White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-07-02
PUBLIC MISREPRESENTATION

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3, 1s43 The regulations which we hero pre-
sent have been compiled fron instructions Is
sued from the General Land Office 10 the regis
tiers and receivers, and viii be found to contain
all tia information requisite to enable pre-emp-
tors to avail themselves Of the privileges of the
ac:.
The individual claiming the benefits of the
act Of 1871. as amended by the act of 1913, must
be-
| l. Either citizen Of the United States, OF
have fled his declaration Of intention to become
citizen at the time of the settlement on which
his claim is based.
9. Either the head of family, or widow,
ora single man over the age Of tEenty-One
years.
3. An inhabitantof the tract sought to be en-
tered, upon which in person he has nade SET
Element and erected dwelling house, and 9th
erwise improved said tract since the LIST Of June,
1910, and prior to the time when the land is ap-
piled for; which land must, at the date Of
the settlement, have had the Indian title entin-
guished, and been surveyed by the United
| States.
| By the ninth section Of the act of the Sd of
March, 1913, the entry Of a claim under the act
of the 4th of septsAber, ls4l, may be made,
although it may be for land not surveyed at the
time of the settlement, where such settlement
was made prior to the 9Th of September, ls41,
and after the extinguishnent of the Indian title.
A person failing in any one of these requi-
sites can have no claim by virtue of this act
A person bringing himself within each Of the
above requirements by proof satisfactory to the
register and receiver of the land-district in
which the lands may lie, taken pursuant to the
rules hereinafter prescribed, will, after having
taken the affidavit required by the act, entitled
to enter, by legal subdivisions, any number of
acres not exceeding one hundred and sixty, or
quarter-section, to include his residence, and he
may avail himself of the same at any time prior
to the day of the commencement Of the public
sale, including said tract where the land has not
yet been proclaimed.
Where the land was subject to private entry
at the date of the law, and settlement there
after be made upon such land. or where the land
shall have become, or shall hereafter become,
subject to private entry, and after that period a
settlement shall be made, which the settler is
disirous of securing under this act, such notice
of his intention must be given within thirty days
after the date of such settlement. Such notice
in all cases, must be written one, describing
the land settled upon, and declaring the inten-
ton Of such person to claim the same under
the provisions of this act. (See forms and p
The proof, affidavit, and payment, must be made
within twelve months after Che date of such set
Element.
Where the land has not bern offered at public
sale, and thus rendered subject to private entry,
asimilar " notice in writing" must be filed with
in three months after settlement Tor sooner, if
the land is proclaimed for sale;) and the proof,
payment, and affidavit of the claimant must be
made before the day fixed for the common cement
of the public sale which shall include the tract
claimed. (See form 81
A person who has filed or who shall hereafter
file, according to law, a declaratory Statement:
for trast of land subject to private entry, may
enter the same after the twelve months from the
time of this settlement shall have expired, with
out fling any proof of his right as pre- emptor,
provided he is the first applicant, after that time,
for the entry of the same at private sale.
The tracts liable to entry under these acts are
some one of the following designations:
/. A regular quarter section, Notwithstanding
its quantity, may be few acres more or less
than one hundred and sixty; or quarter-section,
which; though fractional in quantity by the pas
sage of a navigable stream through the same,
is still bounded by regular sectional and quarter
sectional lines.
2. A fractional section, containing not over
one hundred and sixty acres, or any tract being
detached or anomalous survey, made pursuant to
law, and not exceeding said quantity.
3. Two adjoining half-quarter sections of the
regular quarters mentioned in the first designa-
zion; or, two adjoining eighty acre subdivisions
of the irregular quarters found on the north and
Ut side Of townships, where more than two
such subdivisions exist, or the excess may render
themnecessary, provided in the latter case the
aggregate quantity does not exceed one hundred
and sixty acres.
4. Two halfquarter or eighty acre subdivis-
ions of fractional er broken section, adjoining
each ether, the aggregate quantity not exceeding
one hundred and sixty acres
5. A regular half-qukfter and an adjoining
fractional section, or an adjoining halfquarter
subdivision of fractional section, the aggregate
quantity not exceeding one hundred and sixty
acres.
s. If the pre-emptor should not wish to enter
the quantity of one hundred and sixty acres, he
may enter single hslf-quarter section, or an
eighty acre subdivision of fractional section.
Z. One or more adjoining forty acre lots may
be entered, the aggregate not exceeding one
hundred and sixty acres.
8. Aregular half-quarter,' a half-quarter sub
division, or fractional section, may each be IA
ken with one or more forty acre subdivisions ly-
ing adjoining, the aggregate not exceeding one
hundred and sixty acres.
Forty acre tracts, or quarter quarter sections,
are subject TO entry, selection or location, pre-
cisely in the same manner that eighty acre
tracts, or halfquarter sections, have heretofore
been.
Only one person on = quarter-section is pro-
tected by this law, and that is the one who made
the .fSst settlement, provided he shall have con-
formed TO the other provisions of the law.
A person who has once sOailed himself of the