The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-06-10
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Tho United Statcs Land Of1cs Il Helena
has favored Us with 4 copy Of = circular which
We publish for the benefit Of such Of our
readers as may be interested in the entry Of
public land under the pr6emption Or home
stead laws. The act upon which those Tegu-
lations are based is given first in order:
TIoNs ron HoMEsTrAD AMI PsEEaPTfoE
ENTRIES OF PUBLIC LANDS. sat
Be y enacted By he Senate ard HOUSE Of Repre-.
s~entatives u tte ltsaedS States Of Aneicai 3, Cn0Tes,
mitted by any person claiming 70 enter agricul-
tural lanfs under the laws providing for pre-
file with the register OF the proper land oflce a
notice OF his or her Intention to make such proof,
stating therein the description of lands to be
whom the necessary facts will be established.
Upon the filing OF such notice, the register
been made once q week for the period Of thirty
days, in q newspaper to be by him designated as
published nearest to such land, and he shall also
post such notice in some conspicuous place in
his office for the same period. Such notice shall
contain the name Of the witnesses as stated in
period Of thirty days, the claimant shall be en-
titled to make proof in the manner heretofore
provided by law. The Secretary of the Interior eric
to the foregoing provisions.
Approved March 8, 1879.
NEW REQUIREMENT AS TO GIVING NOTICE OF
TO PROVE UP HOMESTEAD
AND PREEMPTIoN CLAIMS.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, }
GENERAL LAM OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, d. c., PRIL Is, 1879, }
Registers and Receivers,
U. 8. District Land Offices:
GENTLEMEN :-Your attention is called to
the provisions of the act of Congress entitled
San Act to provide additional regulations for
homestead and presumption entries of public
lands" approved March 8, 1879, copy here
with.
Hereafter no person claiming to enter pub
lie land under the homestead 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 a written notice of his intention
to make final proof. Such notice must de-
scribe the land claimed, and the claimant
must give the name 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 accom-
panied by a deposit of sufficient money to
pay the cost of publishing the notice to be
given by the register.
Upon the filling of the notice by The appli-
cant, the register shall publish a notice of
such application once each week for a period
of thirty days, in a newspaper which he shall
designate, by an order written OF such ap-
plication, as published nearest the land de-
scribed in the application, and he shall also
post said notice in some conspicuous place in
his Office for the same period. Acompliance
with the law will require the notice to be
published weekly five times, because four
weekly publications would not cover a 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 the applicant; the
kind of entry, whether homestead or preemp-
ton /; 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
W or more cases in one publication, when
it can be done consistently with tho legal re-
q~uirements Of publication, in a newspaper
published nearest the land. .
When proof is filed that notice has been
given in the name and for the time re-
quired by said act of Congress, the applicant
will be entitled to make final proof as pro-
vided by the laws in force at the date Of the
approval of said act. S.E-
The proof that requisite notice has been
given will be the certificate OF the register
that the notice of the application "a copy of
which should be annexed to the certiiicate)
was posted by him in a conspicuous place in
his office for a period Of thirty days and the
affidavit Of the Publisher or foreman of the
nawSnannr that the nOffao IA conv IF wb;oh
must be annexed to the afidavit) was pub
lished in said newspaper once each week for
five successive weeks. ~ q
The proof Of the publication and posting Of
the notice must be filed and preserved by the
register, to be forwarded to this office with
the final papers, when issued.
Very respectfully, "a