124 ALASKA. 



AN ACT to authorize the entr\' of lands chiefly valualilc for building stone under the placer 



mining laws. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 

 of America in Congress assembled, That any person authorized to enter lands 

 under the mining laws of the United States may enter lands that are chiefly 

 valuable for building stone under the provisions of the law in relation to placer 

 mineral claims: Provided, That lands reserved for the benefit of- the public 

 schools or donated to any State shall not be subject to entry under this act. 



Sec. 2. That an act entitled "An act for the sale of timber lands in the States 

 of California, Oregon, Nevada, and Washington Territory," approved June 

 third, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, be, and the same is hereby, amended 

 by striking out the words " States of California, Oregon, Nevada, and Wash- 

 ington Territory " where the same occur in the second and third lines of said act, 

 and insert in lieu thereof the words, " public-land States," the purpose of this 

 act being to make said act of June third, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, 

 applicable to all the public-land States. 



Sec. 3. That nothing in this act shall be construed to repeal section twenty- 

 four of the act entitled "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other 

 purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one. 



Approved, August 4, 1892. 



A. Department of the Interior, 



General Land Office, 

 Washington, D. C, October 24, i8g2. 

 Registers and Receivers, United States Land Offices : 



Gentlemen : In addition to instructions contained in general circular of Feb- 

 ruary 6, 1892, pages 35 to 38, inclusive, and pages 147 and 148, in relation to 

 the timber and stone act of June 3, 1878, extended by the act of August 4, 1892, 

 referred to in circular A of October 12, 1892, you are advised as follows: 



1. That entries made under section one of said act are required to be kept 

 and reported in consecutive and numerical order in your mineral land series. 



2. That entries made under section two of said act are required to be kept 

 and reported in consecutive numerical order in your regular agricultural cash 

 series. 



Necessary additional blank forms for entries under said act are as follows: 

 Form Nos. 4-357; 4-363J 4-370i 4-37'; 4-537; 4-65^^- 

 Very respectfully, 



W. M. Stone, 



Acting Commissioner. 



