Chapter 147. Validating certain applications for, and entries of public lands, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 147.— An Act Validating certain applications for, and entries of public lands, and for other purposes. February 7, 1925.[[S. 2975](/us/bill/68/s/2975).][[Public, No. 366](/us/pl/68/366).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the. United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the SecrePublic lands.810Patents allowed for designated entries.tary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue patents upon the entries hereinafter named upon which proof of compliance with law has been filed, upon the payment of all moneys due thereon:
Guadalupe D. de Romero.Homestead.Homestead entry, Santa Fe, New Mexico, numbered 026282, made by Guadalupe D. de Romero on October 24, 1916, for the west half of the southwest quarter, west half of the northwest quarter, northeast quarter of the northwest quarter, north half of the northeast quarter, and southeast quarter of the northwest quarter, section 17, township 14 north, range 22 east, New Mexico principal meridian. Joseph S. Morgan.Additional homestead.Additional homestead entry, Las Cruces, New Mexico, numbered 017008, made by Joseph S.
Morgan on April 1, 1921, for the southwest quarter of section 30, township 17 south, range 10 east, New Mexico principal meridian. Allie M. Vickers.Additional homestead.Additional homestead entry, Clayton, New Mexico, numbered 028903, made by Allie M. Vickers, widow of James L. Vickers, deceased, on February 2, 1922, for the west half of section 15, township 15 north, range 30 east, New Mexico principal meridian. James A. Wright.Homesteads.Homestead entries, La Grande, Oregon, numbered 014086 and 015372, made by James A.
Wright, for the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter, east half of the southeast quarter, section 13, township 11 south, range 41 east, and lots 2 and 3, southeast quarter of the northwest quarter, northeast quarter of the southwest quarter and northwest quarter of the southeast quarter, section 18, township 11 south, range 42 east, Willamette meridian. John Bond.Homestead.Homestead entry, Lamar, Colorado, numbered 025406, made by John Bond on April 18, 1918, for the west half of the northwest quarter of section 29, and the east half of the northeast quarter of section 30, township 21 south, range 42 west, sixth principal meridian.
Mary A. McKee.Homestead.Homestead entry, Montrose, Colorado, numbered 012686, made by Mary A. McKee (Mary A. Ryan, deceased) on November 4, 1919, for the south half of the north half and the north half of the south half, section 20, south half of the north half and the north half of the south half, section 21, township 42 north, range 13 west, New Mexico principal meridian. Joseph La Fond.Homestead.Homestead entry, Cass Lake, Minnesota, numbered 09951, made by Joseph La Fond on March 9, 1918, for lot 9 of section 17, township 55 north, range 26 west, fourth principal meridian.
Margaret E. Tindall.Homestead.Homestead entry, Blackfoot, Idaho, numbered 028692, made by Margaret E. Askew (now Margaret E. Tindall), on July 10, 1918, for the north half of section 25, township 9 north, range 32 east, Boise meridian. Hudson L. Mason.Homestead.Homestead entry, Missoula, Montana, numbered 08533, made by Hudson L. Mason on August 24, 1920, for lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, and the south half of the northwest quarter, southwest quarter of the northeast quarter, northwest quarter of the southeast quarter, and northeast quarter of the southwest quarter, section 1, township 7 south, range 15 west, Montana principal meridian.
Thomas J. Fox.Homestead.Homestead entry, Bismarck, North Dakota, numbered 019975, made by Thomas J. Fox on August 15, 1918, for lot 4 of section 6, township 148 north, range 83 west, fifth principal meridian, and lot 1 of section 1, township 148 north, range 84 west, fifth principal meridian. Charles A. Kranich.Homestead.Homestead entries, Helena, Montana, numbered 020678 and 021942, made by Charles A. Kranich, for the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter, southwest quarter of the northeast quarter, north half of the southeast quarter and southeast quarter of the southeast quarter, section 30, township 18 north, range 6 west, Montana principal meridian. 811 Homestead entry, Glasgow, Montana, numbered 051366, made by Karl T.
Larson.Homestead.Karl T. Larson on September 21, 1917, for lot 8 of section 29, lots 5 and 6 of section 28, and lot 2 of section 33, township 28 north, range 53 east, Montana principal meridian, such patent to be issued to the heirs of Karl T. Larson, deceased. Sec. 2. That the entries hereinafter named be, and the same Designated entries validated.are hereby, validated, and the Secretary of the Interior authorized to issue patents thereon upon submission of satisfactory proof of compliance with the law under which such entries were allowed:
Homestead entries. Douglas, Wyoming, numbered 026690 and Peter Peterson.Homesteads.026691, made by Peter Peterson on April 20, 1921, for lots 3 and 4 of section 30, and lot 1 of section 31, township 37 north, range 62 west, and the east half of the northeast quarter and the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 20, south half of the northwest quarter and the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 28, township 37 north, range 63 west, sixth principal meridian.
Homestead entry, Douglas, Wyoming, numbered 030379, made by Orin Lee.Homestead.Orin Lee on December 10, 1921, for the south half of section 17, township 36 north, range 85 west, sixth principal meridian. Homestead application, Roswell, New Mexico, numbered 050381, Robert T. Freeland.Homestead.filed by Robert T. Freeland, for the north half of section 24, township 5 south, range 14 east, New Mexico principal meridian, subject to the provisions of the Act of December 29, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 862).
Homestead entry, Santa Fe, New Mexico, numbered 040823, made Charley N. Barnhart.Homestead.by Charley N. Barnhart on August 21, 1922, for the west half of section 12, township 29 north, range 10 east, New Mexico principal meridian. Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, Application allowed.authorized to allow the following application to make entry: Homestead application, Santa Fe, New Mexico, numbered 046215, Feles Montoya.Homestead.filed by Feles Montoya for lot 1 and the east half of the northeast quarter, section 36, township 13 north, range 3 east, and lot 10, section 31, township 13 north, range 4 east, New Mexico principal meridian, effective March 7, 1923, the date filed, and that the State of New Mexico through its proper officers be, and it is hereby, authorized to select one hundred and thirty-four and eighty one-hundredths Selection by New Mexico in lieu.acres of surveyed nonmineral, unappropriated, and unreserved public land in lieu of that part of the above-described tract situate in said section 36.
Sec. 4. That homestead entry, 011279, Montrose, Colorado, embracing Clyde R. Hiatt.Homestead entry may be perfected by legal representatives of.lots 5 to 20, inclusive, section 1, township 48 north, range 8 west, New Mexico principal meridian, may be perfected under the provision of section 2 of the Act of July 28, 1917 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page 248), by the legal representatives of Clyde R. Hiatt. Sec. 5. That Hiram Williams be, and he is hereby, allowed to Hiram Williams.May perfect homestead entry.perfect by acceptable final proof homestead entry, 049024, Roswell, New Mexico, embracing lots 13 and 14, and the east half of southwest quarter of section 6, township 18 south, range 17 east, New Mexico principal meridian, and that the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to allow the application, 049025, Stock-raising entry allowed.Vol. 39, p. 863.Roswell, New Mexico, of said Williams, to make an additional entry under section 4 of the Stock-raising Homestead Act of December 29, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 862), for lots 5 to 12, both inclusive, and southeast quarter of said section 6.
Sec. 6. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, Francis W. Woodward.Patent to, on payment.authorized to issue to Francis W. Woodward a patent for the fractional west half of northwest quarter and the fractional northwest quarter of southwest quarter of section 18, township 28 north, range 8126 west, fourth principal meridian, Wisconsin, upon payment therefor at the rate of $1.25 per acre. Sec. 7. Robert Zullig.Homestead to infant children of. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue a patent to Lukas Zullig and Max Zullig, infant children of Robert Zullig, under homestead entry 06833, Lakeview, Oregon, for the southeast quarter of section 14 and northeast quarter of section 23, township 26 south, range 18 east, Williamette meridian.
Sec. 8. Y. Charles Earl.Purchase by, authorized. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to allow Y. Charles Earl, of Blackshear, Alabama, to purchase at private sale at the rate of $1.25 per acre, the southeast quarter of southeast quarter of section 23, township 3 north, range 3 east, Saint Stephens meridian, Alabama. Sec. 9. Sabine Lumber Company.Purchase by, authorized. That the Sabine Lumber Company, of Saint Louis, Missouri, be, and it is hereby, authorized to purchase at private sale, the southwest quarter of southwest quarter of section 23, township 1 north, range 19 west, fifth principal meridian, Arkansas, at the rate of $1.25 per acre.
Sec. 10. Richard Walsh.Exchange of farm unit by. That Richard Walsh, to whom patent issued on July 10, 1922, for a farm unit under the Klamath irrigation project, be permitted to reconvey the land to the United States and to make entry for a farm unit in another division of the project, the amount of the construction charge already paid by said Walsh to be transferred to the new entry. Sec. 11. Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company.Granted right of way across Post Discovery Bay Military Reservation.Vol. 18, p. 482.Stock raising homesteads.Entries of, on withdrawn oil or gas lands, validated.Vol. 39, p. 862.*Proviso*.Condition.
That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to grant to the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company under the Act of March 3, 1875 (Eighteenth Statutes at Large, page 482), a right of way for its constructed road across the abandoned Post Discovery Bay Military Reservation. Sec. 12. That existing entries allowed prior to April 1, 1924, under the Stock-Raising Homestead Act of December 29, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 862), for land withdrawn as valuable for oil or gas, but not otherwise reserved or withdrawn, are hereby validated, if otherwise regular: *Provided*, That at date of entry the land was not within the limits of the geologic structure of a producing oil or gas field.
Sec. 13. Central Pacific Railway Company.May select other land in lieu of tract relinquished in Nevada. That the Central Pacific Railway Company, upon its filing with the Secretary of the Interior a proper relinquishment, disclaiming in favor of the United States all title and interest in or to lot 1 of section 1, township 16 north, range 22 east, Mount Diablo meridian, in the Carson City, Nevada, land district, under its primary selection list numbered 10, embracing said tract, shall be entitled to select and receive a patent for other vacant, unreserved, nonmineral public lands of an equal area situate within any State Selection by Nevada validated.into which the company’s grant extends; and, further, that upon the filing of such relinquishment by said railway company the selection of the tract so relinquished by the State of Nevada in the approved list numbered 13 be, and the same is hereby, validated.
Approved, February 7, 1925.