Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-01-21

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| earliest convent ns5 q hill FUr IN act cover.
ing substantially the following question::
First-To decide without question or
| doubt as to the application OF homestead
! law when the same u c~oiffEnutsd In refer.
"a ee,s,,.r's right OF pre-emption, tEsen
sabseanently or priof TO said
tioH. .a
~serond--To provide that when localland
| oaicars issue final receivers receipts, such
recent shall DO conclusive as TO the set
| slsr's right to the land mentioa ed therein
| and upon which patent shall be issued there
on. said receipt to be All abso'uts transfer
| Of title from the government.
Third-T'o quiet title in owners TO All
| Il nds ppun which final receipt has been is,
sued ub 10 The passage OF this act, and
provide for the ssuance OF n patent tnere'
Tor forthwith, without further question.
Fdurtls-To provide that all actual ana
| bona fde settlers Who Save settled, upon
vacant government land In good laith I'M
! der either homestead or ~pre-emption avs
having previously exhausted their rishtS
under either one OF said land laws, as mere
tofore permitted to do under the usases
and customs OF the land department nun,
erto. since the passage OF the homestead
law, be permitted to complete their title
thereto under the other Of said laws after
6 lwulyinr with rules az to settlement ana
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cultivation.
M. MeLaren OF Steele, Of the committee
on division and admission, made the ioi'
lowing report:
Steps having been taken at the seat OF
government at Washington looking to the
Immediate solving Of all questions OF the
| 6iyision.of Dakota Territory and admls-
sion as a whole or part, with a view to
avoid ans embarrassment OF our deiegats
in congress, and the members 81 congress
having these questions uuder consideration,
and TO avoid in any way hinderins them
in their action, be 1T
Resolved. That this convention take no
action whatever on this question oil admis-
sion and division, either or both, ana Tor
mulate no further resolution thereon si'
Their recommendation or advisory.
Resolved, That the citizens OF the entire
Territory OF Dakota have aided in its up
building to its present position OF prosper
ity, and TO all Of the citizens alike Is that
name endeared, and IL is the sense OF this
convention that the name Dakota should
be given 10 no other section oil the present
territory TO the exclusion Of any other sec
ton.
Resolved, That all resolutions hereto
fore referred to your committee be hereby
referred back to this convention with rec
concentration that they be laid upon the
table,
On motion OF Mr.. Root OF Barnes the re-
port was unanimously adopted. On mo-
ton Of Mr.. Ball the vote was recon
siaered and the motion laid on the table.
On motion of Mr.. Stevens OF ~
county q resolution offered by himself was
adopted endorsing the action OF Hon.
Knute Nelson in his endeavor to open the
Red Lake Indian reservation. Mr.. White
submitted "a resolution asking congress
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division should be made the 2eventh stand
ard parallel instead OF the forty-sixth.
This was the cause Of q long debate, dur
ing which the Missouri river was proposed
as one OF the amendments. MIR. White OF
fered the following as II substitute Tor his
original motion:
Without hereby deciding upon the merits
OF the Harrison bill and without ~intruding
hereby to endorse the same. he IT
Resolved. That the said bill should not
be passed through the present congress oil
the United States without first i~ncorPorat'
ing therein the ameadment proposed in these
resolutions.
Judge West moved TO amend the resOlu.
ton still further by Incorporating n CLAUSE
requesting that in case the bill passed con
gees the name Dakota" be not appropri'
ated By the southern portion. Theamend'
ment was accepted and the resolution
passed. The ~iolloSing dispatch was read
by Judge West from Delegate Clifford:
II the convention at Fargo desires ths
name ni North Dakota a division and sc
will declare, we will certainly see II
done. The bin has been changed to leaving
all the records, library and one-halt 81
the territorial moneys on North Dakota
Thus the convection win declare in favor
OF division. 1t is quite important that il
should do so ut this time.
The convention adjourned sine die.