The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-07-23
GOVERNMENT LANDS.

GOVERNMENT LANDS.
Land Office Decisions and Instructions
important Information to Settlers
C1tp this oct and Preserve it.
OF FINAL PROOF.
Ihe Land Officers at Sioux City publish the
1OnoWtnE' showing that final proof Is not 0biga-
cy o f me expiration OF seven years from the
There seems to be wide spread impression
the
has been some change in the Homestead law
making it obligatory for homesteaders to make
NV to Of yS the
medium Of your paper, by stating that there has
keen Keen no ehSnge Of the law in reference to the
| hoMeSteader may make final proof after five
years actual residence OH 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
Upon proper evidence of a homestead claim
ants insanity being presented. his homestead
entry. will not be contested on the ground of
abandonment; guardian in such cases should
he appointed by the proper court who will, on
presenting acceptable final proof, secure patent
In the name of the insane claimant.
MARRIAGE AFTER REDEMPTION FILING.
The Commissioner has decided and the Secre-
tary OF the Interior has affirmed the decision,
that q woman cannot make entry under the pre-
! follows
A woman being the head Of family having
filed 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 family.
| VOLUNTARY REIMBURSEMENT.
voluntary REIMBURSEMENT by homesteader
has no more effect than default ut an examn.
alton.
HOMESTEAD ENTRY COVERS TRACT.
While 4 tract is covered by a homestead entry,
uncanceled, it is not bcct to ther pre- emption
filing or homestead entry.
DISCRETION BY HUSBAND.
A married woman who has been deserted bv
her husband can make homestead entry and
upon a full compliance with the requirements of
the homestead law secure a patent for the land
in her own name Notwithstanding her husband
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 as to settlement
and cultivation are complied with.
CANNOT COMMUTE IN PART.
/ The Commissioner writes, in a case Of partial
You viii please inform him that a homestead
cannot he committed in part, but must be. II at
|
days in which to pay for the remainder.
AFFIDAvIrs TO OBTAIN uoMEsrEADs.
The following instructions are from the Gener
nectlon with his application. make an afidavi,
before the register or receiver that he is over the
aye OF twenty: one: or the head OF a family 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
hit. and for actual settlement and cultivation.
| Where nj hHc do coff 10
naent on tile land he desires to enter but is pre-
vented by bodily infirmity, distance, or other
g9od cause; from personal attendance at the dis
tue clerk OF the court for the county within which
the land is situated.
DEcIARATOKY STATEMENTS AND TIMBER FILING
The Commissioner writes as follows to the
Grand Island Land Office:
Homestead declarations must in all cases be
filed by the soldier in person or by his duly au
thorlzed agent, and they should be rejected when
recelvec ny mail or Ill any other manner than the
Local officers arc not allowed to enter land un
der the timber culture act of March 3, 1873.
DECISION AS TO MINORS AND GUARDIANS,
Commissioner Bur,lett writes as follows in an
swer to question as to minors and guardians:
In reply tOyOur letter of the 18th ultimO relative
to the rights OF minor orphan child of deceased
Union soldier under the soldiers and sailors
homestead act Of June 8, LIZ, have to refer ycr
act as found on page y of circular Of August 80
1872, herewith enclosed. The guardian is not re-
by lin in behalf Of his ward, but the Child must
reside thereon for such period as the case ma,
REQUIRE: 1mProyements and cultivation Of the
authorized by and acting for him.
SOLDIER PROOF.
A homestead settler under act of June 8, 1872
may make proof at such time as his period O
actual settlement and cultivate not less thar
one year, added to his term of military service
will make five years. After the party has com
pleted the term OF five years, as above described
the further residence upon his homestead is moi
vided satisfactory proof he made within seven
wears ON date Of entry.
1xsUFFrc1ENcY OF CULTIVATION.
i; TIE Commissioner writes to the Land Office n
y Grand Island, Nebraska:
: In reply have to state that yonr action IN re
jecting said application is approved by this offic,
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
0f the statute requisite in committing 4 home
stead entry. The papers forwarded arc herewith
returned
MINOR WHO RELATIONSHIPS NOT ALLOWED r
MAKE SECOND ENTRY,
The eueso from Kt 1 is oSWs in
Referring to your letter Of the 18th of February
have to state that it is held by this office tina
Thongs nns Thompson who MAIDS homestead entr
+ seQuently relinquished the same, thereby ex
hauStcd his rights under the homestead act an,
= cannot therefore be allowed to make sec0n'
. entry.
SWAMP LAND.
IN letter, dated March 20, 1871, to the Rcgiste
- and Receiver at New Orleans, La, the commits
Si0ner of the General Land Office decided that
person who makes a homestead entry cannot b
, allowed to rciinquish it and make another be
cause he found the land different from what IL
:, Should it appear upon proper showing tina
y smamp land to which State is entitled has beef
& embraced In 4 homestead entry said entry viii
- ne cancelled and the party may make anOthe
entry with the first payments to his credit
. TIMBER ENTREES
= The Commissioner of the Land Office decide
that single woman, duly qualified, who la
made an entry under the timber culture act, All,
subsequently marrics. is not thereby debarre!
l. from acquiring title to land. Land through
70 which passes stream OF water Is subject to ell
try under the timber culture act The rules gov
ernng homestead contests, govern timber cul
ture contests. Persons who have made ttmbe
culture entries cannot commute by paying tn
d government price per acre for the land. Ful
= he shown before the title can pass to the claim
ant.
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