APPENDIX. FEES AND COMMISSIONS. In Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming the following fees and commissions are allowed by law to Registers and Receivers: Declaratory Statements: Preemption declaratory statement... Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declaratory statement.. Reservoir declaratory statement (Act of January 13, 1897) Mineral and Coal Applications and Adverse Claims: For filing and acting upon each application for a patent.. Timber and Stone Applications: $3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 10.00 10.00 For filing and acting upon each application to purchase Timber and Stone lands. 10.00 NOTE. The commissions must be tendered with the homestead proof, together with testimony fees at 22 cents per 100 words. The commissions are not earned unless the proof is approved. 5.00 3.00 8.00 6.00 3.00 1.50 12.00 6. 00 3.00 Donation Claims: For each Final Certificate of 160 acres For each Final Certificate for 640 acres.. NOTE. The moneys are earned irrespective of the action taken. Military Bounty Land Warrants and Porterfield Warrants: For locating a 160-acre warrant.... For locating a 120-acre warrant. For locating a 40-acre warrant.. No fees are chargeable on warrants issued prior to February 11, 1847. Revolutionary bounty-land scrip is received and accounted for as cash, and no fee is chargeable to parties presenting such scrip. Sales of public lands: $5.00 10.00 15.00 4.00 3.00 2.00 1.50 1.00 The commissions of registers and receivers on cash sales of the public lands are paid by the United States, and no fees or commissions on such sales are chargeable to the purchasers, except in cases of homestead entries on ceded Indian reservations affected by the act of May 17, 1900 (31 Stat., 179), and commuted under the provisions of the act of January 26, 1901 (31 Stat., 740), in which cases the entryman is required to pay a commission of 2 per cent on the cash price of the land (31 L. D., 106). In cases of timber sales in Alaska, the Comptroller of the Treasury has held that the sale of timber is a sale of land and that the Register and Receiver are entitled to 14 per cent each commissions on sales of such timber. State selections: For each final location of 160 acres (or fraction thereof) under any grant of Congress to States (except for agricultural colleges). No fees are chargeable on State swamp-land selections, but a fee of $2 is to be collected on each location of 160 acres, or fraction thereof, made with swamp-land indemnity certificates. $2.00 Railroad selections: For each final location of 160 acres (or fraction thereof) by railroad or other corporations. ... Agricultural college scrip: For each piece of agricultural college scrip located. Private Land Scrip, Valentine Scrip: For each piece of scrip filed on unsurveyed lands.. Supreme Court Scrip: $2.00 4.00 1.00 1.00 No fees or commissions are allowed on the location of Supreme Court Scrip, nor on the location of Indian Scrip or other private land scrip, except as specifically provided for by law or instructions. Reducing Testimony to Writing: Fees for reducing testimony to writing are allowed at the rate of 22 cents for each 100 words, in the following cases: (1) Making final proof in preemption cases when the writing is done in the local land office. (2) Making final proof in commuted and noncommuted homestead and timber culture cases, irrespective of the fact whether or not the writing is done in the local land office, as the fees are allowed for "examining and approving the proof." (3) In establishing claims to mineral lands. However, at present there is no proof in mineral lands which would be reduced to writing in the local land office and entitling the collection of testimony fees. (4) In establishing claims to Timber and Stone lands. (5) In hearings before Registers and Receivers in contest cases. (6) In making final proof on desert-land claims, when the testimony is reduced to writing in the local land offices. Transcripts from Records: Registers and Receivers are entitled to charge at the rate of 10 cents per 100 words for making transcripts of their records for individuals. Plats and Diagrams: Under the second section of the Act of March 3, 1883, authorizing a charge to be made for plats, diagrams, etc., the fees for the same are hereby fixed as follows: For a diagram showing entries only.. $1.00 For a township plat showing entries, names of claimants, and character of entry. 2.00 For a township plat showing entries, names of claimants, character of entry, and number.. For a township plat showing entries, names of claimants, character of entry, 3.00 4.00 For lists of lands sold, which are construed to mean lists of final certificates furnished State or territorial authorities for the purposes of taxation, 10 cents per entry. Cancellation Fees: For giving notices to contestants of the cancellation of any homestead, preemption, or timber-culture entry.... $1.00 In Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, the following fees and commissions are allowed by law to Registers and Receivers: For filing and acting upon each application for a patent. For filing and acting upon each adverse claim.... Timber and Stone Applications: For filing and acting upon each application to purchase timber and stone lands... 10.00 10.00 10.00 NOTE. These commissions must be tendered with the homestead proof, together with testimony fees at 15 cents per hundred words. The commissions are not earned unless the proof is approved. Military Bounty Land Warrants and Porterfield Warrants: For locating a 160-acre warrant... For each final location of 160 acres (or fraction thereof) under any grant of Congress to States (except for agricultural colleges).......... $4.00 2.00 1.00 8.00 4.00 2.00 4.00 3.00 2.00 1.50 1.00 2.00 No fees are chargeable on State swamp-land selections, but a fee of $2 is to be collected on each location of 160 acres or fraction thereof made with swampland indemnity certificates. Railroad and Other Selections: For each final location of 160 acres (or fraction thereof) by railroad or other corporations. Agricultural College Scrip: For each piece of agricultural college scrip located......... Private Land Scrip, Valentine Scrip: For each piece of scrip filed on unsurveyed lands.... Supreme Court Scrip: No fees or commissions are allowed on the location of Supreme Court Scrip nor on the location of Indian Scrip or other private land scrip, except as specifically provided for by law and instructions. Reducing Testimony to Writing: Fees for reducing testimony to writing are allowed at the rate of 15 cents per 100 words. Transcripts from Records: 2.00 4.00 1.00 1. 00 Registers and Receivers are entitled to charge at the rate of 10 cents per 100 words for making transcripts of their records for individuals. Plats and Diagrams: Lists for Taxation Purposes, 10 cents per entry. Soldiers' Additional Homesteads: The fees and commissions in connection with soldiers' additional homestead applications will be computed in the same manner as are ordinary homestead fees and commissions. The original fee and commissions and final commissions will be collected ogether at the same time, and must be applied before certificate issues. t March 3, 1853-Grant of school lands to California. July 1, 1862—Grant to Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads. July 2, 1864- 5 7 5 79, 93 114 324 339 217 330 July 27, 1866-Grant to Atlantic & Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads.. 226 235 Extension of time to Oregon & California Railroad.. 235 224 May 31, 1870–Northern Pacific Railroad authorized to issue bonds. 225 229 April 20, 1871—Atlantic & Pacific Railroad authorized to mortgage.. 230 118 187 276 163 February 11, 1875-Mining claim, money expended in tunnel... May 5, 1876-Missouri and Kansas excepted from mineral laws. Cost of survey of private land claims. Railroads to pay cost of survey. March 1, 1877—Indemnity school lands in California. March 3, 1877- Desert-land entries. 296 187 213 236 325 61 Employees of Geological Survey, no interest in lands.. Settlers on public lands within railroad limits.. July 1, 1879-Settlers on public lands within railroad limits. 205 111 238 239 8 |