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 1180 SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 47. 1919. Court of the United States under the style and title "The Southern Oregon Company against the United States," the said lands shall P°y'“°“t‘ again become a art of the public domain, and the United States P _ mt db shall pay to the Southern Oregon Company the sum of $232,46307. misgélélttlgcnsdsod exe The execution and delive of the aforesaid deed within thirty days °“'°d· from and after the approvlalr of this Act shall constitute the acceptance of this Act by the said Southern Oregon Company; and ugon the a proval of such deed by the Attorney General of the Unite States tliie aforesaid suit shall be dismissed and all matters of difference, controversg, and litigation between the United States and the said P _ Southern regon Compandy arising out of said land grant shall be ·;·S,’,°5"§’; recoveries deemed fully settled, a justed, and terminated: Provided, That °°°°“°°“°d· nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the United States from instituting and maintaining such suits or actions as may be necessary to recover the value of timber or other material heretofore cut or removed from any of said lands without the consent of the Southern A ro mmm for Oregon Company. _ _ _ ,,,,pEl§, SQA. and im Sec. 2. That the taxes accrued, unpaid, and delmquent on the said °°¤"°Y°d· lands on the date of the delivery of the deed provided for in the preceding section shall bespaid by the Treasurer of the United States upon the order of the ecretary of the Interior as soon as may be after this Act becomes effective, and a sum sufficient to make such payment and also to provide for the payment of the said sum of $232,46307, as provided for in section one of this Act, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. .°l¤”if§*};Q]*5s md Sec. 3. That the said lands shall be classified and disposed of in 301.39, p.218.` the manner provided by the Act of June ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page two hundred and _ eiglhteen), for the claxification and disposition of the Oregon and idigitligiaetztiastes Ca ifornia railroad grant lands: Provided, That such persons who, “°mC°mP°°Y· being citizens of the United States, have continuously leased from the said Southern Oregon Company for a period of not less than ten years, or who imder lease from said company have cultivated and placed valuable improvements upon any of said lands classified as agricultural, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to each ,person, shall be allowed a preference right of six months in which to purchase such lands from the United States b paying therefor the M mm t t sum of $2.50 per acre and reimbuising the United States for the l.,.,,.,§,'°'”§’.§`,;d,,,§” 5.,3 taxes paid on such land: Provided furt cr, That where any of such '°¤°*·°’°· leased lands have been resided upon, to the same extent and in the same manner as is required under the homestead laws, since the first day of December, nineteen hundred and thirteen, by any person du v qéialified to enter such lands claiming adversely to such essee, and w o has improved the land and devoted some portion thereof to agricultural use, and who shall have maintained his residence to the date of his application, the claim of such settler and resident shall be superior to that of the lessee, and he shall be allowed the preference right of entry afforded actual settlers by section five of Tim to money mw the Act of June ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, aforesaid. mam. Sec. 4. That the title to all money arisin out of said lands and now on deposit to await the final outcome od said suit now pending in the Supreme Court, as aforesaid, is hereby vested in the United States, and the United States is subrogated to all the rivhts and remedies of the obligee or obligees, and especially of Iiarry E. Laughim as commissioner, under any contract for the purchase of timber on said lands. m§‘*§§g’;,‘Q%mCOQ§§ Sec. 5. That all moneys received from or on account of said lands ww ¤ speciammu. and timber and the timber thereon under the provisions of this Act shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States in a separate