The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-05-31
NOTICE TO Settlers ON OsAGH
LANDS.

wAsHsaToS, d. c., May %, ls:s
Resisfer end Receiver, Wichita, Kansas.
GENTLEMEN / inclose herewith
copy of ''an act for the relief of settler.
on the Usage lands in the state of Kan
sas," approved on the 9Th inst.
The first section provides for the dis
| posal Of the Usage trust and diminished
reserve housekeeping the 10th and
36th sectiOns-tO the amount Of l6(
acres or one quarter section to each &C
tual bOna-fide settler, qualified to enter
government lands, for cash only, at
$l.25 per acre, in compact form as re-
quircd by the presumption laws. This
modifies the square form" require
ment Of the act of 18th July, 1870.
Under the second section, any actual
settler on these lands who failed to pay
for his claim in the time allowed by
the act of July 18th, 1870, is allowed
three months from May 9th, 1872, in
which to place his declaratory filing
in the local Office, if not already done,
and until the LIST day of January 1873,
in which to prove up and pay for the
tract 80 filed for, with this proriso,
that such settler be required to pay in
terest OH the amount due from him, at
the rate Of five per cent. per annum,
from the time, such payment should
have been made. up to the time of actual
payment.
You will therefore compute and
charge the proper interest in such case
in permitting entries Of this class.
The third and last section of the act,
allows the party who may have sold a
claim on these lands prior to April 26,
1871, the right of entry on tract on
which settlement has been made sub
sequent to said April 26tb, 1871, upon
salts factory proof of good faith in such
subsequent settlement.
The second proviso relieves from
certain restrictions Of the law, those
settlers actually residing upon their
lands at the date of its passage.
Very respectfully,
WILLIS DRUMMoND.
Commissioner.
AN ACT for the relief of settlers on
the Usage lands in the state of Kan
sas.
BE 1t enacted By the senate and house
Of representative Of the United States
of -4merica in congress assembled,
That the Usage Indian trust and dim
inished reserve lands in the state of
Kansas, excepting the sixteenth and
thirty-sixtis sections in each township,
shall be subject to disposal, for cash
only, to actual settlers, in quantities
not exceeding one hundred and sixty
acres, or one quarter-sectiOn to each,
in compact form, in accordance with
the general principles of the pre-emp-
ton laws, under the direction of the
of the general land-Office:
P'Orided, That claimants shall file
their declaratOry statements as pre-
scribed in other cases upon unOffered
lands, and shall pay for the tracts, re-
spectively, settled upon within one
year from date of settlement, where the
plat of survey is ON file at that date,
and within one year from the filing of
the township plat in the district Office
where such plat is not on file at date of
Sec. 2. That any actual settler upon
these lands who may have failed to
pay for and enter the land settled upon
by him under the act of July fifteenth,
eighteen hundred and seventy. shall
have three months from the date of
his act in which to file his declaratory
and shall be required to
prove up his claim and pay for the
and before the first day Of January,
Eighteen hundred and scvcnty-thrcc. |
And in case of failure of any party to !
comply with the provisions of this act,
he land claimed by him or her shall be |
subject to the settlement and entry of |
If any other qualified person: P'orid-
I'd, That all the persons availing them
'elves of the provisions Of this section
hall be required to pay, and there shall
De collected from them, at the time of
making payment for this land, inter-
st on the total amounts paid by them
at the rate Of five per
,entum per annum, from the date at
which they would have been required
% make payment under the act of July
fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seven
v, until the date of actual payment:
PrOeided further, That the twelfth
ection of said act of July fifteenth,
eighteen hundred and seventy, is here
~ SO amended that the aggregate
mount of the proceeds of sale received
,riOr to the first day Of March of each
ear shall be the amount upon which
he payment of interest shall be based.
SEC. 8. That the sale or transfer of
lis or her claim upon any portion of
hose lands by any settler prior to the
ssuc of the commissioner 5 instructions
f April twenty-sixth, eighteen hum
red and seventy-one, shall not operate
0 preclude the right of entry, under
he provisions Of this act, upon anOths
r tract settled upon subsequent to
UGH sale or transfer: Pforided. That
proof Of good faith be fur
ished upon such subsequent settle
nent: Prorided further, That the re-
trictiOns Of the presumption laws re-
sting to previous enjoyment Of the
redemption right, to removal from
mes own land in the same state, or
he ownership of over three hundred
nd twenty acres. shall not apply to
ny settler actually residing on his or
err claim at the date Of the passage
{ this act
Approved May 9th 1872.
STATE NEWS. Il