448 Trrr.m xxx1L-—THE PUBLIC IiANDS.—Ch. 11. CHAPTER ELEVEN. IISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING T0 TB PUBLIC LAKDS. Sec. I Sec. . I I 24-17. Patents to issue for claims hereto- I 2472. Falsely dating any evidence of title fore confirmed. ; under_l\Iexrcan authority, &c., to 2448. Patents issued to persons who had larrds_rn{‘al1fom1a, penalty. _ died before issue, effect of. I 2473. Presenting false or counterferted evi- 2449. Fee-simple to pass in all grants of dences of title, &c., to lands in land to States and Territories. 1 Califomia, and prosecuting suits 2450. Cases of suspended entries of pub- thereon, penalty. _ lic lands and suspended pre-emp- 2474. Public par established near the tion land-claims. headwaters of the Yellowstone 2451. Adjudications under above, how ap- River. proved. 2475. Secretary of the Interior to have ex- 2452. Report of adjudications under pre- elusive control of the puk; receding sections. moval of trespassers. 2453. Decisions to be arranged into classes. ¤ 2476. Navigable rivers within public lands 2454. Patents to issue for lands in the first i to be public highways. class, and lands in second class to ~ 2477. Right of way for highways over revert to the United States. ‘ public lands. 2455. Commissioner to order into market 2478. Power of Commissioner of Land-Oflands of second class. fice to enforce this Title. 2456. Patents surrendered and new ones * 2479. Grivnti of swamp sgml overfloyved issued in certain cases. an s to certain fates to ai in 2457. Extent of foregoing rovisions. construction of levees, &c. 2458. Live-oak and redoedar lands. , 2480. Secretary of the Interior to make 2459. Selection of liveoak and red-cedar lists of sucllr lands, for trapsmiptracts. sion to the governors o the 2460. Protec}t;on of live—oak and red-cedar Ststesbd d tim r. 2481. Lega su ivisions mostly wet an 2461. Cutting or destruction of live-oak or I unfit for cultivation. red-cedar, penalty. r 2482. Indemnity to States where lands 2462. Vessels employed in carrying away l have been sold by United States. live-oak and red-cedar, forfeiture i 2483. Patents to issue for swamp-lands of. I to purchasers and locators prior 2463. Clearance of vessels laden with live- to rmuing of patents to States, oak, prosecution of depredators. j &c. 2464. Growth of timber on public lands.2484. Selection of swamp and overflowed 2465. Mode of application for benefit of lands confirmed. preceding section. 2485. Certain lands selected by Califomia 2466. Certificate or patent to issue after confirmed to that State. ten years. 2486. Where selectionsareonlands already 2467. Effect of an abandonment or failure surveyed. to cultivate. 2487. Where selections are upon lands sur- 2468. Land in cultivation for timber not veyed only by State authority. liable to be taken for debt. 2488. Swamp and overflowed lands to be 2469. Copie of records, &c., to be certified. certified to State within one vear 2470. Exemplifications valid without in certain cases. ` names of oflicers signing and 2489. List of lands selected to be sent to countersrgnmg. General Iand-Office. 2471. The false making, altering, &c., of 2490. Act of 1850, c. 84, v. 9, p. 519, exany instrument in writing, &c., tended to Minnesota and Oreconcermng lands, &c., in Califor- gon. ma, penalty. { Papnts tp) img? 2447. In case of any claim to land in any State or· Territory fg;8°c0:]”f;”rm;’d'° ‘ which- has heretofore been confirmed by law, and in which no provision - __.-o; 1 - rs made by the confirmatory statute for· the issue of a patent, rt may be 1 22 1;%:., 1% <‘· lawful, wher·e surveys for the land have been or may hereafter be made, or "· » P- · to issue patents for the claims so confirmed, u on the presentation to the Commissioner of the General Land—Ofiice of plats of survey thereof, duly approved by the surveyor-gener·al of any State or Terr·itory, if the same be found correct by the Commissioner. But such patents shall only o erate as a relinquishment of title on the part of the Lnited States, and shall lll D0 lll5U1HOI` lllt€1‘l`01‘0 Wlth 8[ly valid adverse Fight. to hl1B SBJDC lf1J1d, l10I' be construed to preclude a legal investigation and decision by the proper ]ud1c1a.l tribunal between adverse claimants to the same land. Patents igsueg L, _ Sec. 2448. Where patents forpublic lands have been or may be issued, ppggorlrgfgvmoissue in- pulrsulance of any aw of the mted States, to a. person who had died, effect of- · gr w 0 ereafter dies, before the date of such patent, the title to the land _._ I - esrgnated therein shall mure to and become vested rn the heirs, devisees,
