The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-07-02
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GOVERNMENT 4 LANDS:
!: Land Office Decisions and Instructions
- - --I'nportant M orn.ation to Settlers
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among homesteaders, judging from the numer-
has been some change in the Homestead law
making It obligatory Ter home steaders to make
fip ,2 proof at the expiration Of AYE years:
medium of yonr paper, BY stating that there has
time Of making final proof And that willie
Years. actual residence on Ills homestead, the law
Mit%S him the PIyege 81 st
J IN CASE OF o1A1MAsr1 tsAx1rY. ;.,.<
: The Commissioner Of the: GeSeral Land Office
has decided as follows in case Of the insanity of
homestead claimant: 4 ~:
ants Insanity being presented his homestead
entry viii not be contested otl the ground of
abandonment A. guardian In such cases should
S eiSRf fo! " pate%
in the name of the insane claimant: r 49,
8 MARRIAGE AFTER PRE- EMFr1ON FILING. +
Tile Commissioner has decided and the Secre- |
tary of the, Interior has affirmed the decision,
eMption laws, il she marris after filing, as
'o1ic Woman nan being the head family having
@ les Is disauaed from .atering tie same
the head Of family. t:*
IL 49, VOLUNTARY REIMBURSEMENT. L. :s,;:
A voluntary REIMBURSEMENT BY. a homesteader1
alton. ,,;..
| HOMESTEAD ENTRY COVERS TRACT
While a tract is covered by homestead entry,
,ncanceled it is not subject to ther pre. emption
filing or homestead entry. 2!~
;.+;.s DEsERT1oN BY HusBAEp..%.
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 2 patent for the land
III her own name notwithstanding her husbands
return. '!' 'i' !" =
MARRIAGE AFTER HOMESTEAD FILING.
| single woman who makes an entry under the
homestead laws does not forfeit her rights by
marriage, provided requirements as to settlement
and cultivation are complied with
| CANNOT COMMUTE IN PART.
The Commissioner writes, in a case of partial
You will please inform him that a homestead
cannot be committed in part, but must be. if at
all, as whole ; and that he will be allowed sixty
days in which to pay for the remainder.
| AFFIDAvITs TO OBTAIN noMEsrEADs.
The, following instructions are from the Gener-
al Land Office !: 49,
To obtain homesteads, the party must, in con,
nection with his application, make an affidavit
before the register receiver that lie IS over the
age Of tWentyo one, or thc head Of a family that
he is Citizen Of the United states, Or has de;
de for
fit. and for actual settlement and cultivation.
Where the applicant has made actual settle
vented by bodily inlirnity, distance, or other
good cause. from personal attendance at the dis
trict land office, the affidavit may be made before
theland is situated. -,
DEc1.AkATORY STATEMENTS AND TIMBER FILING.
t. The Commissioner writes as follows to the
Grand Island Land Office:
Homestead declarations must in all cases be
filed by the soldier in person OF by his duly all
thor lied agent, and they should be rejected when
receiyec by mail or in any other manner than the
Local officers are not allowed to enter land un
der tile timber culture act of March, 3, 1878.
DECISION AS TO MINORS AND GUARDIANS,
Commissioner Burdctt writes as follows in an
swer to aQuestfon as to minors and guardians:
lnreply tOy0ur letter Of the 18th ullimo relative
Union soldier under the soldiers and sailors
homestead act of June s, ls72 l have to refer yol
to article 2, of instructions explanatory Of said
Ils72 herewith enclosed. The guardian IS not re
CURED to reside in person upon the land entered
e Rsna for Of sac i ps6 a tie ' ese
require. Improvements and cultivation of the
land may be made by the guardian or some party
authorized by and acting for him. = '.' 49,
SOLDIER PROOF.
A homestead settler under act Of June 8, 1872
may make proof at such time. as Ills period o.
actual settlement and cultivation, not less thar
one year, added to his term Of military service
pleted tie term Of i've years, as above described
the further residence upon his homestead is no
required by law to entitle him to patent, pro
vided satisfactory proof be made within seven
wears ON date of entry.
,1NsUFF1c1ENcY OF CULTIVATION
TIE Commissioner writes TO the Land Office n
Grand Island, Nebraska
In reply have to state thatyour action in re
as the erection of a sod house and cultivation O
one quarter of an acre Of land does not show tina
good faith In complying with the requirements
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stead entry. The papers forwarded are herewith
returned i
MINOR WHO RELATIONSHIPS NOT ALLOWED II
| 20 re- MAKE SECOND ENTRY,
The Commissioner writes as follows lin answe
to- . question from Elk Point, Dakota
have to State that it is held by this office tia
Thomas Thompson who made homestead entr!
No. 79s Xernillion series, while minor and sub
hausted his rights under the homestead act AM
cannot therefore be allowed to make secont
l entry.
IN 4 letter. dated March 20, 1874, to the Registe
and Keceiyer at New Orleans La, the commits
person who makes homestead entry cannot b
allowed to re'inquish it and make another be
cause he found the land different from what HI
smamp land to which a State is entitled has beer
embraced IN homestead entry SAID entry VIII
be cancelled and the party may make an0the
entry with the first payments to his credit
4 -" TIMBER ENTRIES.
The Commissioner Of the Land ONCE decide
4 that Ia single woman, duly qualified, who ha
made an entry under the timber culture act, All,
subsequently marries, Is not thereby, 'debarre!
which passes i stream OF water is subject to Ell
try under the timber culture act. The rules gov
erning homestead contests, govern timber cul
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culture entries cannot commute by paying TIL
I government price per acre for the land. Ful
" compliance With the law for the full time mus
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