The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1870-11-03
IMPORTANT TO PRE.EMPTION SET.
TIERS.
j DEPARTMENT. OF TIE INTERIOR, I
4ENERAL LAM 0FrIcc .In1v 20. 1910

j DEPARTMENT. OF TIE INTERIOR, /
GENERAL LAND OFFICE, July 80, 1870.
The toll wing is an act approved
July IA, 1870, to extend the provisions
Of the preemption laws to the Territory
Of Colorado, and for other purposes
"Be 1t enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives Of the United
States of America IN Congress assem-
bled, That the privileges Of the act Of
May thlrtieth, eighteen hundred and
sixty two, entitled An act to reduce
the expenses of.the surverg and sale Of
the public lands in the United States
be, and the same are hereby, extended
to Colorado; and the proviso Of the
first section of the act approved June
second, eighteen hundred aud sixty-two,
entitled "And act to establish a land
Office in the Territory Of Colorado, and
for other PURPOSES is hereby repealed.
Sec 2. Ind be It farther enacted,
That nothing in the act 0: Congress
approved March twenty. seven, ell shteen
hundred and fifty-four, entitled can
act for the relief Of settlers on lands
reserved fer railroad purposes" shall be
construed to rell eve such settlers from
the obligation to file the proper notices
of their claims, as in other cases; and
all claimants Of pre- -emptiou rights shall
hereafter, when no shorter period of
time is now prescribed by law, make
the proper proof aud payment for the
lands claimed, within eighteen months
after the date prescribed for filing their
declaratory notices shall havo expired F.:
Provided, That where said date shall
have elapsed before the passage Of this
act, said pre-emptors shall have one
year after the passage hereof in which
to make such proof and payment"
This act leaves the provisions Of law
as heretofore respecting "offered lauds,' y
w: fling within Thirty days, and
! ayment within twelve months after SET
Element.
The settler on surveyed "unoffered
land" must file his or her declaratory
statement within three mouths from
tie date of his or her settlement on
such land, and, within Ell ghteen months
from the expiration of said three
months, make the proper proof, and pay
for such land.
Where settlers had already filed be-
fore the passage Of the act, they are re.
quired to make proof aud payment
within one year from such passage
therefore, all filings made prior TO that
date will expire, by limitation Of law
upon unofered lands, on tho 18th Of
July, 1871.
The settler on "unsurvoyed land
must file his or her declaratory state
ment within three months from th<
date of the receipt at the district lane
Office Of the approved plat Of the town
ship embracing the tract upon which
he or she has settled, and, within
eighteen months from the expiration ol
said three months, make the proper
proof, aod pay for such tract.
The proviso of the act of June 2,
1862, requiring fling within six
months from survey in the field, and
providing for fling with the Surveyor
General, is repealed.
Circular instructions to registers anc
receivers, giving more specific details
will shortly be issued. In the mean
time, those officers will be governed by
this notice.
:. JOS. s. WILSON,
/ Commissioner