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USE OF THE NATIONAL FORESTS. 



That any entryman desiring to obtain patent to any lands de- 

 scribed by metes and bounds entered by him 

 boaSr^* '^ ""''^ *°'^ under the provisions of this act shall, within 

 five years of the date of making settlement, 

 file, with the required proof of residence and cultivation, a plat 

 and field notes of the lands entered, made by or under the direc- 

 tion of the United States surveyor-general, showing accurately 

 the boundaries of such lands, which shall be distinctly marked 

 by monuments on the ground, and by posting 

 Posting notices. a copy of such plat, together with a notice of 



the time and place of offering proof, in a con- 

 spicuous place on the land embraced in such plat during the 

 period prescribed by law for the publication of his notice of inten- 

 tion to offer proof, and that a copy of such plat and field notes 

 shall also be kept posted in the office of the register 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 Secre- 

 bySs'Znd'boMdr'^ t^-'y- ^^ surveyed by metes and bounds, and 

 that no lands entered under the provisions of 

 this act shall be patented under the commuta- 

 commuted. "*'' °°' ** ^^°° 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. 



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

 within forest reserves on January first, nineteen 

 Additional homestead hundred and six, who have already exercised 

 tifrs' ^orto'^lnuaiy"/," ""^ ^°^*^ ^^^" homestead privilege, but are other- 

 J906. ' 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 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 cf making final proof 

 on such lands. 



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

 Reserve shall be subject to the quartz or lode 

 lawr"*^ *"'' '°^' '"'°'°*^ mining laws 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 land in said Black Hills Forest Reserve under this 

 actshall vest in the patentee any riparian rights 

 'ehts'"'""" °° **'*' to any stream or streams of flowing water within 

 said reserve; and that such limitation of title 

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

 entries. 



