APPENDIX. 



AGRICULTURAL SETTLEMENT. 



Act of June ii, 1906. 



The Secretary of Agriculture may, in his discretion, and he is 



hereby authorized, upon application or other- 

 m^^U^°^todIaSI ^^^' ^° ^^^^^^^ ^nd ascertain as to the loca- 

 for setUement. " ^ion and extent of lands within permanent or 



temporary forest reserves, except the follow- 

 ing counties in the State of California: Inyo, Tulare, Kern, San 

 Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, San Ber- 

 nardino, Orange, Riverside, and San Diego, which are chiefly 

 valuable for agriculture, and which, in his opinion, may be occu- 

 pied for agricultural purposes without injury to the forest reserves, 

 and which are not needed for public purposes, and may list and 



describe the same by metes and bounds, or 

 Hetes and bounds. otherwise, and file the lists and descriptions 



with the Secretary of the Interior, with the 

 request that the said lands be opened to entry in accordance with 

 the provisions of the homestead laws and this act. 



Upon the filing of any such list or description the Secretary of 



the Interior shall declare the said lands open 



Secretary of the Interior tg homestead settlement and entry in tracts not 



seamen?. '"' *" " exceeding one hundred and sixty acres in area 



and not exceeding one mile in length at the 

 expiration of sixty days from the filing of the list in the land office 

 of the district within which the lands are located, during which 



period the said list or description shall be promi- 

 Advertisement. nently posted in the land office and advertised 



for a period of not less than four weeks in one 

 newspaper of general circulation published in (he county in which 



the lands are situated : Provided, That any set- 

 Prcfraenceririrfsofset- tier actually occupying and in good faith claim- 

 tlemen an entry. .^^ such lands for agricultural purposes prior 



to January first, nineteen hundred and six, and who shall not 

 have abandoned the same, and the person, if qualified to make a 

 homestead entry, upon whose application the land proposed to be 

 entered was examined and listed, shall, each in the order named, 

 have a preference right of settlement and entry; Provided further, 



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