138 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



of residence and cultivation, a plat and field notes of the lands en- 

 tered, made by or nnder the direction of the United States survej^or- 

 general, showing accurately the boundaries of such lands, which 

 shall be distinctly marked 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 office of the reg- 

 ister of the land office for the land district in which such lands are 

 situated for a like period; and further, that any agricultural lands 

 within forest reserves may, at the discretion of the Secretary, be 

 surveyed by metes and bounds, and that no lands entered under 

 the provisions of this Act shall be patented under the commutation 

 provisions of the homestead laws, but settlers, upon final proof, shall 

 have credit for the period of their actual residence upon the lands 

 covered by their entries. 



Act June 11, 1906, c. 3074, s. 1, as amended by ;ict May 30, 1908. c. 233, 

 35 Stilt. 554. 



This section is iiinended by net May 30. 1908, c. 233, by striking out the 

 words " except the following counties in the State of California : Inyo, 

 Tulare, Kern. Ventura, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange, Riverside, 

 and San Diego." The names of the counties San Luis Obispo and Santa 

 Barbara are omitted in the amendment. 



An appropriation for survey and listing of lands within forest reserves 

 chiefly valuable for agriculture, as required by this act, is made in the 

 agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1913, set forth on p. 182, 

 post. 



Additional homestead right of entry to former settlers; payment of price of 

 lands required. 



Sec. 2. That settlers upon lands chiefly valuable for agriculture 

 within forest reserves on January first, nineteen hundred and six. 

 who have already exercised or lost their homestead privilege, but are 

 otherwise competent to enter lands under the homestead laws, are 

 hereby granted an additional homestead right of entry for the pur- 

 poses of this Act only, and such settlers must otherwise comply with 

 the provisions of the homestead law, and in addition 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. 



Act .Tune 11. 1900, c. 3074, s. 2. 34 Stat. 234 



Entries in Black Hills Forest Reserve subject to mining laws and laws and 

 regulations relating to waters; limitation of title acquired as to riparian 

 rights. 



Sec. '}. That all entries under this Act in the Black Hills Forest 

 Keserve shall bo subject to the quartz or lode mining laws of the 

 United 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 llilis Forest Reserve under this Act 

 shall vest in the patentee any riparian rights to any stream or streams 

 of flowing water within said reserve; and that such limitation of title 

 s^hall be expressed in the patents for the lands covered by such entries. 



Act Juno n, 1900. c. .3074. s. 3, 34 Stat. 234. 



