The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-01-08


tor such quarter. section or legal sub.
division Of eighty or forty acres Of
lanl.
Sec 3. That if at any time after
the filing Of said aflil.vit, aud prior to
the issuing Of the patent for said Ian l.,
it shall tc proved, after due notice to
the party making such entry and
claiming to cultivate such timber, to
the satisfaction Of the register and the
receiver of the land.office that such
person has abandoned the land, or fall
ed to do the breaking and planting re.
quired by this act. or any part thereof,
as hereinbefore prescribed, or failed to
cultivate, protect, and keep in good
condition such timber, then, and in
that event, the entry shall be Cancelled =,
and said land shall revert to the Unit
ed States and become subject to dis
posal as other public lands.
SEC. 4 That each and every per-
son who, under the provisions Of the
act entitled IAN act to secure home
steads to actual settlers on the public
domaiu," approved May twentieth,
eighteen hundred and sixty-two, or
any amendment thereto, having a
homestead on said public domain, who
! at any time after the end of the third
year of his or her residence thereon
shall, in addition to the settlement and
improvements now required by law,
have had under cultivation, for two
years, one acre of timber, the trees
thereon not being more than twelve
feet apart each way, and in a 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
paten, for SAID Homestead,
SEC. 5. That no laud acquired
under ,he provisions Of this act shall
in any event become liable to the sat
isiaction OF any debt or debts contract
ed prior to the issuing Of certificate
therefor.
SEC 6. That the Commissioner
of the General Land Office is hereby
required to prepare aud issue such
rules apd regulations, consistent with
this act, as shall be necessary and prop
er to carry its provisions into effect;
and tha. the registers and the receivers
of the several land Offices shall each be
entitled to receive two dollars at the
time of entry, aud the same sum when
the claim Is finally established and the
| final cer,itcHe issued
SEC. I. That the fifth section of
the act entitled An act in addition to
an ac, to punish crimes against the
United States, and for other purposes,
approved March third, eighteen hun
drci and tity-seven, shall extend to
all oaths, affi rmations. and afidavits
required or authorized by this act.
SEC. s. That parties who have
already made entries under the act ap-
proved March third, eighteen hundred
and seyenty.three, shall be permitted
to complete the same upon full com mpli
ance with the provisions of this act.
The board OF trustees have let the
contract for putting up the new build
ing for the lind institute. above the
basement, tor 81 900 to Waite l. King
sley, of Faribau!t. The basement is
being pu: in by VIM O'Neil and is
nearly completed. The new building
is to Join the old Faribault residence
on the south. Its walls are to be OF
brick, and its size on the ground forty
by sixty feet and two full stories aud
mausard story in heighth above the
basement, making in all four story
building. A piazza is to be extended
around the building and when COM
plete it will be very handsome and
convenient. The inside fiuish is to be
of native woods, oiled and vanished.
The whole cost of the building will be
about $4,000, and it is to be ready for
occupancy by the lst Of July, 1874
Faribault Democrat
Whero arc all tho gentry who took
such special pleasure in advertising
Minnesota weather year ago! why
don It they advertise the weather We
are having this winter? IF the glorious
winter weather which Minnesota is
having now, was only halt as we'll
advertised all over the country as was
the one bad storm which We had last
winter, the State would not afford
room for the INN. igration which would
& .ck to it in the one season Of 1874
Detroit Record
Two children of Mr.. VIM Bickford,
of l asca, died this week Of fatal
throat distcmper, said to be far more
malignant than either Group or dipthe-
ria. About three weeks ago they lost
another child By the same disease, ard
now another is taken down with it.
H. Bickford, who sat up with aud
took care Of the deceased children a
night or two, is also sick with the dis.
ease. The public school has been
closed to prevent its spread;ng.-Free
born County Standard.
A Norwegian farmer came % town
on Wednesday last, and sold five hun.
dred bushels Of wheat, receiving checks
for the same. He became partly intox,-
Gated and lost them, probably beyond
recovery. He intended to apply the
money to the clearing off a mortgage
upon his farm, which will thus, prob
ably, be sacrificed as the price Of a
few glasses of blue rnin.-Faribault
Republican.
Judge s. J. r. Mcmillan, of the
Supreme Court, was at Washington on