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proof of residence and cultivation, a plat and field notes of the 

 lands entered, made by or under the direction of the United 

 States surveyor-general, showing accurately the boundaries of 

 such lands, which shall be distinctly marked 

 Posting notices. by monuments on the ground, and by 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 copy of such plat and field notes shall also be kept 

 posted in the oih'ce of the register of the land office for the land 

 district in which such lands are situated for 

 veyby r i e ?e* y alfd" a like period ; and further, that any agricul- 

 bounds. tural lands within forest reserves may, at the 



discretion of the Secretary, be surveyed by 

 commuted.** " * metes and bounds, and that no lands entered 

 under the provisions of this act shall be pat- 

 ented under the commutation provisions of the home- [234] 

 stead laws, but settlers, upon final proof, shall have credit for 

 the period of their actual residence upon the lands covered by 

 their entries. 



SEC. 2. That settlers upon lands chiefly valuable for agri- 

 culture within forest reserves on January 

 Additional home- first, nineteen hundred and six, who have 

 ac e tnai r settlo?s P "io? already exercised or lost their homestead 

 to January 1,1906. privilege, but are otherwise competent to en- 

 ter lands under the homestead laws, are 

 hereby granted an additional homestead right to enter for the 

 purposes of this act only, and such settlers must otherwise 

 comply with the provisions of the homestead law, and in addi- 

 tion thereto must pay two dollars and fifty cents per acre for 

 lands entered under the provisions of this section, such payment 

 to be made at the time of making final proof on such lands. 

 SEC. 3. That all entries under this act in the Black Hills 

 Forest Reserve shall be subject to the quartz 



Mans. Or lode mlnln * lawS f the Ullited StateS ' 

 and the laws and regulations permitting the 



location, appropriation, and use of the waters within the said 

 forest reserves for mining, irrigation, and other purposes ; and 

 no titles acquired to agricultural lands in said Black Hills For- 

 est Reserve under this act shall vest in the 

 ter rights! 011 " Patentee any riparian rights to any stream 



or streams of flowing water within said re- 

 serve; and that such limitation of title shall be expressed in 

 the patents for the lands covered by such entries. 



