Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1903 — PUBLIC DOMAIN. [ARTICLE]

PUBLIC DOMAIN.

Concurrent Resolution Aimed at Illegal Fencing of Lands. Washington dispatch: Representative Burleson of Texas introduced a concurrent resolution directing the secretary of the interior to report what steps have been taken to prevent the alleged fencing of the public domain in New Mexico, Wyoming and Nebraska, the number of applications or filings for a part of the public domain in Nebraska and Wyoming during the years 1901 and 1902 and other information. The attorney general also is instructed to institute suits to declare all fraudulent appropriation of said lands void and secure judgments restoring said lands to the public domain.