The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-07-28
DeLand VOlusa County, Florida, Wednesday, July 2S $780,

to live should make up their minds
TO 90 north into the mountains or to
the mountains OF Georgia for two or
three months each summer. This is
universally done, and 4 very good
test OF its necessity. = does not at
all interfere with ho@culture of an
orange grove, as IN thessummer it IS
~the dead season, and there is nothing
to do. Though the thermometer
does not range as high as in the
northern cities the heat is very try
ing, as there are eight or nine months
of summer; the hotties months are
June, Jaly and August The Indian
and shell mounds throughout the
State are OF great interest. OF the
former some have befh opened and
found to contain skoIs, bones, and
pieces OF pottery, together with stone
arrow.heads. They are supposed to
belong to race ante Seminole. The
shell mounds are huge piles ofoyster.
shells, containing many tons each.
There is no record of.how they got
where they are. but it must have
taken lot OF oysters, alot of Indians,
and a lot of indigestion to make
them, 1 should say. The practical
American mind turns them into fer
tilizers for the orange crop, and SO
the delicious mollusc, after decease
of some 100 years, is again put to
use. The best roads in Florida are
she'll roads also; the rest are ofsand,
as there are no stones. What is
most enjoyable about the land is
that it is SO full OF life. The earth,
the air, the sea, birds, insects, plants
and fish--it makes life of double
value to see nature III all her glory,
and watch the thousands OF wonder
ful lives that are contemporaneous
with our own. Sunlight aud life,
evan with the over measure of insect
vitality which accompanies it, are
preferable to. darknesskand gloom.
g. Eea a;a atays
New Land LAWS.
AN ACT to provide for issuing pat
ents for public lands claimed under
the pre-emption and homestead
laws, in cases where the claimants
have become insane.
BE at enacted By tie Senate and
House OF Representatives of'the United
States Of Anaeric0 az Congress assem-
6led, That in all cases in which parties
who regularly initiated claims to
public lands as settlers thereon ac-
cording to the provisions of the pre-
emption or homestead laws, have be.
come insane OF shall hereafter be-
come insane before the expiration of
the time during which their resi-
dence, cultivation, or Improvement
Of the land claimed by them is re-
quired by law to be continued in or
der 20 entitle them to make the
proper proof and perfect their claims,
it shall be lawful for the required
proof and payment 10 be made for
their benefit by any person who may
be legally authorized to act for them
during their disability, and thereupon
their claims shall be confined and
patented, provided it shall be shown
by proof satisfactory to the Commits
sioner of the General Land Office
that the parties complied in good
faith with the legal requirements up
to the time OF their becoming insane,
and the requirement i'll homestead
entries OF an affidavit of allegiance by
the applicant i'll certain cases as a
prerequisite to the issuing OF the pat
ents shall be dispensed with so far as
regards such insane parties.
Approved June s, 1880.
AN ACT TO amend section twenty
two hundred ard sixty.two and
twenty.three hundred and one of
the Revised Statues OF the United
States, iu relation to the settlers
affidavit in pre-emption aud com.
muted homestead entries.
BE 1t enacted By the Senate and
House of Representatives ofthe United
States Of AneericG IN Congress assem-.
Med, That the affidavit required to
be made by sections twenty-five hun
dred and sixty.two and twenty-three
hundred and one of the Revised Stat
utes of the United States, may be
made before the clerk OF the county
court or of any court of record, of
the county and State or district and