The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-04-30
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LAWS OF THE D. STATES.
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act shall be required to break ten acres of the land
covered thereby the first year, ten the second
year. and twenty acres the third year after date Of
entry, and to plant ten acres of timber the second
year, ten acres the third year. and twenty the
fourth year after date of entry. A party making an
entry of eighty acres shall break and plant al the
times hereinhefOre prescribed, one-haf of the
quantity required of party who enters a quarter
section and party entering forty acres shall break
and plant, at the times hereinbefore prescribed
one-quarter of the quantity required of party who
enters quarter-sectiOn, prOportionate quanti-
ty for any smaller fractional subdivision: froDid-
ed, hoWecer, That no final certificate shall be given
or patent issued for the land so entered until the
expiration of eight years from the date of such en-
try; and, if at the expiration of such time or at
any time within five years thereafter, the person
making such entry, or if he or she be dead his or
her heirs or legal representatives, shall prove by
two credible illnesses, that he, she or they have
planted, and for not less than eight years. have cu
dvated and protected such quantity and character
OF timber as aforesaid, they shall receive patenf
for such quarter-sectiOn or legal subdivision OF
eighty or forty of land or for any fractional
quantity of less than forty acres as herein proyid
ed. And IN case OF the death Of person who has
complied with the provisions of this for the pc
rod OF three years, his heirs legal representa-
tves shall have the option to comply with the pro
visions OF this act and receive at the expiration of
eight years, patent for one hundred and sixty
acres, or receive without delay q patent for forty
acres, relinquishing all claim to the remainder.
SEC 3: That if at any time after the fling of
said affidavit and prior to the issuing of the patent
for said land, the claimant shall abandon the land
or fail to do the breaking and planting required by
this act, or any part thereof shall fail to cultivate
protect, and keep in good condition such timber
then, and in that event, such land shall be subject
TO entry under the homestead laws, or by some
other person under the provisions of this act: Pro
Uided, That the party making claim to said land
either as a homestead settler or under this act
shall give, at the time Of filing his application such
notice to the original claimant as shall be prescribed
by the rules established by the Commissioner of
the General LandOfice, and the rights of the par
ties sh II be determined in other contested cases
SEE, L. That each and every person who, under
the DIVISIONS Of the act entitled An act to
hom( 5teads to actual settlers on the public do
main," approved May twentieth, eighteen hundred
and sixty-two, or any amendment thereto having
homestead on said public domain, who, at any time
after the end of the third year of his or herresi
dence thereon shall, in addition 70 the settlement
and Improvements now required by law, have had
under cultivation, for two years, one acre of tim
Der, the trees thereon not being more than twelve
feet apart each way, and in good thrifty condition
for each and every sixteen acres of said homestead
SHALL upon due proof of such fact by two credible
witnesses receive his or her patent for said home
stead.
SEC. 5. That no land acquired under the provis-
ions OF this act shall in any event become liable to
the satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted
prior 10 the issuing of certificate therefor
SEC 6. That the Commissioner of the General
Land-Ofce is hereby required to prepare and issue
such rnles and regulations, consistent with this act
as shall be necessary and proper to carry its provs
ions into effect; and that the registers and the re-
ceivers of the several land-ofces shall each be en-
titled to receive two dollars at the time of entry,
and the same sum when the claim is finally estab-
lished and the final certificate issued.
SEC l. That the fifth section of the act entitled
IAN act IN addition to an act to punish crimes
against the United States, and for other purposes
approved March third eighteen hundred and fifty-
seven, shall extend to ali oaths, affrmations and
affdavits required or authorized by this act
SEC. s. That parties who have already made en-
tries under the act approved March third, eighteen
hundred and seventy-three, of which this is amend
atory, shall be permitted to complete the same
upon full compliance with the provisions of this act
Approved, March I3, 1874.