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 SIXTY·FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cns. 316, 317: 1916. 505 CHAP. 316.- ` ° ’ ‘ citizens of the Umgxid  validate certain declarations of intontnon to become AlT§¥&3916 , [Public, No. 193.] Be tt enacted ty the Senate and Holassegf Representatives of the United States 0{ America an Oorigress assemb, That declarations of inten- ·H!jl;*¤¤¤i¤¢i¤¤ ¤f tion to ecome citizens 0 the United States filed rior to the assage neeimmms ot inof this Act m the counties of Cascade, Chouteau,ll`eton, Hill,]l3laine, §$,“,,§f{’§,“,,°}’ *f,,,@“ and Valley, State of Montana, under the Act approved Jime twenty- v¤¤id¤¢•<r ' mnth, mneteen hundred and six, entitled "An Act to establish a iK1ilis4f;IiZi"$c;ve1. Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization and to provide for a $§;P· 83** V°‘· 3* P- umform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United ` States," as amended by the Acts of March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, and March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, are hereby declared to be as legal and valid as if such declarations of intention had been filed in the judicial district in which the declarants resided, as required by section four of said Act of June twenty-ninth nineteen hundred and six, and that the petitions for naturalization dismissed on account of Bmw such invalidity in the declaration of intention shall be given a rehear- ` ing without additional cost, upon informal application therefor by the candidate for citizenship to the clerk of court upon notice to the P,,,,,,,,_ Bureau of Naturalization: mmited, That such declarations of inten- Am>¤¤¤l¤ only to tion shall not be by this Act further validatedsor leglalized and that mm"' this Act shall apply only to those persons who have eretofore made homestead, desert and or timber and stone entries. Approved, August 11, 1916. ciur. su.-An Act To t certain mas to me smear oregon asa public A .ifiiel§l°‘ park, for the benefit and enjoygixnaeliit of the people. P Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United yum, 1,,,,,, States of America in Congress assembled, That all those certain tracts, m_G;;gg•_§ wk 0¤·s¤¤ graces, or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of D¤scr1pii•i1i.° egon described as follows, to wit: The south half and the northeast quarter of section seven, and the west half and the southeast quarter of section eiglht, and the southwest quarter of section nine, in township five nort, range eight west of the Willamette meridian; and the southwest quarter of section twenty-seven, and the southeast quarter and west half of section twenty-eight, and the north half of section thirty-three, and the northwest quarter of section thirty- four, and the northeast quarter and the southeast quarter of section twenty-nine, in township six north, range eight west of the Willamette meridian, are hereby granted to the State of Qregon as a public park or pleasuring groimd for the benefit and enioyment of the people: Provided, That the atent to be issued for said lands shall contain the rmem. tc provision that the land shall revert to the United States whenever ¤,,,*“_"“”“ "°"‘ it shall not be used for the purposes mentioned m this Act: Provided further, That the Government o the United States of America reseryes r,2`h°;¥l;§g@;g_°**—· “¤° the right to operate and maintain any telegraph or telephone line over and upon said land which is in operation at the passage of this Act, or which it may see fit to establis thereafter. wm mm mpt_ Sec. 2. That there shall be excepted from the {grant hereby! made ai. any lands which at the date of the approval o this Act s all be covered by a valid, existing, bona fide right er  mitiated under P,,,,,,,_ the laws of the United States; Provided, at this exception   not °¤¤¤¤¤¤¤· continue to apply to argl particular tract of land unless the claimant continues to comply wi the law under which the claim or right was initiated Approved, August 11, 1916.