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54TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. $ REPORT
1st Session. * No. 294.
FORT KLAMATH HAY RESERVE.
FEBRUARY 7, 1896.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state
of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Mr. ELLIS, from the Committee on the Public Lands, submitted the
following
REPORT:
[To accompany H. R. 5286.]
The Committee on the Public Lands, to whom was referred the bill
SH. R. 5286) for disposal of Fort Klamath hay reserve, submit the
following report:
The body of land sought to be restored to the public domain by this
bill consists of about 2,000 acres. It was originally set apart as a hay
reserve for the use of the United States military post at Fort Klamath,
Oreg., which fort has long since been abandoned and the post vacated.'
The land embraced within the reserve has been transferred from the
jurisdiction of the War Department to that of the Department of the
Interior. Under existing law the land is not subject to homestead
entry.
It being desirable that occupation by bona fide settlers shall be
encouraged as to said lands, and in consideration of the fact that the
Commissioner of the General Land Office, under date of January 23,
1895, recommended as follows:
After further consideration of the subject, and influenced by a wish to secure for
actual settlers every possible facility for acquiring homes, I may state * *
that I now amend the report of September 12, 1894, and recommend that the two
small reservations under consideration be divided into 40-acre tracts, and that the
lands be disposed of under the homestead laws.
Of the two small reservations referred to, the Fort Klamath hay
reserve is one.
By the bill reported, which was drafted by the Department, it will
be seen that 80 acres is made the limit of homestead entries on said
tract instead of 40 acres, and your committee so report, and recommend
the passage of the bill without amendment.
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