Chapter 950. To extend the provisions of the homestead laws to certain lands in the Yellowstone Forest Reserve

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CHAP. 950.— An Act To extend the provisions of the homestead laws to certain lands in the Yellowstone Forest Reserve. March 15, 1906. [[H. R. 13673](/us/bill/34/hr/13673).] [[Public, No. 46](/us/pl/34/46).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Yellowstone Forest Reserve.Homestead 1aws extended to certain lands in. That the general provisions of the homestead laws of the United States be, and the same are hereby, extended to and over the surveyed lands in townships forty-eight, forty- nine, and fifty, and ranges one hundred and five and one hundred and six, within the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, and the said lands shall be subject to entry ninety days after the passage of this Act, within which ninety day period the Secretary of Agriculture may set aside such portions of said lands as were not occupied by a bona fide settler January first, nineteen hundred and six, not to exceed in the aggregate one 63hundred and sixty acres, as may be necessary for forest reserve administrativeLand reserved for forestry administration.*Proviso.*No commutation. purposes, which lands so set aside shall not be subject to settlement entry or location during the life of the forest reserve: *Provided*, Rights of prior settlers revived.

That the commutation clause of the homestead laws shall not apply to the said lands, and any bona fide settler who made settlement on said lands prior to January first, nineteen hundred and six, and who had prior to that time lost or exercised his homestead right, may enter and perfect title to the lands settled upon by him as though his homestead right had not been lost or exercised, upon the payment of the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for the laud included in his entry at the time of making final proof.

Approved, March 15, 1906.