The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-06-26
LAND LAWS.
New REQ nj rement as to living Notice
OfInteM ti"n to Prove up Home.
stead AM Presumption
Claims.

The following instructions have been
received at the Land Office in this city
in relation to proving up on home
steads and presumption claims, the law
of which we published some weeks ago:
Registers and Receivers y. S. District
land Offices:
GEN1LEMEN:-Your attention is
called to the provisions of the act Of
Congress entitled can act to provide
additional regulations for homestead
and presumption entries of public
lands, approved March 3, 1872" copy
herewith:
Hereafter no person claiming to
enter public land under the homestead
and presumption 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 no
tice 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 necessary facts
as to settlement, residence, cultivation,
ETC., are to be established.
The filing of such notice must be &C.
companied by a 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 shall publish
notice of such application once each
week for 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 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 published weekly five
times, because four weekly publica-
tons would not cover a period of 30
days
The notice to be given by the Regis
ter must state that application to make
final proof has been filed; the name of
the applicant, the kind of entry,
whether homestead or presumption; "a
description of the land, and the names
and residences of the witnesses as
stated in the application.
To save expense the Register may
embrace two or more cases in one pub
LEGATION when it can he done consist
emily with the legal requirements of
publication, in newspaper published
nearest the land, as per attached form
No. 3.
When proof is fled 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 applica-
ton IA copy of which should be an
nexed to the certificate) was posted by
him in conspicuous place in his Of
flee for a period of thirty days; and the
affidavit of the publisher or foreman
of the newspaper that the notice ia
copy of which notice must be annexed
to the affidavit,) was published in said
newspaper once each week for five sue
cessive weeks.
The proof of the publication and
posting of the notice must be filed and
preserved by the Register, to be for
warded to this Office with the f.
nal papers when issued.