Chapter 804. To amend chapter two of the laws passed by the first session of the Fifty-fifth Congress of the United States, being an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other p
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CHAP. 804.— An Act To amend chapter two of the laws passed by the first session of the Fifty-fifth Congress of the United States, being an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes,” approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. June 6, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That chapter two of the laws Public lands.Appraisal and sale of dead, etc., timber.Vol. 80, p. 35 amended.of the first session of the Fifty-fifth Congress, being an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes.” approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, be. and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the following words where the same appear in said Act, commencing with the word “Before,” in line thirty-six, on page thirty-five of volume thirty of the United States Statutes at Large, and ending with the word “exists,” in the forty-third line of said volume and page, as follows:
“Before such sale shall take place notice thereof shall Notice of sale.be given by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, for not less than sixty days, by publication in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county in which the timber is situated, if any is therein published, and if not then in a newspaper of general circulation published nearest to the reservation, and also in a newspaper of general circulation published at the capital of the State or Territory where such reservation exists,” and insert in lieu thereof the following:
“Before such sale shall take place notice thereof shall be given by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, for not less than thirty days, by publication in one or more newspapers of general circulation, as he may deem necessary, in the State or Territory where such reservation exists: *Provided, however*, That in cases of unusual *Provisos.*Emergency, etc., sales in advance of advertisement.emergency the Secretary of the Interior may. in the exercise of his discretion, permit the purchase of timber and cord wood in advance of advertisement of sale at rates of value approved by him and subject to payment of the full amount of the highest bid resulting from the usual advertisement of sale: *Provided farther*, That he may, in his discretion, sell without advertisement, in quantities to suit applicants, at a fair appraisement, timber and cord wood not exceeding in value one hundred dollars stumpage: *And provided further*, That in cases Private sale where bid unsatisfactory, etc.in which advertisement is had and no satisfactory bid is received, or in eases in which the bidder fails to complete the purchase, the timber may be sold, without further advertisement, at private sale, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, at not less than the appraised valuation, in quantities to suit purchasers: *And provided further*, That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to existing forest California forest reservations excepted.reservations in the State of California, or to reservations that may be hereafter created within said State. ” Approved, June 6, 1900.