CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX OF ACTS OF CONGRESS. 



Mar. 3, 1875 (18 Stat., 482): Page. 



Railroad rights of way 79 



Mar. 3, 1877 (19 Stat,, 377): 



Desert-land laws 72 



(For amendment see pp. 74 and 75.) 



June 3, 1878 (20 Stat,, 89): 



Timber and stone act 68 



Timber in mineral districts may be cut under regulations of Secretary of 

 the Interior 104 



May 14, 1880(21 Stat., 140): 



Settlement rights, time for filing 46 



Feb. 25, 1885 (23 Stat,, 321): 



Unlawful fencing 106 



June 4, 1888 (25 Stat., 166): 



Penalty for timber trespass 103 



June 6, 1900 (31 Stat., 661): 



Sale of timber 11, 96 



Aug. 30, 1890 (26 Stat., 371, p. 391): 



Right of way reserved for ditches and canals constructed by authority of 

 Government 81 



Mar. 3, 1891 (26 Stat., 1093) :_ 



Suits to cancel patent ; timber trespass 94 



Mar. 3, 1891 (26 Stat., 1095): 



Creation of National Forests 9 



Amending desert-land law 72 



Irrigation rights of way 81 



Timber from public timber lands 105 



Defenses 105 



Agricultural, mining, etc. , uses 105 



Aug. 4, 1892 (27 Stat., 548): 



Entry of lands chiefly valuable for building stone under the placer-mining 



May U, 1896 (29 Stat., 120): 



Electric power — permissive rights of wav 83 



Feb. 11, 1897 (29 Stat., 526): 



Entry and patenting of lands containing petroleum and other mineral oils 



under che placer-mining laws 59 



June 4, 1897 (30 Stat,, 11): 



President empowered to revoke, modify, or suspend Executive orders or 

 proclamations 9 



Administration 10 



Timber-sales provisions, as amended by act June 6, 1900 (31 Stat,, 661).. 96 



Free use, timber and stone 97 



Provisions for protection against fire, etc 102 



Penalty 103 



May 11, 1898 (30 Stat,, 404): 



Rights of way for purposes subsidiary to irrigation 82 



Feb. 28, 1899 (30 Stat., 908): 



Leasing of lands adjacent to min eral springs 93 



Mar. 3, 1899 (30 Stat., 1214): 



Right-of-way laws 79 



Wagon roads, railroads, and other highways 79 



Jan. 31, 1901 (31 Stat., 745): 



Mining laws extended to saline lands 59 



Feb. 15, 1901 (31 Stat., 790): 



Rights of way through parks, reservations, and public lands 83 



Mar. 4, 1904 (33 Stat,, 59): 



Amendment section 2294 R. S 43 



Jan. 24, 1905 (33 Stat., 614): 



Wichita game refuge 17, 109 



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