The Placer herald., 1870-06-25
AUBURN, PLACER COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, JUNE 25 1870
Sscond-Wbat is your agei Are you

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married or singlel 'r saflte Ga
Third-Ars you citizen Of the United
Stated II not, have you declared your in
tention to become sucb'
Fourth-Wben did you settle on the land
claimed BY youl ae7ea
Fihh--Describs it according to the Gov
ernment survey. thus: ut is the - town
ship - north, range - east"
Upon receiving these answers, the decls-
tory statement will be prepared here, if the
land is open to pre- emption, and sent TO
claimant, who can sign it in the presence Of
one witness. and iuclose it addressed to the
United States Land Office, Sacramento"
for filing, a certificate Of which will be
returned to the party fling.
IN HOMESTEAD CLAIMS.
Personal application must be made at this
office, except in cases Of sickness, distance,
or like cause, whereby the applicant is pre-
vented from such personal application
Every person qualified. as before stated, is
entitled to one presumption. and also one
HOMESTEAD claim, but 10th claims cannot be
lawfully pending at the same time. In each
case personal residence is required upoo the
tract OF land claimed. After perfecting a
pre-emptiou claim. the same person can
take homestead claim. Iu homestead
claims Ave years residence is required to per,
feet a title; but if the claimant does not wish
to wait that time, he can prove up. as in
preemplion, and pay for the land. Outside
Of railroad limits s-and inside, where the
settlement was made before the Withdrawal
for railroad purposes-the price is Que dol
lar and twenty-five cents per acre; inside o
such limits, where the settlement was made
after the grant, the price is two dollars and
fifty cents per acre. This, as to settlement,
applies 10 pre'emption only; but in home
stead the application takes effect only from
the date Of filing.
The odd numbered sections along.the line
of The c. p r. R. a1d w. F. r. r. were
Withdrawn for railr Dad purposes as follows
for The c. ?. R. R, September 18th, 1862,
to the fifteen mile limits, and Oct. 4tb, 1864,
to the twenty-five mile limits. Afterwards
restored to the twenty mile limits For the
w. Z. Il. t., January 3Olh aud 3lst, 1865.
to the twenty five mile limits. Only one
withdrawal. Also afterwards Withdrawn to
the twenty mile limits.
e. Where vald.preemption settlement was
made before the withdrawal upon an odd
numbered section where the Land was sur
veyed, and The claimant has heretofore tail
ed to file bis claim in The land Office, the
recent instruction OF the Secretary Of the
Interior is understood to allow three months
after this date June lst, ls70) for such FL
ing, and in case Of failure to tils such claims
before September 1st, 1870, the same will
be held as forfeited.
Between twenty and thirty townships
have been recently surveyed in this Land
District, mostly iu the counties of Nevada,
FL Dorado, 4Amador, Calaveras, aud Tuol-
umne; also soma townships in Sacramento
and San Joaquin counties. The surveys are
still progressing. Ooly two township plats
have yet been filed in this Office of these re-
range | | east. and 8 north, range east; but
il is expected that the other pats will be
filed without unreasonable delay Notice of
such fling will be published at the time Of
fling in the Sacramento daily newspapers.
Inquiries relative TO the surveys should be
addressed to the "UDited " States Surveyor
General at San Francisco" instead Of to this
office. There are in this district millions OF
acres Of good agricultural lands sbuiect to
pre- emptiou and homestead claims. These
Iauds will be found mostly iu the foothills OF
the Sierra Nevada; but there are vacant
lands yet 10 every county 10 this district,
which includes in whole o. 10 part the coun.
ties Of Sierra, Nevada, Placer, Ell Dorado,
Alpine, Amador. Calaveras Tuolrmpe, Mono,
San Joaquin, Contra Costa, Solano, Yolo,
Suffer, PIumas and Sacramento.
The foregoing, it is believed, will answer
most Of the inquiries made at this Office
Further information will be furnished |
upon application.
JOHN G. MoCALLUM Register.
"a PENNSYLVANIA lawyer" thus gets after
lovely women. I ;mDeacb her in the name Of |