Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1878-09-05
Republican Ticket.
For Delegate to Congress,
v;.a &. P. BENNETT. ...
For District Attorney Northern District Of Dakota
o. w. FRANCIS.
Republican Ticket.
New Regulations In regard to "PrOv.
ing Up' ON HOmesteads.

Duluth Tribune and Herald.
1t is of course we'll known to all who
have been familiar with the instruction
and the rulings Of the General Land Of
flee, that multitudes of persons who have
ever taken homesteais, especially of those
who have taken them in this portion of
the state, have not strictly complied with
the law IN regard to establishing "a resi-
dence" thereon. Heretofore homestcaders
have, of course solemnly sworn that they
have resided on their homesteads as pro-
vided by law, but, as matter of fact,
such residences have been technical,
rather than bona tide. It seems, no wever,
that the Commissioner Of the General
Land Office has decided to put a stop to
this loose way Of doing business, as new
blanks have been issued TO the various
offices, prescribing new sort of emphatic
and specific questions both for the home
steader himself and for his witnesses.
For the information of the public, and
especially for the information of home
stesders who have not yet ''proved up"
we publish below the questions which,
under the new regulations, the homc~
steaders must answer, and the questions
for his witnesses are equally searching
and pointed:
QUESTIONS FOR THE HOAEsTEADER.
Ques 1. What is your name! (Be
careful to give it in full, correctly spelled,
in order that it may be here written
exactly as you wish it written in the
patent which you desire to obtain.)
Ques. 2. What is your age! .,q
Ques. 8. Are you the head Of a family,
or single person; and, if the head Of
family, of whom does your family consist:
Ques. 4. Are you native born citizen
of the United States? If not have you
declared your intention to become citiz
en-, and have you obtained certificate of
naturalization? ..... ..... ~
Ques. S. Are there eny indication of
coal, salines, or minerals of any kind on
the lands embraced in your homestead
entry above described? Qf so, state what
they are, and whether the springs or
mineral deposits are valuable.
Ques.6 Is the land more valuable for
agricultural than mineral purposes?
Ques. Z. What is your post Office
address? ... $780,.
Cues. 8. Have you ever made home
stead entry except for this land, No.
.....,..? Gf you have, give, as nearly
as you can, the date thereof and dcscrip.
tion OF the land, and state whether the
entry still subsists, or, if it has been can
celed, state the cause of it's cancel lation y
Ques. 8. Have you sold the land or
conveyed to any one your right and inter.
est in the same? And, if so, to whom
and for what purpose: ..--...
Ques. 10, Does any one except your
self claim the land under the homestead
or pre.emption laws:
CUES. IL. When ala you first make
settlement on the slid land?
Ques, 10 When did you first establish
residence upon the land?
Ques. 13. At the date you have given
as being the date that you first establish.
ed your residence upon the land, did you
move thereon in person?
Cues. IA. Up to what time have you
resided on the lands?
Cues. Is. Was your residence upon
the land continuous during the period
named?
Ques. IS. If you had family during
said period Of residence on the home.
stead, did your family reside thcreouy