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for the period of their actual residence upon the lands covered by 

 their entries. 



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



within forest reserves on January first, nineteen 

 Additional home- hundred and six, who have already exercised 

 S ,!-Vuai r S l tiJs prior' or lost their homestead privilege, but are other- 

 Id January 1, 1906. wise competent to enter lands under the home- 

 stead laws, are hereby granted an additional 

 homestead right of entry for the purposes of this act only, and 

 such settlors 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 

 <>n such lands. 



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



.Reserve shall be subject to the quartz or lode 

 * minin g la ws of the United States, and the laws 



and regulations permitting the location, appro- 

 priation, 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 Forest Reserve under this 



act shall vest in the patentee any riparian rights 

 ri'ii'ts r ^ an y stream or streamsof flowing water within 



said reserve; and that such limitation of title 

 shall be expressed in the patents for the lands covered by such 

 entries. 

 SEC. 4. That no homestead settlements or entries shall be allowed 



in that portion of the BJack Hills Forest Re- 

 niiiffton '"counties ex- serve in Lawrence and Pennington counties, in 

 repfed. South Dakota, except to persons occupying 



lands therein prior to January first, nineteen 

 Art uai settlers prior hundred and six, and the provisions of this 



exceptS? 7 1!> 6 ' act sna11 a PP lv to the said counties in said re- 

 serve only so' far as is necessary to give and 

 perfect title of such settlers or occupants to lands chiefly valuable 

 f>r 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. 

 SKC. 5. That nothing herein contained shall be held to author- 

 ize 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 home- 

 stead settler who has or shall establish residence upon public lands 

 prior to their inclusion within a forest reserve. 



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