The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-05-28
GOVERNMENT LANDS.
Land Office Decisions and Instructions
Important Information to Settlers
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Land Office Decisions and 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 homesteadcrS, Judging from the numer-
making it obligatory for honiesteaders to make
final proof at the expiration OF five years.
medium Of your paper, by stating that there has
time Of making final proof And that, while a
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 homestead claim:
entry win not be contested on the ground Of
abandonment: A guardian IN such cases should
by the cont who WILL
in the name Of the insane claimant.
MARRIAGE AFTER PREVENTION FILING.
The Commissioner has decided and the Secre-
tary of tile Interior has affirmed the decision,
that a woman cannot make entry under the pre-
emption laws, If she marries after filing, as
follows
woman being the head of 4 family having
filed for tract Of public land and subsequently
ma, rieS is disqualified from entering the same
under the pre- emptiOn laws she not then being
the head 81 a family.
VOLUNTARY REIMBURSEMENT.
A voluntary REIMBURSEMENT by homesteader
has no more effect than 4 default at an examin-
alton.
HOMESTEAD ENTRY COVERS TRACT.
While a tract is covered by a homestead entry,
uncanceled, it is not Inject to ter pre- emption
filing or homestead entry.
DEsERTION By HUSBAND.
A married woman who has been deserted bv
her husband can make homestead entry and
upon full compliance with the requirements Of
the homestead law secure 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 as to settlement
and cultivation are complied with.
CANNOT COMMUTE IN PART.
The Commissioner writes, in a case of partial
communication, as follows
You viii please inform him that homestead II
all, as a whole and that he will be allowed sixty
days in which to pay for the remainder.
AFFIDAv1Ts TO OBTAIN noMEsrEADs.
The following instructions are from the Gener-
al Land ONCE
nection with his application, make an affidavit
before the register or receiver that he is over the
aye OF twenty one, or the head OF family !; that
ne 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-
fit. and for actual settlement and cultivation.
Where the applicant has made actual SETTLE
ment on the land he desires to enter but is pre-
vented by bodily in1rmity, distance, or other
g9od cause from personal attendance at the as
the clerk of the court for the county within which
| the land is situated.
DEcI4AEATORY STATEMENTS AND TIMBER FILING.
r, The Comnssioncr 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-
| thOriZed agent, and they should be rejected when
receivec by mail or in any other manner than the
Local officers arc not allowed to enter land un-
der the timber culture act OF March 3, 1878. .s
DECISION AS TO MINORS AND GUARDIANS,
Commissioner Burdett writes rs follows in an
swer to a question as to minors and guardians:
to the fights Of minor orphan child of deceased
Union soldier under the soldiers and sailors
homestead act of June 8, LIZ, have to refer you
actas found Oh page q of circular of August 50,
1872 herewith enclosed. The guardian is not re-
CURED to reside in person upon the land entered
by him in behalf of his ward, but the child must
reside thereon for such period as the case may
require. Improvements and cultivation Of the
land may he made by the guardian or some party
authorized by and acting for him.
H. SOLDIER PROOF.
Ahomestaad settler under act of June s, 1872,
may make proof at such time as his period OF
actual settlement and c 1i, not less than
viii make five years: After the party has com
the further residence upon his homestead Is not
required by law to entitle him to patent, pro-
vided satisfactory proof be made within seven
wears ON date Of entry.
INsUFFICIENCY OF CULTIVATION.
TIE Commissioner writes to the Land Office at
Grand Island, Nebraska
Imreply have-tO state that your action In re-
jectng said application is approved by this Office
as tile erection of sod house and cultivation OF
one quarter Of an acre OF land does not show that
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stead entry. The papers forwarded are herewith
returned I.33|st$s@< T. 55s So # <s&#*.: