Chapter 507. For the relief of bona fide settlers in forest reserves
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CHAP. 507.— An Act For the relief of bona fide settlers in forest reserves. April 15, 1902. [[Public, No. 74](/us/pl/57/74).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Public lands. Relief of bona fide settlers on forest reserves. Vol. 26, p. 1103. That where a claimant under the settlement laws of the United States within the limits of a forest reserve created under the provisions of section twenty-four of the Art of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes, has failed, by reason of ignorance,of the proclamation of the President, or of the tiling of the township plat of survey, or from unavoidable accident or conditions, or from misunderstanding of the law, to place his claim ofTime extended for filing claims. record within the statutory period, such claimant may be permitted within a period of two years from and after the passage of this Act to tile bis claim in the proper United States land office and receive patent therefor upon showing due compliance with the law under which thePrior settlement required. claim is asserted, notwithstanding the reservation, provided that he made bona fide settlement upon the land claimed prior to the date of the proclamation establishing the forest reserve and maintained continuous residence thereon for the requisite period.
The benefits ofPending claims. this Act shall extend to bona tide claims already received by the local land offices after the statutory period, and for which patents have not issued, provided the settlers have complied with the provisions of the law except, as to the time of tiling their claims. Approved, April 15, 1902.