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act of June twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, relative to the sale of military sites be, and same are hereby, repealed.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. War may grant erection of SEC. 6. The Secretary of War shall have authority, in Secretary of 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). nicipal corpora Provided, That the President is hereby authorized by Grants to mu 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. 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. abandoned mili 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 aet of July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four. 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. 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 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- etc.. 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.. TOWN SITES.-Act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat., 1099)-Entry by trustee under Sec. 2387, R. S... 38 38 TIMBER.-Act of May 14, 1898 (30 Stat., 414)-Sale and use of timber.... 9 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....... Homestead allotments to tives. na ALLOTMENTS. An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to allot homesteads to the natives of Alaska. 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 to the district of Alaska," approved June sixth, nineteen hundred. 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 within one year from making such location, file for record Boundaries. Filing notice. 1 Amended by the act of Apr. 28, 1904. Patents. in the recording district, and with the register and receiver of the land district in which the lands are located or situated, a notice containing the name or names of the locator or locators, the date of the location, the description of the lands located, and a reference to such natural objects or permanent monuments as will readily identify the same. SEC. 2. That such locator or locators, or their assigns, who are citizens of the United States, shall receive a patent to the lands located by presenting, at any time within three years from the date of such notice, to the register Application to and receiver of the land district in which the lands so lo- three years. cated are situated an application therefor, accompanied by a certified copy of a plat of survey and field notes thereof, made by a United States deputy surveyor or a United States mineral surveyor duly approved by the surveyorgeneral for the district of Alaska, and a payment of the sum of ten dollars per acre for the lands applied for; but Price per acre. no such application shall be allowed until after the applicant has caused a notice of the presentation thereof, embracing a description of the lands, to have been published in a newspaper in the district of Alaska published nearest Notice to the location of the premises for a period of sixty days, and shall have caused copies of such notice, together with a certified copy of the official plat of survey, to have been kept posted in a conspicuous place upon the land applied Notice to be for and in the land office for the district in which the lands are located for a like period, and until after he shall have furnished proof of such publication and posting, and such other proof as is required by the coal-land laws: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to authorize entries to be made or title to be acquired to the shore of any navigable waters within said district. published. posted on claim. be Shores of navi gable waters. SEC. 3. That during such period of posting and publi- Adverse claims. cation, or within six months thereafter, any person or association of persons having or asserting any adverse interest or claim to the tract of land or any part thereof sought to be purchased shall file in the land office where such application is pending, under oath, an adverse Proceedings claim, setting forth the nature and extent thereof, and such adverse claimant shall, within sixty days after the filing of such adverse claim, begin an action to quiet title in a court of competent jurisdiction within the district of Alaska, and thereafter no patent shall issue for such claim until the final adjudication of the rights of the parties, and such patent shall then be issued in conformity with the final decree of such court therein. existing laws SEC. 4. That all the provisions of the coal-land laws of Continuance of the United States not in conflict with the provisions of this act shall continue and be in full force in the district of Alaska. Approved, April 28, 1904 (33 Stat., 525). |