The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-06-18
GOVERNMENT LANDS.
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
date Of settlement
There seems to be a, wide spread impression
among homesteaders, JUDGING from the numer-
has been some change in the Homestead law
making it obligatory for homesteaders to make
We ask to correct such impression through the
medium Of your paper, by stating that there has
been no change 2, the lazy in reference to the
homesteader may make final proof after five
years actual residence on his homestead the law
allows him the privilege of making it at any time
receipt.
IN CASE OF CLAIMANTS INSANITY.
The Commissioner of the General Land Office
has decided as follows, in case of the insanity of
homestead claimant
Upon proper evidence of u homestead claim.
ants insanity being presented, his homestead
entry will not be contested on the ground Of
abandonment guardian in such cases should
presenting acceptable final proof, secure patent
i'll the nanle OF the insane claimant.
+ MARRIAGE AFTER PRE-EMPT1ON FILING
! The Commissioner has decided and the Secre-
tary OF the Interior has affirmed the decision,
that 2 woman cannot make entry under the pre-
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A woman being the head of a family having
fled for tract of public land and subsequently
ma, rieS is disqualified from entering the same
| under the presumption laws she not then being
the head OF a family.
VOLUNTARY REIMBURSEMENT.
A voluntary REIMBURSEMENT by homesteader
has no more effect than Il default at all examin-
| alton.
HOMESTEAD ENTRY COVERS TRACT.
Whi3a q frap &c INV q onfr
uncanceled, it is not subject to ther pre- emption
filing or homestead entry.
pEsERTIoS BY HUSBAND.
A married woman who has been deserted bv
her husband can make a. homestead entry and
upon 4 full compliance with the requirements Of
the homestead law secure 4 patent for the land
! in her own name notwithstanding her husband S
| return.
MARRIAGE AFTER HOMESTEAD FILING.
A single woman who makes an entry under the
homestead laws does not forfeit her rights by
marriage, provided requirements rs 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 a homestead
! all, as 4 whole; and that he will be allowed sixty
days in which to pay for the remainder.
AFF1DAvITs TO OBTAIN nOMEsTEADs.
The following instructions are from the Gcner-
al Lana OfllCe
TO obtain holnestcads, the party must in con.
nectiOn with his application, make all affidavit
before the register or receiver that he is over the
Of tWen 1eyr ;e or ts hS9 Of fms that
clared his intentions to become such, and that
the entry is made for his exclusive use and bene-
Where the applicant has made actual settle
ment on the land he desires to enter but is pre-
vented by bodily infrmity, distance, Or other
good cause from personal attendance at the dis
tlict land office, tile affidavit may be made before
the clerk Of the court for the county within which
the land is situated
DEcLAKAToRY 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-
tllorized agent, and they should be rejected when
aSa1e ~ mail or in any other manner than the
Local oflicers:are not allowed to enter land un-
der the timber culture act of March 8, 1873.
! . DECISION As TO MINORS AND GUARDIANS,
+ Commissioner Burdett writes assfollows in an
sWert0 2 question as to minors and guardians:
In reply to your letter Of the 18th u relative
to the rights Of a ninororplan Child ora deceased
Union soldier under tie SOLDIERS amd sailors
act June IT. haze t9yefsr
act as found on page Y of circular Of August 81,
1872, herewith enclosed, The guardian is not re-:
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reside thereon for such period rs the case may
REQUIRE. improvements and cultivation OF the
Land may be made by the guardian or some party
I3~.*s:f rI. SOLDIER PROOF. e..
| A homestead settlerunder 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
the further residence upon hts homestead is not
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