The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-08-15
HOMESTEAD AND pRE.EnPT1oN LAND

AND PERCEPTION LAND
The Act of Congress to provide addi-
tional regulations for homestead and
entries of public lands, is
of great importance to pre-emptors,
and we publish below the full text of
the law for the use Of those interested
in public lands:
BE it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States in Congress assembled, That be-
fore final proof shall be submitted by
any person claiming to enter agricul-
tural lands under the law provided for
presumption and homestead entries,
such person shall file with the Register
of the proper land Office notice of his
or her intention to make such proof,
stating therein the description of lands
to be entered and the names of wit
ncsscs by whom the necessary facts
will be established.
Upon the filing Of such notice, the
Register shall publish tho notice, that
such an application has been made,
once week for the period OF thirty
days, in IL newspaper to be by him
designated as published nearest to said
tice in some conspicuous place in his
Office for the same period. Such notice
shall contain the names OF the witnesses
as stated in the application. At the
expiration of said period OF thirty days
the claimant shall be entitled to make
proof in the manner heretofore pro-
vided by law.
The Secretary Of the Interior shall
make all necessary rules for giving
effect to the foregoing provisions.
Approvec March 3, 1879.
In accordance with the above Act, J..
A. Williamson, Commissioner, has is
sued the following letter of instruction
to the Registers and Receivers OF tho
U. s. District Land Offices, in relation
to the proper carrying out OF the pro-
visions of the Act:
DEPARTMENT OF TIE INTERIOR,
Washington D. c., April Is, 1879.
Gentlemen-YOur attention is called
to the provisions of the Act of Con-
gress entitled .sAn Act to provide addi-
tional regulations for homestead and
pre-emptiou entries of public lands"
approved March 5, 1879, copy herewith.
Hereafter no person claiming to en-
ter lands under the homestead and pre-
emption 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 give the names and
residences of the witness by whom the
necessary facts as to settlement, resi-
dence, cultivation, ETC., are established.
The filing of such notice must he ac-
companied by a deposit Of sufficient
money to pay tho cost of publishing
tho notice to be given by the Register.
Upon filing Of the notice by the APP
plicant, the Register shall publish a
notice Of such application once each
week for q period of thirty days in a
newspaper which he shall designate,
by an order written on said application,
as published nearest the land described
in tho 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 re-
quire the notice to be published weekly
five times, because four weekly publ
cations would not cover period Of so
days.
The notice to be given by the Reg
lister, must state that application to
make final proof has been filed, the
name of the applicant, the kind of en-
try, whether homestead or pre-emption,
description of the land, and the names
and residences of the witnesses as
stated in the application. TO save ex-
pensc, the Register may embrace two
or more cases in one application, when
it can be done consistently with the
requirements of publication.
When proof is filed that notice has
been given In the manner and for the
time required by said Act of Congrcss,
the applicant will be entitled to make
final proof as provided by the laws i'll
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 ap-
plication IA copy of which should be
annexed to the certificate) was posted
by him in a conspicuous place in his
Office for period OF 80 days; and the
affidavit OF the publisher, foreman OF
the newspaper, that the notice "a copy
of which notice must be annexed to
the affidavit) was published in said