Chapter 34. For the relief of homestead settlers in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan
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CHAP. 34.— An Act For the relief of homestead settlers in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan.January 19, 1895. Whereas during the summer and autumn of eighteen hundred andPreamble ninety-four extensive forest fires prevailed in northern Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, resulting in the death of many homesteaders and their families, the destruction of their property and effects, and of much of the green timber growing upon them, which homesteads are valuable chiefly for the timber standing and growing on them; and, Whereas under existing law homesteaders are not allowed to cut or sell green or burned timber, except for the purpose of clearing and improving, and all burned timber not cut within a short period will become worthless and a loss to the settler and the Government:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands. That all such persons actually occupying homesteads in said States of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Chs. 34, 36, 37. 1895.635 Michigan at the time of such fires, upon claims under the laws of theHomestead settlers in burnt districts, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, given two years for filial proof. United States, on lands of the United States, whose property and buildings were destroyed by such fires, and the heirs of all such persons who perished by such fires, and all persons who by reason of such fires and loss of property were obliged to leave their homesteads, are hereby granted two years’ additional time in which to make final proof.
And temporary absence for any period within two years from the date of this Act shall be deemed constructive possession and residence, but shall not be deducted from the time required to make final proof. Sec. 2. That all persons whose property was destroyed by such fires,Patents when property burned, etc. and the heirs of all persons who were actual occupants of the homesteads at the time of the fire, and who lost their lives in and by that fire, may, by proving such actual occupancy at the date of such fires, make proof showing compliance with the law up to the date of the fire, and shall make payment at the minimum price under existing statutes, in the same manner as if such claimants were alive, and upon receipt of such proof of loss of property by such fires, or death of the claimant, heirs surviving, and upon payment as aforesaid, a patent shall be issued to such claimant, or his or her heirs.
Sec. 3. That the claimant upon any homestead, who by reason of notPermission to cut timber by persons losing by fires.[R. S., sec. 2301, p. 421](/us/rs/s2301/p421).Vol. 26, p. 1008. having lived thereon the necessary length of time to enable him to commute under section twenty-three hundred and one of the Revised Statutes as amended by the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, his heirs, executor, administrator, or guardian of his minor heirs, may, when the quantity of timber destroyed upon his or her homestead shall not exceed seventy-five thousand feet of merchantable green timber, file an estimate in the land office where such homestead was entered with such reasonable proofs as the Commissioner of Public Lands may prescribe, as to the quantity of timber destroyed upon any sectional subdivision, and thereupon the register and receiver may, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Lands, issue a license or permit to cut the burned timber on any homestead or sectional fraction thereof, upon payment of the sum of one dollar and twenty-fivePayment. cents per acre for such sectional subdivision, and the Government shall issue a patent for the same to the claimant or his or her heirs.
Approved, January 19, 1895. Chapter 36: To make disposition of the accretions upon the fund received by the Government of the United States upon the account of the payment of the Caracas awards of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and to apply said accretions to the payment of the new awards made in eighteen hundred and eighty-nine and eighteen hundred and ninety under the Washington Commission. Chapter 36 28 Stat. 635 1895-01-21 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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