Chapter 559.
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CHAP. 559.— An act to amend section eight of an act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An act to repeal timber culture laws and for other purposes.”March 3, 1891. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Repeal of timber culture laws. *Post*, p. 1099, amended. That section eight of an act entitled “An act to repeal timber culture laws, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 8. That suits by the United States to vacate and annul anySuits to annul patents, to be brought in six years. patent heretofore issued shall only be brought within five years from the passage of this act, and suits to vacate and annul patents hereafter issued shall only be brought within six years after the date of the issuance of such patents. And in the States of Colorado. Montana,Timber depredation suits in certain states, etc. Idaho, North Dakota, and South Dakota, Wyoming, and the District of Alaska, and the gold and silver regions of Nevada and 1094FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Chs. 559, 560. 1891. the Territory of Utah in any criminal prosecution or civil action by the United States for a trespass on such public timber lands or to Defense.recover timber or lumber cut thereon it shall be a defense if the defendant shall show that the said timber was so cut or removed from the timber lands for use in such State or Territory by a resident thereof for agricultural, mining, manufacturing, or domestic purposes under rules and regulations made and prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior and has not been transported out of the same, but Railway companies.nothing herein contained shall operate to enlarge the rights of any railway company to cut timber on the public domain, provided that Rules, etc.the Secretary of the Interior may make suitable rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this act, and he may designate the sections or tracts of land where timber may be cut, and it shall not Timber on mineral lands.be lawful to cut or remove any timber except as may be prescribed by such rules and regulations, but this act shall not operate to Vol. 20, p. 88.repeal the act of June third, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, providing for the cutting of timber on mineral lands.
" Approved, March 3, 1891.