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Public Law 54–40
Relating to final proof in timber-culture entries.
Approved March 4, 1896
Statutory text
An Act
Relating to final proof in timber-culture entries.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That timber-culture claimants shall not be required, in making final proof, to appear at the land officeFIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 40–42. 1896. to which proof is to be presented or before an officer designated by the Act of May twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety, within the county in which the land is situated; but such claimant may have his or
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her personal evidence taken by a United States court commissioner or a clerk of any court of record under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
Approved, .