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FORESTRY INVESTIGATIONS U. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 



To give a more complete view of the action of the Government in its bearings upon forestry, 

 it seems proper to append to the foregoing synopsis the following record of legislation, actual as 

 well as only proposed: 



TIMBER-CULTURE ACTS. 



Tear. 



1873 



1874 



1876 



1878 



1881 



1882 

 1885 



1885 

 1885 

 1886 



1886 

 1888 



1888 



1888 



1888 

 1890 



1890 



Congress. 



42(1, 2d sess 



4 3d, 1st sess 



do 



45th, 2<1 seas 



47th, Istscss 



do 



49th, 1st sess 



do 



do 



do 



do 



50th, 1st sess 



do 



do 



do 



filst, 1st sess 



...do ... 



House in 

 which origi- 

 nated. 



Senate 680 . 



H.R.743... 



H. R. 2427. 



II. R.3235.. 



H. R.430... 



H. R.4497-. 

 Senate 65 . . 



H.R.452... 

 H. R.380... 

 H.R.5210-. 



II. R. 1238.. 

 Senate 2893 



H. R. 1301.. 



H. R.1601.. 



H.R.2003-. 



Senate 66.. 



Senate S66 . 

 H.R.84... 



Object of bill. 



To encourage the growth of timber on Western prairies. 

 A person planting 40 acres of timber trees on Govern- 

 ment land to be entitled to 160 acres at the expiration of 

 10 years. The so-called timber culture act. 



To amend the above act. Confines privilege of entry to 

 heads of families or persons over 21 years of age and to 

 citizens of the United States. Reduces the time for 

 perfecting title to eight years. Restricts the amount 

 to be entered by one person to 160 acres. Allows home- 

 steaders to obtain patent by planting one-sixteenth of 

 homestead with trees. 



To amend act of 1873. Allows extension of time for per- 

 fecting title in case of the destruction of trees by grass- 

 hoppers: also penults seeds and nuts to be planted in- 

 stead of trees. 



To amend the act of 1873. Reducing the number of acres 

 to be planted to ]0 for every quarter section, and in the 

 same proportion for smaller quantities, but requiring 

 closer planting 2,700 trees per acre. Five acres to be 

 broken first year and 5 the second, and planted with 

 trees in the third and fourth years. Repeals the home- 

 stead provision of the act of 1874. 



To amend the act of 1878. Specifying the kinds of trees to 

 be planted. 



To repeal theactof'1878 



To repeal all laws for the preemption of public lands and 

 those allowing entries for timber culture, the sale of 

 desert lands, etc. 



To repeal all laws for the preemption of public lands and 

 those allowing entries for timber culture. 



To repeal preemption aud timber culture laws. Nearly 

 identical with bill 452. 



To repeal all laws for the preemption of public lands and 

 for timber-culture entries. 



To amend the act of 1878 



To amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 

 'An act to encourage the growth of timber on the West- 

 ern prairies.' " 



To repeal all laws providing for the preemption of the pub- 

 lic lands, the laws allowing entries for timber culture, 

 the laws authorizing the sale of desert lands, and for 

 other purposes. 



To repeal all laws providing for the preemption of the pub- 

 lic lands, the laws allowing entries for timber culture, 

 and for other purposes. 



To repeal the preemption and timber-culture laws, and to 

 amend the desert-laml act. and for other purposes. 



To repeal all laws providing for the preempt ion of the pub- 

 lic lauds, the laws allowing entries for timber culture, 

 aud for other purposes. 



To amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 

 'An act to encourage the growth of timber on the West- 

 ern prairies.' " 



To repeal all laws providing for the preemption of the pub- 

 lic lands, the law allowing entries for timber culture and 

 amending other land laws, and for other purposes. 



Action taken. 



Referred to Committee on Public 

 Lands. Reported favorably ami 

 passed. Approved March 3, 1873. 



Passed aud approved March 13, 1874. 



Referred to Committee on Public 

 Lands. Reported favorably. Passed 

 and approved May 20. 1H77. 



Reported with amendments by com- 

 mittee. Passed and approved June 

 14, 1878. 



Referred to Committee on Public 

 Lands. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



Do. 

 Do. 



Referred to Committee on Public 

 Lands. Laid on table. 



Do. 



IX). 



Referred to Committee on Public 

 Lands. Reported back adversely 

 and indefinitely postponed. 



Referred to Committee on Public 

 Lands. Reported back. Parsed 

 Senate. Referred to House Com- 

 mittee on Public Lands. 



Referred, to Committee on Public 

 Lands. 



