tended to Minne SEC. 2490. The provisions of the act of Congress en- Act of 1850 extitled "An act to enable the State of Arkansas and other sota and Oregon, States to redeem" the swamp lands within their limits, 9 8., 519; Mar. 12, Sept. 28, 1850. approved September 28, A. D. 1850, extend to the States 1860, 12 S., 3. of Minnesota and Oregon: Provided, That the grant shall not include any lands which the Government of the United States may have sold or disposed of under any law, enacted prior to March 12, 1860, prior to the confirmation of title to be made under the authority of said act and the selections to be made from lands already surveyed in each of the States last named, under the authority of the act aforesaid, shall have been made within two years from the adjournment of the legislature of each State, at its next session after the 12th day of March, A. D. 1860-and as to all lands surveyed or to be surveyed, thereafter, within two years from such adjournment, at the next session after notice by the Secretary of the Interior to the governor of the State, that the surveys have been completed and confirmed. TIMBER. Act of June 3, 1878 (20 Stat., 88)-Timber on mineral lands in Act of June 15, 1880 (21 Stat., 237)-Entry and payment of price Page. 360 361 Act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat., 1093)-Defense in criminal pros- 362 Act of February 13, 1893 (27 Stat., 444)-Act of March 3, 1891, 363 Act of July 1, 1898 (30 Stat., 618)-Citizens of Idaho and Wyo- 363 Act of March 3, 1901 (31 Stat., 1439)—Act of March 3, 1891, 364 Act of June 4, 1897 (30 Stat., 35)-Sale of timber within forest 364 Act of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat., 839)-Timber sold from forests 365 Act of March 4, 1909 (35 Stat., 1098)—Timber depredations on 365 Act of August 10, 1912 (37 Stat., 287)-Sale of timber within 366 Act of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat., 1015)—Sale of timber killed by 366 eral lands may be purposes. An Act Authorizing the citizens of Colorado, Nevada and the Territories to fell and remove timber on the public domain for mining and domestic purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Timber on min- That all citizens of the United States and other persons, taken for certain bona fide residents of the State of Colorado, or Nevada, or either of the territories of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, Dakota, Idaho, or Montana, and all other mineral districts of the United States, shall be, and are hereby, authorized and permitted to fell, and remove, for building, agricultural, mining, or other domestic purposes, any timber or other trees growing or being on the public lands, said lands being mineral, and not subject to entry under existing laws of the United States, except for mineral entry, in either of said States, Territories, or districts of which such citizens or persons may be at the time bona-fide residents, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe for the protection of the timber and of the undergrowth to railroad corpo- growing upon such lands, and for other purposes: Provided, the provisions of this act shall not extend to railroad corporations. Not to extend rations. pur SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of the register and Taking for unthe receiver of any local land office in whose district any poses. mineral land may be situated to ascertain from time to time whether any timber is being cut or used upon any such lands, except for the purposes authorized by this act, within their respective land districts; and, if so, they shall immediately notify the Commissioner of the General Land Office of that fact; and all necessary expenses incurred in making such proper examinations shall be paid and allowed such register and receiver in making up their next quarterly accounts. SEC. 3. Any person or persons who shall violate the Penalty. provisions of this act, or any rules and regulations in pursuance thereof made by the Secretary of the Interior, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, and to which may be added imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months. Approved, June 3, 1878 (20 Stat., 88). An Act Relating to the public lands of the United States. ment of price to Bona fide set Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That when any lands of the United States shall have been Entry and payentered and the Government price paid therefor in full no stop suit for trescriminal suit or proceeding by or in the name of the United pass. States shall thereafter be had or further maintained for any trespasses upon or for or on account of any material taken from said lands, and no civil suit or proceeding shall be had or further maintained for or on account of any trespasses upon or material taken from the said lands of the United States in the ordinary clearing of land, in working a mining claim, or for agricultural or domestic purposes, or for maintaining improvements upon the fand of any bona fide settler, or for or on account of any ter protected timber or material taken or used by any person without from suit. fault or knowledge of the trespass, or for or on account of any timber taken or used without fraud or collusion by any person who in good faith paid the officers or agents of the United States for the same, or for or on account of any alleged conspiracy in relation thereto: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall apply only to trespasses and acts done or committed and conspiracies entered into prior to March first, eighteen hundred and Not to apply prior to March 1, seventy-nine: And provided further, That defendants in 1887. such suits or proceedings shall exhibit to the proper Defendants to courts or officer the evidence of such entry and payment, of entry. and shall pay all costs accrued up to the time of such entry. Homestead en SEC. 2. That persons who have heretofore under any d of the homestead laws entered lands properly subject to such entry, or persons to whom the right of those having so entered for homesteads may have been attempted to |