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BULLETIN 1001, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
D. — Principal United States statutes relating to Indian homesteads, allotments, and 
reservations as applicable to the Southwest — Continued. 
Act. 
Designation. 
Date. 
Principal provisions. 
Allotments. 
24 Stat., 388... 
Feb. 8, 1887 
25 Stat., 612... 
30 Stat. ,83. 
Oct. 19,1888 
June 7, 1897 
Indians not residing on reservation, or for 
whose tribe no reservation has been provided, 
who shall make settlement upon any sur- 
veyed or unsurveyed lands of the United 
States not otherwise appropriated shall be 
entitled fro same as allotments. In ease lands 
are unsurveyed, grants shall be adjusted upon 
the survey "of the lands so as to conform 
thereto. 
Upon completion of allotments and issuance 
of patents all Indians shall be considered full 
citizens of the United States. 
Provision for purchase by U. S. from Indians 
of lands not needed by them; such lands to 
be used for sole purpose of securing homes to 
actual settlers. 
Indians holding patents to land on reservations 
may in discretion of Secretary of Interior 
surrender such patents and select other lands 
in lieu thereof. 1 
If by reason of age, disability or inability, any 
allottee of Indian lands can not personally or 
with benefit to himself occupy or improve his 
allotment, it may be leased for farming or 
grazing for a term "not exceeding three years. 
1 Indians with lands outside of reservations apparently could not dispose of them until patent issues, 
without special act of Congress. 
LEGISLATION PROPOSED AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER. 
Following is a tabulated list of the principal bills that have been proposed at one 
time or another, with a view to giving better control of the arid grazing lands. Their 
more important provisions are shown. A table showing the provisions of some of the 
more important systems of leasing grazing lands that are in successful operation is 
also given. ( 
E. — Principal bills introduced in Congress relating to disposal of public lands other than 
by homesteading . 
Designation. 
Date intro- 
duced. 
Principal provisions. 
H. R. 5061. 
Jan. 3, 1900 
Mr. Stephens. 
H. R. 13391 Fifty-sixth 
Congress. 
Jan. 8, 1901 
Mr. King. 
Purpose, to provide for leasing public lands for 
grazing purposes. Lands to be leased by 
Commissioner of General Land Office; prefer- 
ence to be given bona fide settlers for 90 
days— then to be leased to highest bidder. 
Land with permanent water to be leased for 
maximum period of 5 years at not less than 
3 cents per acre. Land without permanent 
water to be leased for maximum period of 10 
years at not less than 2 cents per acre. Lease 
' must be for personal use of lessee; no lease to 
exceed 2 sections of watered land and 6 sec- 
tions of dry grazing land. Encouragement 
to be given water development- by option on 
grazing privileges for 90-day period. Persons 
leasingto have right to purchaselands leased; 
improvements to be considered personal 
property. Lands suitable for agriculture 
may be withheld from lease. 
All vacant publlclands and water rights thereto 
to be ceded to Western States in which such 
lands are located, States not to lease or dis- 
pose of such lands in larger tracts than 320 
acres to any one person or association. 
