The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1874-12-18
GOVERNMENT LANDS.
Land Office Decisions aud Instructions
Important Information to Settlers
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Land Office Decisions aud Instructions
Important Information to Settlers
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OF FINAL PROOF.
The Land Officers at Sioux City publish the
following, showing that final proof is not obliga-
tory until the expiration OF seven years from the
date of settlement
There seems to be a wide spread impression
Gus inquiries received relative to it, that there
has been some change in the Homestead law
making it obligatory for ho,nestcaders to make
final proof at the expiration of five years.
We ask to correct such impression through the
medium Of your paper, by stating that there has
time Of making final proof And that while a
hoa,esteader may make final proof after five
years actual residence Oh his homestead. the law
allows him the privilege of making it at any time
within seven yearSfrOm the date OF his homestead
receipt.
IN CASE OF CLAIMANTS INSANITY
The Commissioner OF the General Land Office
has decided as follows, in case OF the insanity Of
4 homestead claimant
Upon proper evidence Of a homestead claim
ants insanity being presented. his homestead
entry, will not be contested OH the ground Of
abandonment: \ guardian. in such cases should
be appointed by the proper court who will, on
presenting acceptable final proof. secure patent
in the name OF the insane claimant
MARRIAGE AFTER PRE- -EMPTIoS FILING.
The Commissioner has decided and the Secre-
tait OI tIfc Interior has 1Hlfnlt0 decision.
that a woman cannot make entry under the pre-.
emPion laws, if She marrjes after filing, as
follows
A woman being the head of = family having
filed for tract Of public land and subsequently
marrieS is disqualified from entering the same
under the pre-emption laws she not then being
the head OF Il family.
VOLUNTARY REIMBURSEMENT.
A voluntary REIMBURSEMENT by a homesteader
has no more effect than default at an cxanlil,-
| alton.
HOMESTEAD ENTRY COVERS TRACT.
While a tract is covered by a homestead entry,
uncanceled. it is not subject to Their pre- cmptiOn
| filing OF homestead entry.
'EsEHTION BY HUSBAND.
A married woman who has been deserted by
her husband can make homestead entry and
upon full compliance with the requirements of
the homestead law secure patent for the land
return.
MARRIAGE AFTER HOMESTEAD FILING.
A single woman who makes an entry under the
MARRIAGE provided! rcuuireMentSa as to settlement
and cultivation are complied with.
CANNOT COMMUTE IN PART.
The Commissioner writes in a case of partial
communication, as follows
You will please inform him that homestead
all, as whole and that lie will be allowed sixty
days in which to pay for the remainder.
ArF1DAvlTs TO OBTAIN NoMEsTEADs
The following instructions are from the Gener-
al Land Office:
nection with his application, make an affidavit
before the register or receiver that he is over the
aye of twenty one. or the head OF a fainil. that
he is Citizen of the United States, or has de-
clared his intentions to become such, and that
the entry is made for his exclusive use and bene-
| lit and for actual settlement and cultivation.
| Where the applicant has made actual SETTLE
ment on the land he desires to enter but is pre-
vented by bodily inirmi'y, distance, or other
G ece the x S at the s
the clerk of the court for the county within which
| the land is situated.
| DEcIlEtToKY STATEMENTS AND TIMBER FILING.
The Commissioner writes as follows to the
| Grand Island Land Office:
Homestead declarations must in all cases he
! filed by the soldier IN person or by his duly au-
tlorizcd agent and they should be rejected when
rcceivec by mail or in any other manner than the
Local officers are not allowed to enter land un-
der the timber culture act of March ), 1873.
SWAMP LAND.
III letter, dated March 20. 1874. to the Register
and Receiver at New Orleans, La, the commits
! person who makes a homestead entry cannot he
allowed to rcimluish it and make another be-
cause he found the land different from what he
Should it appear upon a proper showing that
snamp land to which a State is entitled has been
embraced in homestead entry said entry will
|
| entry Withthc first payments to his credit
DECISION AS TO MINORS AND GUARDIANS,
Commissioner Burdctt writes as follows in an
sWcr to a question as to minors and guardians:
In reply toyourletcr Of The 18th ,rltino relative
to the rights of minor orphan child of Il deceased
Union soldier under the soldiers and sailors
! homestead act of June g. l>72, have to refer you
to article 2. Of instructions explanatory OF said
1872. herewith enclosed. The guardian is not re-
CURED to reside in person upon the land entered
| by him in behalf OF his ward. but the child must
reside thereon for such period as the case may
| land may be made by tile guardian or some party
! authorized 10y and acting for him.
! SOLDIER PROOF.
| A homestead settler under act of June 8, 1872,
may make proof at such time as his period Of
actual settlement and cultivation not less than
one year, added to his term OF military service
will make five years. After the party has com
plcted the term of five years rs above described,
| required by law to entitlc hin, to patent, pro
| vidpd satisfactory proof be made within seven
| years from date Of entry. -
| INsCFFICIENCY OF CULTIVATION
TIC Commissioner writes to the Land Office at
Grand Island. Nebraska
jecting said application is approved by this Office
rs the erection of 4 sod house and cultivation Of
one quarter Of an acre OF land does not Show that
Of the statute requisite in committing a home.
! stead entry. The papers forwarded are herewith
returned. .f-f;7 8
MINOR WHO RELISQUIsnEs NOT ALLOWED TO
MAKE SECOND ENTRY, $780,
| The Commissioner writes as follows in answer
| to question from Elk Point, Dakota .
Referring to your letter Of the Goth of February.
have TO- state that it is held by this Office that
No. 795 Vermllfon series, while a minor and sub
sequently rclinquiShed the same, thereby eY.
lausted his rights under the homestead act and