Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-06-10

TO the contrary are false, and soldiers
and sailors are warned against imposi-
ton By parties Who offer 20 locate land /
for them, or TO sell their rights
81 Homestead entries can be pnn-
muted to cash only after actual inhabi- |
fancy Of the land by the homestead
party, and bis improvement and c1lti- i
vasion of il for period Of not less than
six months
80. A person who comm1tes home
stead entry cannot move from the tract .
and settle upon other public lands u |
the same State or Territory a. q pre-
emptor.
g. Proof Of settlement and caltivs- |
ton for the prescribed period Is TO Be |
made in the same manner as IN pre- |
emption cases.
"a. A person Committing q home
stead entry when be has not actually
resided upon the land and improved
and cultivated il as required by law,
| forfeits all right 70 the land and 70 the
| purchase money paid. and in addition
| thereto renders himself liable to crimi-
nal prosecution.
IS. A settler desiring to make Anal
| proof mast file with the register OF the
proper land Office a written notice, in
the prescribed form, Of his intention 20
do so, which notice will be published
BY the register in newspaper TO be By
him designated as nearest the land, once
q week for six weeks at the applicants
expense.
3s. Applicants should commence to
make their proof in sufficient time so
that the same may be completed and
fled IN the !scal office within the statu
tory period Of seven years from the date
Of entry.
81. The final affidavits and proof
should DO made before the register or
receiver, but may be made before the
| Judge, or in his absence before the clerk,
| OF court Of record in the county and
State, district, or Territory, in which the
land il situated. IL IN an unorganized
county, the proof may be made in
similar manner in an adjacent county in
| The same State or Territory.
-. When proof Ia made before the
county officers mentioned, the same
must be transmitted by the judge or
clerk Of the court 10 the register and re-
ceiver, together with the same -oomInis-
sions and fees that the land officers
| would have been entitled to receive IL
| the proof had been made by them and
the testimony reduced TO writing by
them.
80. The land Office commissions, pay
able at the time Of making final proof,
in Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana,
Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah,
Washington, Wyoming and Colorado,
are as follows:
Land at $3.50 per acre-For 1cO acres,
$l2; for 50 acres, S.; for 40 acres, 81.
Land at x1.25 per acre-Fsr 100 acres,
| Sc; for 80 acres. 50; for 40 acres, .l.60.
40. The fees for reducing testimony
to writing in making final proof are. in
the former States, Is cents, and in the
latter States and Territories, 221s cents
for each 100 words. No other land office
fees than those stated in this circular
are payable or allowable in homestead
cases.
THE RE-EMPTIox Law.
IL. The qualifications required of
pre- smptor are that he Cor she) shall be
citizen of the United States, Tor have
; declared their intention to become
; such), over II years Of age or the head
OF family; an actual inhabitant of the
tract claimed; and not TO be the propri-
etor of 320 acres of land in any State or
Territory.
AZ. A person who has removed from
} land OF his own to reside on public
J land In the same State of Territory, or
who ha1 previously exercised his pre-
emptioa richt, is not q qualified pre-
emptar
-. iauo4 included in any reserya-
ton, ar w.ias.l re limits of an incor-
porated luwi., OF soected as the site for
city or town, or actually settled and
occupied for purposes Of trade and bus
mess and not for agriculture, or on
which there are any known salines or
minerals, are not subject to pre-emp-
ton.
~. II the land is surveyed, but has
! not been Offered" the declaratory
statement must be filed within three
months from date of settlement. If
upon Offered" land, the filing must be
made within thirty days.
45. II the land il unsurveyed at the
time Of settlement, the declaratory
statement must be filed within three
months after the date Of filing the town
ship plat in the local office.
46. Failure TO file . declsratory state
ment within the time prescribed makes
the land liable to the claim of any ad-
verse settler who does file notice Of his
intention at the proper time.
AZ. The land Office fee for filing
declaratory statement IL 81, except in
the Pacific States and Territories, where
the fee is 81
-. presumption filing can be made
only by an actual settler on the land.
A filing without settlement il fraud
ulent, and no rights ars acquired there
by.
80. The existence of a pre emption
fling on tract of land does not prevent
another fling to be made of the same
land, subject to any valid rights acquired
by virture OF the former filing and act
| nal settlement, IL any.
30. On offered lands, proof and pay
| ment must be made within twelve
| months from date OF settlement.
! 81. IL the land Is unoffered, proof
and payment may be made within thir-
~ three months from date of settle
ment.
52. A failure TO make proof aud pay
ment as prescribed by law, renders the
land subject to appropriation by the
arst legal applicant.
81. The same requirements of actual
inhabitancy and improvement lmust be
observed under the pre- emption law as
under the homestead law.
81. Failure TO inhabit and Improve
tho land In good faith, as required by
law. renders tho claim subject to CON
test and tho entry 70 investigation and
cancellation.
IS. Final proof Ia pre- -emption cases
| must be made to the satisfaction of the
Register and Receiver, whose decision,
N in other cases, il subject TO examina-
ton and review by this office.
s.. Publication OF notice to make
proof is required n in homestead cases
81. The final affidavit must be made
before tho register or receiver, or before
the clerk OF the court of record in the
county and State or Territory where the
land II situated.
81. Tho pre- emptor Il required to
make oath that he has not previously
exercised his presumption right. that he
has not ssttled upon and improved the
land 10 sell the same ON speculation, bat
| In good faith to appropriate IL to his
own exclusive use; that he has not made
any contract or agreement. directly or
indirectly, In any way or manner, with
/ any person whomsoever, by which the