The Russellville Democrat., 1879-06-19
THE PUBLIC LANDS.

New Regulations for Making Pre-emptiOns and Locating HOmesteads.
 Following is copy of circular letter sent out from the department of the interior in regard to a new law concerning exemptions:
 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERroR,)
 GENERAL LAND OFFICE,
 WAsnINaTos D. C., Apill5 lS79,) Registers and Receivers, United States District Land Offices;
 GENTLEMEN: Your attention is called to the provisions of the act of congress entitled "an act to provide additional regulations for homestead and pre-emption entries of public lands," approved March 3. 1879, copy herewith.
 Hereafter no person claiming to enter public land under the home. stead and pre-emption laws will be permitted to make final proof until notice has been gwen as required by said act.
 Any settler desiring to make final proof must first file with the regis ter of the proper land office & writ ten notice of his intention to make final proof. Such notice must des- cribc the land claimed, and the claimant must give the names and residences of the witnesses by whom the necessary facts as to settlement residence, cultivation, etc, are to be established. (See form No. l.
 The fling of such notice must be accompanied by a deposit ol sufficient money to pay the cost ol publishing the notice to be given by the register.
 Upon the fling of the notice by the applicant, the register shall publish q notice of such application once a week for the period of thirty days, in a newspaper which he shall designate, by an order written on said application, as published near. est the land described in the ap- plication; and he shall also post said notice in some conspicuous place in his office for the same period A compliance with the law will re quire the notice to be published weekly five times, because four week ly publications would not cover I period of thirty days.
 The notice to be given by the reg ister must state that application tt make final proof has been filed; tho name of the applicant, the klnd O entry, whether homestead or pre- emption; a description of the land and the names and residences of tht witnesses. as stated in tEe applica tion. (See form No. 2.)
 To save expenses the register may embrace. two or more cases Tn on' publication, when it can be don' consistently with the legal require ments of publication, Tn Q newspa per published nearest the land, a per attached form No. 3.
 When proof is filed that notic' has been given in the manner an' for the time required by said ac of congress, the applicant will be en titled to make final proof as provid ed by the laws in force at the dat of the approval of said act.
 The proof that requisite notic has been given will be the certiffcat of the register that the notice of tn application { a copy of which shoul' be annexed to the certificate) wa posted by him in conspicuous plac in his office for period of thirt days; and the affidavit of the pub fisher or foreman of the newspape that the notice (a copy of whicl notice must be annexed to tn afiidavit) was published in sai newspaper once each week for fiv successive weeks.
 | The proof of the publication an posting of the notice must be file and preserved by the register, to b forwarded to thls office with tn final papers when issued, Il The notices. afiidavits, certificate: etc, required under said act should in form, be substantially like tn forms hereto appended.
 Very respectfully,
 J. A. WILLIAMSON,
 CommissioLel