The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-04-09
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-
tory until the expiration OF seven years from the
There seems to be a wide spread impression
among honlesteaders, judging from the numer-
Gus inquiries received relative to it, that there
making it obligatory for h0meStcadcrs 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
sta resence @ rtse The aW
allows him the privilege of making it ut amy time
receipt
IN CASE OF CLAIMANTS INSANITY.
The Commissioner of the General Land Office
has decided us follows, in case Of the Insanity of
q homestead claimant
Upon proper evidence Of a homestead claim:
entry will not be contested on the ground Of
2bandonment guardian in such Gases should
ey @ PROOF ro' secure u patemt
in the name of the insane claimant.
MARRIAGE AFTER PRE- Esrr1oS FILING.
The Commissioner has DECIDED and the Secre-
tary Of the Interior has affirmed the decision,
that 4 woman cannot make entry under the pre-
cmption laws, il She marries after filing, as
! follows
A woman being tho head of 4 family having
fled for i tract Of public land aud subsequently
| ma. ries is disqualified from entering the same
under the pre- cmption laws she not then being
! the head Of Il family.
VOLUNTARY REIMBURSEMENT.
a voluntary REIMBURSEMENT by a homcstealer
has no more effect than default at an exan'n-
| alton.
! HOMESTEAD ENTRY COVERS TRACT.
| While a tract is covered by homestead entry,
uncanceled, it is not subject to ther pre- cmptOn
| filing or homestead entry.
| DEsERT1ON BY HUSBAND.
Amarrie1 woman who has been deserted by
| her husband can make a~hoMestead entry and
upon q full compliance with the requirements of
| tie homestead law secure patent for the land
in her own name notwithstanding her husbands
return
MARRIAGE AFTER HOMESTEAD FILING.
| A single woman who makes an entry under the
homestead laws does not forfeit her rights by
marriage, provided recurrence as to settlement
and cultivation are complied with.
| CANNOT COMMUTE IN PART.
The Commissioner writes, i'll 4 case of partial
You will please inform him that q homestead
all, as a whole and that he will be allowed sixty
days in which to pay Tor the remainder.
AFF1DAv1Ts 70 OBTAIN uOMEsTEADs.
The following instructions arc from the Gener-
| al Land Office
TO obtain homcsteads, TIE party must in con.
nccion J., WITH MS appcati?n, make an afayt
age of twenty-one. or the head Of a family that
he is . Citizen o. the United States, or has de-:
the entry is made for his exclusive use and bene-
fit, and for actual settlement and cultivation.
Where the applicant has made actual settle
vented by bodily intirmity, distance, or other
good cause, from personal attendance at tile dis
trict land office, the affidavit may be mad before
the land is situated.
DEcLARAToRy STATEMENTS AND TIMBER FILING.
The Commissioner writes as follows to the
Grand Island Land Office:
filed by the soldier in person or by his duly au-
tiOriZed agent and they should be rejected when
receivec 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 g. 1873
DECISION AS TO MINORS AND GUARDIANS,
Commissioner Burdett writes as follows in an
swer to q question as to minors and guardians:
In reply to your letter Of the 18th ultmo relative
to the rights ofaminor orphan child ola deceased
Union soldier under the soldiers and sailors
homestead act of June 1:12, have to refer you
to article g. Of INSTRUCTIONS explanatory OF said
1872, herewith enclosed The guardian is not re:
CURED to reside in person upon the land entered
Oy MN III DCdlI Oh HIS NdIu Dltt t!!c Clliu lSt
reside thereon for such period as the case may
require. Improvements and cultivation OF the
land may be made by the guardian OF some party
authorized by and acting for him.
i SOLDIER PROOF.
A homestead settler under act of June 8, 1872
may make proof at such time as his period Ol
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.
Pleted tho term of five years, as above described
the further residence upon his homestead Is not
required by law to cn1itle him to patent, pro-
. vided satisfactory proof be made within sever,
} wears ON date Of entry
i 49,. 1NsUFE1C1ENCr OF, CULTIVATION.
!; Ii c Commissioner writes to the Land Office al
Grand Island, Nebraska = >Iz3 80
In reply have to state that your action In re.
jectng said application is approved by this office
as the erection of II sod house aud cultivation oil
one quarter of an acre OF land does not show tina,
good faith in complying with the requirements
Of the statute requisite in committing a home
stead entry: The papers forwarded are herewith
! returned. X .i.