Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 32 Part 1.djvu/1094

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FlF'l`Y—SEVEN'l`]L CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 1002. 1903. 1029 and provided further that no location of scrip, selection, or right m§&“*i°¤-° °” “’*“°’ along any navigable or other waters shall be made within the distance ' of eighty rods of any lands, along such watei s, theretofore located by means of any such scrip or otherwise; and provided further that no oommuumou. commutation privileges shall be allowed in excess of one hundred and sixty acres inc uded in any homestead entry under the provisions hereof: Provided, That no entry shall be allowed extending more than one {wwwhundred and sixty rods along the shore of any navigable water, and igs§i§Y§:tt2°,2?°°°°v` along such shore a space of at least eighty rods shall be reserved from _ entry between all such claims; and that nothin herein contained shall N° °““‘°‘°"h°’°" be so construed as to authorize entries to be made or title to be acquired to the shore of any navigable waters within said district; and no patent m§:g¤¤ *¤·1¤¤¢· shall issue hereunder until all the requirements of sections twenty-two R. sf, m¤.z·zo1,zzez, hundred and ninety-one, twenty-two hundred and ninety-two, and ”°°""‘°°*m‘ twenty·¢hree hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States have been ful? complied with as to residence, improvements, cultivation, and proo exec t as to commuted lands as herein rovided: And it is fuxrther , That every person who is qualitled under mm °“°”*°' existing laws to make homestead entry of the public lands of the United States who has settled pjpon or who shall hereafter settle upon any of the public lands of the nited States situated in the district of Alaska, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, with the intention of claiming the same under the homestead laws, shall, subject to the provisions and limitations hereof, be entitled to enter three hundred and twenty acres or a less, uantity of unappropriated public land in said district of mum mmm Alaska. llf any of the lan so settled upon, or to be settled upon, is veyedlmda. unsurveyed, then the land settled upon, or to be settled upon, must be located in a rectangular form, not more than one mile in length, and located by north and south lines run according to the true meridian; that the location so made shall be marked upon the ground by permanent monuments at each of the four corners of the said location, so Recomw be met, that the boundaries of the same may be readily and easily traced; that the record of said location shall, within ninety days from the date of settlement., be tiled for record in the recording district in which the land is situated. Said record shall contain the name of the settler, the date of the settlement, and such a description of the land settled upon, by reference to some natural obyect or permanent monument, as will identify the same; and, if after the expiration of the said period I““° °*¥’“‘°“‘· of live years or at such date as the settler may desire to commute the public surveys of the United States have not been extended over the and located, a patent shall nevertheless issue for the land included within the boun aries of said location as thus recorded, upon proof to be submitted to the register and receiver of the proper land oiHce, upon proof that he is a citizen of the United States, and upon the K·S··¤°°·*m·P·“°• further proof required by section twenty-two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States as heretofore and herein amended, and under the rocedure in the obtaining of patents to the unsurveyed lands of the United States, as rovided for y section ten V°’· *’°· P- *1* of the Act hereby amended, and under such rules and regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior as hereinbefore provided, without the payment of any purchase price or other chargesé P¤Y¤¤=¤*=¤- except the ordinary office fees and commissions of the register an receiver except one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre on and commuted: Aml provided always, That no title shall be obtained hereunder mm to amy of the mineral or coal lands of the district of Alaska: And it is jiwt er pwvirled, That the right of any homestead settler to transfer '*,,**§¤¤§c¤g2°S8'¤;“_,j§; any rtion of the land so settled upon,as provided by section twenty-"' ` twohiindred and eighty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall be restricted and limited within the district of Alaska as follows: For church, cemetery, or school purposes to five acres, and