The National Forest Manual: Regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture and Instructions to Forest Officers Relating to Claims, Settlement, and Administrative Sites on National Forest LandsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1912 - 56 pages |
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acres act of June administrative sites affidavit agricultural land allotment application is received Applications in conflict approved blue prints bounds survey carbon copies cation chief of field chiefly valuable claimant Commissioner Department of Agriculture district assistant district forester district forester's district office district ranger entryman examination and listing examination and report facts field division field notes filed final action final proof folder Forest officers Forest purposes Forest Service forwarded homestead act homestead law index card indorsement instructions JAMES WILSON June 11 land applied Land Office letter of request listing letter lotted tract memorandum ment metes and bounds mineral claim National Forest necessary nonmineral notice of final notified preference right prior procedure receipt recommended for listing reference register and receiver rejected reports on claims Secretary of Agriculture settlement solicitor Stat statement submitted tion township plat Form tract applied tract book unsurveyed land valuable for agriculture withdrawal witnesses
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Page 30 - That the right of way for the construction of highways over public lands, not reserved for public uses, is hereby granted.
Page 7 - Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of Agriculture by the act of Congress of February 1, 1905 (33 Stat. 628), amendatory of the act of...
Page 32 - ... to any Indian occupying, living on, or having improvements on land included within any such national forest who is not entitled to an allotment on any existing Indian reservation, or for whose tribe no reservation has been provided, or whose reservation was not sufficient to afford an allotment to each member thereof. All applications for...
Page 9 - It is a fundamental requisite that all claims be initiated in good faith for the purpose contemplated by the law under which they are held. It is bad faith, for instance, to hold a mining or agricultural claim primarily for the timber thereon.
Page 42 - ... no reservation has been provided, or whose reservation was not sufficient to afford an allotment to each member thereof. All applications for allotments under the provisions of this section shall be submitted to the Secretary of Agriculture who shall determine whether the lands applied for are more valuable for agricultural or grazing purposes than, for the timber found thereon...
Page 2 - March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and which may be continued ; and he may make such rules and regulations and establish such service as will insure the objects of such reservations, namely, to regulate their occupancy and use and to preserve the forests thereon from destruction...
Page 28 - ... posting a copy of such plat, together with a notice of the time and place of offering proof, in a conspicuous place on the land embraced in such plat during the period prescribed by law for the publication of his notice of intention to offer proof, and that a...
Page 35 - June 11. 1906, which does not exceed 160 acres in area and which may be contained in a square mile the sides of which extend in cardinal directions will be regarded as within the provisions of said act limiting such homestead entries to "not exceeding 160 acres in area and not exceeding one mile in length.
Page 42 - ... member thereof. All applications for allotments under the provisions of this section shall be submitted to the Secretary of Agriculture, who shall determine whether the lands applied for are more valuable for agricultural or grazing purposes than for the timber found thereon; and if it be found that the lands applied for are more valuable for agricultural or grazing purposes, then the Secretary of the Interior shall cause allotment to be made as herein provided.
Page 28 - States surveyor general, showing accurately the boundaries of such lands, which shall be distinctly marked by monuments on the ground, and by posting a copy of such plat, together with a notice of the time and place of...