Right of appeal. Chippewa Indian lands. land. When any payment is made to effect such subrogation the receiver shall transmit to the treasurer of the county where the land is situated the amount at which the land was sold at the sale for drainage charges, together with the interest paid thereon, if any, less any sum in excess of what may be due for such drainage charge, if the land when sold was unentered. SEC. 7. That a copy of all notices required by the drainage laws mentioned in this act to be given to the owners or occupants of lands held in private ownership shall, as soon as such notices issue, be delivered to the register and receiver of the proper district land office in cases where unentered lands are affected thereby and to the entrymen whose unpatented lands are included therein, and the United States and such entrymen shall be given the same rights to be heard by petition, answer, remonstrance, appeal, or otherwise as are given to persons holding lands in private ownership; and all entrymen shall be given the same rights of redemption as are given to the owners of lands held in private ownership. SEC. 8. That hereafter homestead entries and final Homestead en- proofs may be made upon all ceded Chippewa Intries may be dian lands in Minnesota embraced in the withdrawal under the act of June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, entitled "An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Departpartment" (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, page three hundred and twenty-five), and patents may issue thereon as in other homestead cases, upon the payment by the entryman of the price prescribed by law for such land and on entries on the ceded Red Lake Reservation in addition thereto the sum of three cents per acre to repay the cost of the drainage survey thereof, which addition shall be disposed of the same as the other proceeds of said land. made thereon. Patents, etc. Approved, May 20, 1908 (35 Stat., 169). OFFICERS, CLERKS, AND EMPLOYEES. Revised Statutes, Sec. 452-Officers, clerks, and employees of the General Land Office prohibited from purchase, entry, etc., of public lands. Act of March 3, 1879 (20 Stat., 394)--Officials of the Geological Survey to have no interest in lands or mineral wealth of region under survey. UNITED STATES REVISED STATUTES. upon officers, SEC. 452. The officers, clerks, and employees in the Restriction General Land Office are prohibited from directly or indi- clerks, and emrectly purchasing or becoming interested in the purchase ployees. Apr. 25, 1812, of any of the public land; and any person who violates 2 s., 717; July 4, this section shall forthwith be removed from his office. ACT OF CONGRESS PASSED SUBSEQUENT TO THE REVISED STATUTES. Extract from the sundry civil appropriation act, approved March 3, 1879 (20 Stat., 394). 1836, 5 S., 112. lands under sur Provided, That this officer [the Director of the Geo- Employees of the Geological logical Survey] shall have the direction of the Geological Survey, to have Survey, and the classification of the public lands and no interest in examination of the Geological Structure, mineral re- vey. sources and products of the national domain. And that the Director and members of the Geological Survey shall have no personal or private interests in the lands or mineral wealth of the region under survey, and shall execute no surveys or examinations for private parties or corporations. 205 PREEMPTIONS. The preemption laws, sections 2257 to 2288, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes, were repealed by section 4 of the act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat., 1096), except sections 2275, 2276, 2286, and 2288. However, they are here given because of their relation to existing laws. Revised Statutes Lands subject to preemption-Qualifica- Page. 206 211 Act of September 30, 1890 (26 Stat., 684)-Extension of time for 212 Lands subject to preemption. S, 413. UNITED STATES REVISED STATUTES. SEC. 2257. All lands belonging to the United States, to June 2, 1862, 12 Which the Indian title has been or may hereafter be extinguished, shall be subject to the right of preemption, under the conditions, restrictions, and stipulations provided by law. Lands not sub SEC. 2258. The following classes of lands, unless otherject to preemp-wise specially provided for by law, shall not be subject Sept. 4, 1841, 5 to the rights of preemption, to wit: tion. S., 455. Persons tion. Ibid. enti First. Lands included in any reservation by any treaty, law, or proclamation of the President, for any purpose. Second. Lands included within the limits of any incorporated town, or selected as the site of a city or town. Third. Lands actually settled and occupied for purposes of trade and business, and not for agriculture. Fourth. Lands on which are situated any known salines or mines. SEC. 2259. Every person, being the head of a family, tled to preemp- or widow, or single person, over the age of twenty-one years, and a citizen of the United States, or having filed a declaration of intention to become such, as required by the naturalization laws, who has made, or hereafter makes, a settlement in person on the public lands subject to preemption, and who inhabits and improves the same, and who has erected or shall erect a dwelling thereon, is authorized to enter with the register of the land office for the district in which such land lies, by legal subdivisions, any number of acres not exceeding one hundred and sixty, or a quarter section of land, to include the residence of such claimant, upon paying to the United States the minimum price of such land. |