RC Drill Set 1, Question 6
In a series of presidential proclamations between 1902(466 more words not shown)
The passage suggests that which(31 more words not shown)
- AThe head of(30 more words not shown)
- BA Tlingit family(34 more words not shown)
- CA Tlingit individual(29 more words not shown)
- DThe head of(29 more words not shown)
- EA Haida individual(37 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Now we have to apply the conditions that made the Act so restrictive. The applicant should be a head of household seeking no more than 160 acres. The claim must also rest on the applicant's own qualifying use, not merely generations of family use. For land inside the Tongass, that means personal adult use before the land entered the forest.
Working the answers
- A
Use during 1909–1912 doesn't establish that this applicant used the land before it had government-recognized ownership. Being adjacent to the forest doesn't settle the land's eligibility either. D gives us a much clearer basis for satisfying the earlier-use requirement.
- B
A family's joint title is the kind of ownership arrangement the Act's individual-property approach failed to accommodate. Collective use doesn't fix that mismatch.
- C
The ancestors' use isn't the applicant's personal adult use. “Based solely” on that ancestral history leaves the required basis missing.
- DCorrect
We have a head of household, only 20 acres, and personal use from 1875 to 1900. That 25-year period provides the strongest basis for adult use before any of the 1902–1909 forest designations. The claim fits the individual ownership model as well.
- E
Someone born in 1900 would still have been a child throughout the forest's establishment. Birth on the land and earlier family use don't establish the required adult use.
More Application questions
Learn the LSAT our way
Our platform drills Application questions at your level and adjusts as you improve.