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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
General Land Office, Washing I
ton. d. c., April Is, 1879.
Registers and Receivers,

General Land Office, Washing (
ton, D. c., April Is, 1879. }
Registers and Receivers,
o. 8. District Land Offices
GENTLEMEN:
Your attention is called to the pro.
visions of the act of Congress en-
titled can act to provide additional
regulations for homestead and preemp-
tion entries of public lands" ap-
proved March 3, 1879, copy herewith.
Hereafter no person claiming to
enter public land under the home.
stead and preemption laws will be
permitted to make final proof until
notice has been given as required by
said act.
Any settler desiring to make final
proof must first file with the register
of the proper land office written
notice of his intention to make final
proof. Such notice must describe
the land claimed, and the claimant
must give the names and residences
of the witnesses by whom the neces.
sary facts as to settlement, residence,
cultivation, ETC., are to be established.
The filing Of such notice must be
accompanied by deposit of sufficient
money to pay the cost of publishing
the notice to be given by the register.
Upon the filing of the notice by
the applicant, the register skall pub.
lish notice of such application once
each week for a period Of thirty days.
in a newspaper which he shall desig-
nate, by an order written on said
application, as published nearest the
land described in the application, and
he shall also post said notice in some
conspicuous place in his Office for the
same period. A compliance with the
law will require the notice to be pub.
lished weekly five times, because four
weekly publications would not cover
a period of thirty days.
The notice to be given by the re.
gister must state that application to
make final proof has been filed; the
name of the applicant; the kind of
entry, whether homestead or presmp-
tion; a description of the land, and
the names and residences of the wit.
nesses as stated in the application.
To save expense, the register may
embrace two or more cases in one
application, when it can be done con-
sistently with the legal requirements
of publication, in a newspaper pub.
lished nearest the land, as per at.
tached Form No. 3.
When proof is filed that notice has
been given in the manner and for the
time required by said act of Congress,
the applicant will be entitled to make
final proof as provided by the laws in
force at the date of the approval of
said act.
The proof that requisite notice has
been given will be the certificate Of
the register that the notice of the
application IA copy of which should
be annexed to the certi6cate) was
posted by him in conspicuous place
in his Office for period of thirty
days; and the affidavit of the pub.
Usher or foreman of the newspaper
that the notice IA copy of which no.
tice must be annexed to the afidavit)
was published in. said newspaper once
each week for Eve successive weeks.
The proof Of the publication and
posting Of the notice must be filed
and preserved by the register, 10 be
forwarded to this Office with the final
papers when issued.
The notices, afidavits, certificates,
ETC., required under said act should,
in form, be substantially like the
forms hereto appended.
Very respectfully. -..-.---a -
il. - J. A. WILLIAMSON,
~" - - Commissioner.