Extract from the sundry civil appropriation act, approved March 3, 1893 (27 Stat., 593). to mu Provided, That the President is hereby authorized by nicipal corpora proclamation to withhold from sale and grant for public tions. use to the municipal corporation in which the same is situated all or any portion of any abandoned military reservation not exceeding twenty acres in one place. An Act To provide for the opening of certain abandoned military reservations, and for other purposes. Lands opened Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, to entry. That all lands not already disposed of included within the limits of any abandoned military reservation heretofore placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior for disposition under the act approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, the disposal of which has not been provided for by a subsequent act of Congress, where the area exceeds five thousand acres, except such legal subdivisions as have Government improvements thereon, and except also such other parts as are now or may be reserved for some public use, are hereby opened to settlement under the public-land laws of the United States and a preference right of entry for a period of six months from the date of this act shall be given all bona fide settlers who are qualified to enter under the homestead law and have made improvements and are now residing upon any agricultural lands in said reservations, and for a period of six months from the date of settlement when that shall occur after the date of Preference homestead tlers. Payment. etc. set to this act: Provided, That persons who enter under the homestead law shall pay for such lands not less than the value heretofore or hereafter determined by appraisement, nor less than the price of the land at the time of the entry, and such payment may, at the option of the purchaser, be made in five equal installments, at times and at rates of interest to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior. Appraisements, SEC. 2. That nothing contained in this act shall be construed to suspend or to interfere with the operation of the said act approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as to all lands included in abandoned military reservations hereafter placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior for disposal, and all appraisements required by the first section of this act shall be in accordance with the provisions of said act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four. abandoned mili Approved, August 23, 1894. (28 Stat., 491.) An Act To amend and extend the provisions of an act entitled "An act to provide for the opening of certain abandoned military reservations, and for other purposes, ," approved August twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four. Settlement of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives tary reservations. of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the act approved August twentythird, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled "An act to provide for the opening of certain abandoned military reservations, and for other purposes," are hereby extended to all abandoned military reservations which were placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior under any law in force prior to the act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four. Preference homestead tlers extended. to set SEC. 2. That the preference right of entry given to actual settlers by the terms of the act to which this is an amendment shall, so far as the lands to which the provisions of said act are extended, take effect and continue for six months from the date of this amendatory act. Approved, February 15, 1895. (28 Stat., 664.) ALASKA. ALLOTMENTS.-Act of May 17, 1906 (34 Stat., 197)—Allot- COAL LANDS.-Act of June 6, 1900 (31 Stat., 658)-Coal-land Act of May 28, 1908 (35 Stat., 424)-Consolidation of claims lo- Act of October 20, 1914 (38 Stat., 741)-Leases of tracts not ex- MINERALS LANDS.—Act of May 17, 1884 (23 Stat., 26)—Min- Act of May 14, 1898 (30 Stat., 415)—Mining rights to citizens of Act of June 6, 1900 (31 Stat., 327, 329)-Instruments to be re- Act of March 2, 1907 (34 Stat., 1243)—$100 in annual improvements-Forfeiture Act of June 7, 1910 (36 Stat., 459)-Time for filing adverse claims. Act of August 1, 1912 (37 Stat., 242)-Placer claim not in excess MISSION SITES.-Act of June 6, 1900 (31 Stat., 330)—Re- Act of March 4, 1915 (38 Stat., 1100)-Use of materials from forest reserves SCHOOL GRANTS.-Act of March 4, 1915 (38 Stat., 1214)-Sections 16 and 36-Section 33 in Tanana Valley for agricultural college-Lieu selections-Leases-Mineral lands excepted.... SURVEYS.—Act of March 3, 1899 (30 Stat., 1098)—System of surveys extended to Alaska.. TIMBER.-Act of May 14, 1898 (30 Stat., 414)-Sale and use of timber... TOWN SITES.-Act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat., 1099)-Entry by trustee under Sec. 2387, R. S.. Act of June 6, 1900 (31 Stat., 332)—Jail and courthouse sites.. TRADE AND MANUFACTURING SITES.-Act of May 14, 1898 (30 Stat., 413)-Purchase of not exceeding 80 acres containing improvements-Navigable waters-Use of wharves and roadway-Suitable tracts along water front for use of natives-Procedure for patent-Adverse claim...... 9 Homestead allotments to na tives. ALLOTMENTS. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to allot homesteads Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and empowered, in his discretion and under such rules as he may prescribe, to allot not to exceed one hundred and sixty acres of nonmineral land in the district of Alaska to any Indian or Eskimo of full or mixed blood who resides in and is a native of said district, and who is the head of a family, or is twenty-one years of age; and the land so allotted shall be deemed the homestead of the allottee and his heirs in perpetuity, and shall be inalienable and nontaxPreference able until otherwise provided by Congress. Any person qualified for an allotment as aforesaid shall have the preference right to secure by allotment the nonmineral land occupied by him not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres. Allotments inalienable and nontaxable. rights. Coal-land laws extended to Alaska. Coal-land en. tries. veloped mineral lands. Approved, May 17, 1906 (34 Stat., 197). COAL LANDS. An Act To extend the coal-land laws to the district of Alaska. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the public-land laws of the United States are hereby extended to the district of Alaska as relate to coal lands, namely, sections twenty-three hundred and forty-seven to twenty-three hundred and fifty-two, inclusive, of the Revised Statures.1 Approved, June 6, 1900 (31 Stat., 658), An Act To amend an act entitled "An act to extend the coal-land laws Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person or association of persons qualified to make entry under the coal-land laws of the United States, who shall have opened or improved a coal mine or coal mines on any of the unsurveyed public lands of the United Location of de- States in the district of Alaska, may locate the lands upon which such mine or mines are situated, in rectangular tracts containing forty, eighty, or one hundred and sixty acres, with north and south boundary lines run according to the true meridian, by marking the four corners thereof with permanent monuments, so that the boundaries thereof may be readily and easily traced. And all such locators shall, within one year from the passage of this act, or Filing notice. within one year from making such location, file for record Boundaries. 1 Amended by the act of Apr. 28, 1904. |