ISOLATED TRACTS. See the Kinkaid Act under "Homesteads." Act of March 28, 1912 (37 Stat., 77)-Sale of isolated tracts-Mountainous or rough land. Act of April 30, 1912 (37 Stat., 105)-Surface of coal lands. An Act To amend section twenty-four hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to isolated tracts of public-land. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section twenty-four hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended to read as follows: Sales at auction rough lands to ad "SEC. 2455. It shall be lawful for the Commissioner Isolated tracts. of the General Land Office to order into market and sell authorized. at public auction, at the land office of the district in which the land is situated, for not less than one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre, any isolated or disconnected tract or parcel of the public domain not exceeding one-quarter section which, in his judgment, it would be proper to expose for sale after at least thirty days' notice by the land officers of the district in which such land may be situated: Provided, That any legal sub- Mountainous or divisions of the public land, not exceeding one-quarter joining owners. section, the greater part of which is mountainous or too rough for cultivation, may, in the discretion of said commissioner, be ordered into the market and sold pursuant to this act upon the application of any person who owns lands or holds a valid entry of lands adjoining such tract, regardless of the fact that such tract may not be isolated or disconnected within the meaning of this act: Provided further, That this act shall not defeat any vested right which has already attached under any pending entry or location." Approved, March 28, 1912 (37 Stat., 77). An Act To supplement the act of June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled "An act to provide for agricultural entries on coal lands." Vested rights. Disposal of surface of coal lands Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act unreserved public lands of the United States, exclusive of Alaska, to States which have been withdrawn or classified as coal lands or are valuable for coal shall, in addition to the classes of entries or filings described in the act of Congress 157 under isolated tract laws approved June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled "An act to provide for agricultural entries on coal lands," be subject to selection by the several States within whose limits the lands are situate, under grants made by Congress, and to disposition, in the disMay be sold cretion of the Secretary of the Interior, under the laws providing for the sale of isolated or disconnected tracts of public lands, but there shall be a reservation to the Reservation of United States of the coal in all such lands so selected or sold and of the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same in accordance with the provisions of said act of June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and ten, and such lands shall be subject to all the conditions and limitations of said act. coal. Approved, April 30, 1912 (37 Stat., 105). LAND DISTRICTS. Revised Statutes, Secs. 2248-2255-When land offices may be discontinued by the Secretary of the Interior-Continued Continued by the President-Change of boundaries-Allowance of rent and clerk hire............. Act of March 3, 1877 (19 Stat., 315)-Entry of land in States where no land offices. Act of August 5, 1892 (27 Stat., 368)-Consolidation of land offices by Secretary of Interior.. Page. 159 160 160 UNITED STATES REVISED STATUTES. When land by Secretary of the 5 S., 385. SEC. 2248. Whenever the quantity of public land re- office may be dismaining unsold in any land-district is reduced to a continued number of acres less than one hundred thousand, it shall Interior. by the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to discon- June 12, 1840, tinue the land-office of such district; and if any land in any such district remains unsold at the time of the discontinuance of a land-office, the same shall be subject to sale at some one of the existing land-offices most convenient to the district in which the land-office has been discontinued, of which the Secretary of the Interior shall give notice. When land terior. S., 455. SEC. 2249. The Secretary of the Interior may con- office may be continue any land-district in which is situated the seat of tinued by Secre government of any of the States, and may continue the tary of the Inland-office in such district, notwithstanding the quantity, Sept. 4, 1841, of land unsold in such district may not amount to one hundred thousand acres, when, in his opinion, such continuance is required by public convenience, or in order to close the land-system in such State. When landoffice may be an nexed to adjacent district by the Mch. 3, 1853, 10 S., 189. SEC. 2250. Whenever the cost of collecting the revenue from the sales of the public lands in any land-district is as much as one-third of the whole amount of revenue President. collected in such district, it may be lawful for the President, if, in his opinion, not incompatible with the public interest, to discontinue the land-office in such district, and to annex the same to some other adjoining landdistrict. Change of loca tion of land office by the President. Mch. 3, 1853, 1853, 10 S., 244. SEC. 2251. The President is authorized to change the location of the land-offices in the several land-districts established by law, and to relocate the same from time to time at such point in the district as he deems expedient. 10 S., 204: Mch. 3, SEC. 2252. Upon the recommendation of the Commis- Discontinuance sioner of the General Land-Office, approved by the the President. Secretary of the Interior, the President may order the, discontinuance of any land-office and the transfer of any of its business and archives to any other land-office within the same State or Territory. of land-office by May 30. 1862, 12 S., 409. 159 boundaries of the President. Change of SEC. 2253. The President is authorized to change and land-districts by re-establish the boundaries of land-districts whenever, June 29, 1870, in his opinion, the public interests will be subserved thereby, without authority to increase the number of land-offices or land-districts. 16 S., 171. original district in boundaries. 17 8., 192. Business of SEC. 2254. In case of the division of existing landcase of change of districts by the erection of new ones, or by a change of May 31, 1872, boundaries by the President, all business in such original districts shall be entertained and transacted without prejudice or change, until the offices in the new districts are duly opened by public announcement under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. All sales or disposals of the public lands heretofore regularly made at any land-office, after such lands have been made part of another district by any act of Congress, or by any act of the President, are confirmed, provided the same are free from conflict with prior valid rights. Allowance of office rent and offices. S., 131. SEC. 2255. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized clerk hire for con- to make a reasonable allowance for office-rent for each solidated land- consolidated land-office; and when satisfied of the necesFeb. 18, 1861, 12 sity therefor, to approve the employment by the register of one or more clerks, at a reasonable per-diem compensation, for such time as such clerical force is absolutely required to keep up the current public business, which clerical force shall be paid out of the surplus fees authorized to be charged by section twenty-two hundred and thirty-nine, if any, and if no surplus exists, then out of the appropriation for incidental expenses of district landoffices; but no clerk shall be so paid unless his employment has been first sanctioned by the Secretary of the Interior. Public lands in States where no of, etc. ACTS OF CONGRESS PASSED SUBSEQUENT TO THE REVISED STATUTES. Extract from the legislative appropriation act, approved March 3, 1877 (19 Stat., 315). That public lands situated in States in which there are land-offices; entry no land offices may be entered at the General Land Office, subject to the provisions of law touching the entry of public lands; and that the necessary proofs and affidavits required in such cases may be made before some officer competent to administer oaths, whose official character shall be duly certified by the clerk of a court of record; and moneys received by the Commissioner of the General Land Office for lands entered by cash entry shall be covered into the Treasury. Consolidation of land-offices. Extract from the sundry civil appropriation act, approved August 5, 1892 (27 Stat., 368). And it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to consolidate the district land offices where practicable and consistent with the public interests. LIEU SELECTIONS. See "Railroad Grants and Selections" and "State Grants Page. and Selections" 216, 316 Forest lieu selections.-Act of June 4, 1897 (30 Stat., 36)-Selections in lieu of lands within forest reserves... 161 162 Act of June 6, 1900 (31 Stat., 614) Selections confined to vacant surveyed, nonmineral lands.. Act of March 3, 1905 (33 Stat., 1264)-Repeals act of June 4, 1897, with certain exceptions.. 162 Indian lands.-Act of April 21, 1904 (33 Stat., 211) Selections in lieu of private lands over which an Indian reservation has been extended by Executive order......... 163 Railroad selections, general.-Act of June 22, 1874 (18 Stat., 194) Entries on railroad lands may be completed and company select lieu lands... 163 Act of August 29, 1890 (26 Stat., 369)-Act of June 22, 1874, extended to settlers having unrecorded entries... Act of July 1, 1902 (32 Stat., 733)-Same privileges to settlers on lands granted to wagon roads... Act of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat., 1007)-Indians having for five years occupied railroad lands in Arizona, New Mexico, or California Atlantic and Pacific railroad lands.-Act of April 28, 1904 (33 Stat., 556)-Settlers having for 25 years occupied railroad lands in New Mexico.... 164 164 164 165 Northern Pacific railroad lands.-Act of October 1, 1890 (26 Stat., 647) Settlers on second indemnity belt may select other lands... Act of June 3, 1896 (29 Stat., 245)-Entryman on second indemnity lands in Minnesota-Chippewa lands....... 166 167 Act of July 1, 1898 (30 Stat., 620) Settlers on railroad lands- 168 170 Act of March 2, 1901 (31 Stat., 950)—Act of July 1, 1898, extended... 171 Act of May 17, 1906 (34 Stat., 197)-Same.. 171 172 174 Act of March 3, 1893 (27 Stat., 592)—Preference right to certain 175 Act of August 18, 1894 (28 Stat., 394)-Survey of lands and preference right to certain States... 175 Act of March 2, 1895 (28 Stat., 899)-Selections of school lands on Indian reservations opened.... 176 FOREST LIEU SELECTIONS. Extract from the sundry civil appropriation act, approved June 4, 1897 (30 Stat., 36). Selection of That in cases in which a tract covered by an unper- land in lieu of refected bona fide claim or by a patent is included within the inquished claim in limits of a public forest reservation, the settler or owner reserve. thereof may, if he desires to do so, relinquish the tract 61002°-S. 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