The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-05-29
New Requirements rs to Giving Notice Of
Intention to Prove up Homestead
And Presumption Claims.
Dept OF THE INTERIOR,
General Land Office,

Wasnington,D.C. u, April Id, ~.
Registers and Receivers, U. S Land Offices.
GENTLEMEN: Your attention is called
to the provisions of the act OF Congress
entitled Gan Act to provide additional
regulations tor homestead aud preem
ton entries of public lands, approved
March 3, 1879, copy herewith.
Hereafter no person claiming to enter
public land under the homestead and
preemption laws will be permitted to
make final proof until notice has been
given rs 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 bis intention to make final proof
Sach notice must describe the land claim
cd. and the claimant must give the
names and residences of the witnesses
by whom the necessary facts rs to set
tIement, residence, cultivation, etc, are
to be established. (See Form No. ID
The filing of such notice must be &C
companisd by deposit of sufficient
money to pay cost of publishing the
notice to be given by the register.
Upon the filing Uf the notice by the
applicant, the register shall publish a
notice of such application once each
week for period of thirty days, in q
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 CON-
pliance with the law will require the
notice to be published FIVE times, because
four weekly publications would not
cover period Of thirty days.
The notice to be given by the register
must state that application to make final
proof has been filed; the name OF tho ap-
plicant; the kind of entry, whether
homestead or preemtion; q description
Of the land, and the names and resi-
dences OF the witnesses as stated in the
application. (See Form No. p
To savc expense, the register may
embrace two or moro cases IN one pub
LEGATION, when it can be done consistent
ly with the legal requirements of pub.
LEGATION in o newspaper published near.
est the land, as per attached 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 DO entitled to make
final proof as provided by tho laws OF
force at the date of the approval in
said act.
The proof that requisite Lutice has
been given will be the certificate of the
register that the notice of tho applIca-
ton "a copy of which should be annex
ed to the cortlicate) was posted BY him
in a conspicuous place in his otfico for
period of thirty days; and the affidavit
OF the publisher or foreman Of the news.
paper that the notice "a copy Of which
notice must be annexed to the afiidavit)
was PUBLISHED in said newspaper once
each week for FIVE successive weoks-
The proof of the publication and post
ing Of the notice must be filed and pre-.
served by the register, to be forwarded
to this fice 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,
J. A. WILLIAMSON,