of the Government price for the land; but no pers: ahall be permitted to acquire more than one hur id: sexy acts of public land through the location of a STATE GRANTS AND SELECTIONS. See "Swamp lands". Revised Statutes.-Section 1946-School lands in certain Territories-- Page. 593 536 536 537 Act of March 2, 1895-State selections on ceded Indian reservations__-. 537 537 543 544 Act of July 23, 1866-Lieu selections Surveyor general to furnish State lists as basis for selections____ 544 Act of March 1, 1877-Certain selections confirmed-Mexican grants-In- 545 546 Act of April 2, 1884-Selections in lieu of mineral lands__ Act of February 27, 1913-Selections on oil and phosphate lands__ 546 547 548 549 551 550 Act of February 14, 1923-Cut-over lands may be exchanged for other lands of equal value.... Act of July 4, 1866-Mineral lands reserved from sale__ Act of June 16, 1880-2,000,000 acres granted in lieu of sections 16 and 36 Act of June 20, 1910-Sections 16, 36, 2, and 32 for common schools- OREGON.-Act of February 14, 1859-School lands-Lieu selections_. UTAH.-Act of July 16, 1894-School lands-Reservations excepted____ STATE SELECTIONS.-Revised Statutes, sections 2275-2276-Settle- Act of March 3, 1893-Preference right to certain States.. Act of August 18, 1894-Survey of lands and preference right to certain States... Act of March 2, 1895-Selections of school lands on Indian reservations opened 556 557 562 562 563 564 564 566 568 568 571 Act of February 16, 1921-Survey of lands and preference right to Act of April 29, 1898-Settlement between the United States and Arkansas. 571 571 569 535 Duties of Sec retary. SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. Revised Statutes, section 441.-The Secretary of the Interior is charged with supervision of the public lands. UNITED STATES REVISED STATUTES. SEC. 441. The Secretary of the Interior is charged with Mar. 3, 1849, the supervision of public business relating to the follow 9 S. 395. 532 ing subjects: First. The census; when directed by law. Second. The public lands, including mines. Fourth. Pensions and bounty lands. Fifth Patents for inventions. Sixth. The custody and distribution of publications. Eighth. Government Hospital for the Insane. Ninth. Columbia Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb. SOLDIERS' ADDITIONAL HOMESTEADS. Revised Statutes.-Sections 2306-2307-Persons who have had at least Act of March 3, 1893-May perfect title by payment when certificate of UNITED STATES REVISED STATUTES. Page. 533 533 534 have entered less June 8, 1872, SEC. 2306. Every person entitled, under the provisions Persons who of section twenty-three hundred and four1 to enter a than 160 acres, homestead who may have heretofore entered, under the rights of. homestead laws, a quantity of land less than one hundred 17 s. 333. and sixty acres, shall be permitted to enter so much land as, when added to the quantity previously entered, shall not exceed one hundred and sixty acres. Widow and minor children of persons entitled Ibid. SEC. 2307. In case of the death of any person who would be entitled to a homestead under the provisions of section two thousand three hundred and four, his widow, to homestead, etc. if unmarried, or in case of her death or marriage, then his minor orphan children, by a guardian duly appointed and officially accredited at the Department of the Interior, shall be entitled to all the benefits enumerated in this chapter, subject to all the provisions as to settlement and improvement therein contained; but if such person died during his term of enlistment, the whole term of his enlistment shall be deducted from the time heretofore required to perfect the title. ACTS OF CONGRESS PASSED SUBSEQUENT TO THE REVISED STATUTES. Extract from the sundry civil appropriation Act, approved March 3, 1893 (27 Stat. 572-593). tles under solhomesteads. And provided further, That where soldier's additional Perfecting ti homestead entries have been made or initiated upon cer- diers' additional tificate of the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the right to make such entry, and there is no adverse claimant, and such certificate is found erroneous or invalid for any cause, the purchaser thereunder, on making proof of such purchase, may perfect his title by payment 1 For sec. 2304, see page 80. 2 June 22, 1874, date of approval of the United States Revised Statutes. Maximum. Soldiers' clared valid. cer of the Government price for the land; but no person shall be permitted to acquire more than one hundred and sixty acres of public land through the location of any such certificate. Extract from the sundry civil appropriation Act, approved August 18, 1894 (28 Stat. 372-397). That all soldiers' additional homestead certificates tificates sold de heretofore issued under the rules and regulations of the General Land Office under section twenty-three hundred and six of the Revised Statutes of the United States, or in pursuance of the decisions or instructions of the Secretary of the Interior, of date March tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, or any subsequent decisions or instructions of the Secretary of the Interior or the Commissioner of the General Land Office, shall be, and are hereby, declared to be valid, notwithstanding any attempted sale or transfer thereof; and where such certificates have been or may hereafter be sold or transferred, such sale or transfer shall not be regarded as invalidating the right, but the same shall be good and valid in the hands of bona fide purchasers for value; and all entries heretofore or hereafter made with such certificates by such purchasers shall be approved, and patent shall issue in the name of the assignees. |