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[CITE: 43USC1181]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
      CHAPTER 28--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS
 
                      SUBCHAPTER IV--TIMBER CULTURE
 
Sec. 1181. Repeal of laws

    An Act entitled ``An Act to amend an Act entitled `An Act to 
encourage the growth of timber on the western prairies,' '' approved 
June 14, 1878, and all laws supplementary thereto or amendatory thereof 
are repealed: Provided, That this repeal shall not affect any valid 
rights accrued or accruing under said laws but all bona fide claims 
lawfully initiated prior to March 3, 1891, may be perfected upon due 
compliance with law, in the same manner, upon the same terms and 
conditions, and subject to the same limitations, forfeitures, and 
contests as if this section had not been passed: Provided further, That 
the following words of the last clause of section 2 of said Act, namely, 
``That not less than twenty-seven hundred trees were planted on each 
acre,'' are repealed: Provided further, That in computing the period of 
cultivation the time shall run from the date of the entry, if the 
necessary acts of cultivation were performed within the proper time: 
Provided further, That the preparation of the land and the planting of 
trees shall be construed as acts of cultivation, and the time authorized 
to be so employed and actually employed shall be computed as a part of 
the eight years of cultivation required by statute: Provided further, 
That if trees, seeds, or cuttings were in good faith planted as provided 
by law and the same and the land upon which so planted were thereafter 
in good faith cultivated as provided by law for at least eight years by 
a person qualified to make entry and who has a subsisting entry under 
the timber-culture laws, final proof may be made without regard to the 
number of trees that may have been then growing on the land: And 
provided, That any person who has made entry of any public lands of the 
United States under the timber-culture laws, and who has for a period of 
four years in good faith complied with the provisions of said laws and 
who is an actual bona fide resident of the State or Territory in which 
said land is located shall be entitled to make final proof thereto, and 
acquire title to the same, by the payment of $1.25 per acre for such 
tract, under such rules and regulations as shall be prescribed by the 
Secretary of the Interior, and such officers as the Secretary may 
designate shall be allowed the same fees and compensation for final 
proofs in timber-culture entries as is now allowed by law in homestead 
entries: And provided further, That no land acquired under the 
provisions of this section shall in any event become liable to the 
satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the issuing of the 
final certificate therefor.

(Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, Sec. 1, 26 Stat. 1095; Mar. 3, 1893, ch. 208, 27 
Stat. 593; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 
7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)

                       References in Text

    An Act entitled ``An Act to amend an Act entitled `An Act to 
encourage the growth of timber on the western prairies,' '' approved 
June 14, 1878, referred to in text, is act June 14, 1878, ch. 190, 20 
Stat. 113, which is not classified to the Code.

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies 
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of 
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, 
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out 
under section 1451 of this title.
    ``Such officers as the Secretary may designate'' substituted for 
``registers'' on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. 
See note set out under section 1 of this title.
