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Homestead settlements or entries not allowed in certain portions of Black Hills 

 Forest Reserve except to give title to former settlers. 



Sec. 4. That no homestead settlements or entries shall be allowed in 

 that portion of the Black Hills Forest Reserve in Lawrence and Pen- 

 nington counties in South Dakota except to persons occupying lands 

 therein prior to January first, nineteen hundred and six, and the pro- 

 visions of this Act shall apply to the said counties in said reserve only 

 so far as is necessary to give and jperfect title of such settlers or occu- 

 pants to lands chiefly valuable for agriculture therein occupied or 

 claimed by them prior to the said date, and all homestead entries 

 under this Act in said counties in said reserve shall be described by 

 metes and bounds survey. 



Act June 11, 1906, c. 3074. s. 4, 34 Stat. 234. 



Certain lands in the Black Hills Forest Reserve, South Dakota, are 

 excepted from the operation of this section by act Februarv S, inOT. 

 c. S96, and act July 3, 1912, c. 195, set forth below. 



Act not to be construed to authorize future settlements on lands within forest 

 reserves, or to impair rights of former bona fide settlers. 



Sec. 5. That nothing herein contained shall be l>eld to authorize 

 any future settlement on any lands within forest reserves until such 

 lands have been opened to settlement as provided in this Act. or to 

 in any way impair the legal rights of any bona fide homestead settler 

 who has or shall establish residence upon public lands prior to their 

 inclusion within a forest reserve. 



Act June 11. 1906, c. 3074, s. 5, 34 Stat. 234. 



ACT AUGUST 10, 1912, c. 284. (37 Stat. 269.) 



Lands listed under act June 11, 1906, not to pass from forest reserves until 

 patents issue. 



* * * no land listed under the Act of June eleventh, nine- 

 teen hundred and six, shall pass from the forest until patent 

 issues; * * * 



Act August 10, 1912, c. 284, 37 Stat. 287. 



This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1913, cited above. 



ACT FEBRUARY 8, 1907, c. 896. An act excepting certain lands in Pennington 

 County, South Dakota, from the operation of the provisions of section four 

 of an act approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled "An 

 act to provide for the entry of asiricultural lands within forest reserves." 

 (34 Stat. 883.) 



Certain townships in Black Hills Forest Reserve excepted from provisions re- 

 stricting homestead settlements or entries therein. 



That the following described townships in the Black Hills Forest 

 Reserve, in Pennington County, South Dakota, to wit: Townships 

 one north, one east; two north, one east; one north, two east; two 

 north, two east; one south, one east; two south, one east; one south, 

 two east ; and two south, two east, Black Hills meridian, are hereby 

 excepted from the operation of the provisions of section four of an 

 Act entitled "An Act to provide for the entry of agricultural lands 

 within forest reserves," approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred 

 and six. The lands within the said townships to remain subject to 

 all other provisions of said Act. 



Act Februarv 8, 1907. c. 806, 34 Stat. 88.?. 



Act June 11, 1906, c. 3074, s. 4, mentioned in this act, is set forth above. 



