Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-01-14
Qc-arnn eut Lands

make a request thst egents secure houses for people who live in Indiana. Illinois and Ohio. This arises from She fact ths. people east are not informed ID the land laws, and thInk that all that is necessary in taking claims is for the papers to be filed by an agent, and then they can pay out on the land the same as though the purchase was from private individuals.
 Any person except soldiers and sol diers heirs must make affidavit that they are aoouainted with the land they are entering, and also make affidavit that 10 the best of their knowledge there IS no mineral on the same.
 EXEMPTIONS.
 Section I76 says that every person being the head of family, widow. or single person over the Gge of tIenty-one and a citizen of the United States, or having filed a declaration of intention to become such, ss required by the natural ixgtion laws. who has made or hereafter makes & SETTLEMENT IN PERSON on the public lands subject to pre-emption, and who inhabits and improves the same and who has erected 6 dwelling thereon IS authorized 10 enter with the register Of the United States land office tor the dis trict in which the land hes; by legal sub division acy number of acres not ex- ceedinx one hundred and sixty Bores or a quarter section of land to include the resldepce of such claimant upon paying the United States minimum price or such land. No person who Is the gro prietor of three hundred and twenty acres can pre-empt land. No person who quits or sbsndons his own land to reside on pubic land in the same siate or territory oan pre-empt. Persons can however. take homesteRds and timber claims whether he has tie three hundred and twenty acres or not; neither does ths law prohibit his taking 6 homestead when be has left a residence on bIs own land. The above only refers to pre- captions.
 The first requirement in taking P-e- emption is to select the quarter section desired, and ascertain from the Land Office record that it IS vacant sad sub feet to entry. He must then mske some | improvements. Not stick up stakes but make some substantial improve ulents, and then within ninety days file adeclsratory statement for the land ID the local land office, the fees for which are three dollars. 4 residence must be established on the land when theimprov- ments are first begun, and a acOntlnuous residence is obligatory.
 After 6 continuous residence upon & pre-emption for six months settlement can be proven and the government pr1ce being paid, there will be final receipt issued to the pre-emp.or; bat in case either does pot desire to make final proof Q. the end of six months, he has thirty three months from the time be made settlement
 HOMESTEAD
 Entries must be made in person, usually before the Register of the local Land Office and the entry fees are sixteen dollars. The requirements of the home stead law are about the same as those of the pre-emption, except that residence can be established within six months after making fling; but homesteeds are subject to contests if settlers fail 10 get On the land inside of six months after | entry. Homestesds may be proved up | in six months and paid out oD, the same ss pre-emp.ions, but can be proved mp m SIX years without paying. In making | final proof the settler will be required | to give the number of times he or she has been absent from the claim, where went, and for what they went, and ere | questioned regarding the amount Of i'm. provements they have, if in the judgment of the Register and Receiver the law has not been complied with they will not is- sue final receipt.
 TIMBER CLAIMS
 | Do not require 6 residence. Timber | claims must te entered by personal Bp. plication sworn to within the land dis. trlci where the land is situated, beforC some officer having ssesl and author iged to administer oath. Claimant must have five acres broken the first year, the second year must have five acres broken and culatIyate the first breaking. the third year must put trees, seeds or | cuttings in the first five acres and culh- vste the second five; the fourth yeaI | must set out the second five acres iu trees, tree seed, or tree cuttings. It 1T eight years there are six thousand sever hundred and ifty growing trees on tht tract, claimant can make final proof and secure a patent. Government fees II timber culture claims ere fourteen dol lars for entry and ten dollars for ina proof.
 All duties required by the timber cul ture laws may be done by others e1cep the entry and final proof; nor is he Ol she required 10 reside near the land bu will always be expected to comply will the law in regard to improvements.
 There is nc fixed amount of improve
 ments required ip homestead or pre- emption law, residence and cultivation
 in good faith as home and farm tt
 she claimants best ability is held to b,
 he requirement. of the law.
 | SOLDIERS HoHEsIEADs.
 Soldiers who served In the United States army for ninety days and wer
 honorably discharged and have liveI
 loyal to the government can file declsr
 story statements on one hundred am
 sixty acres of vacant land, by Bl
 agent through the power of attorney Il
 form prcecribed by law. This pOve
 can be executed before notary publl
 anywhere in the United States, ant sent 10 some reliable agent who will se
 iect the quarter section of land snd fil
 on it for the soldier. This filing wIl
 absolutely hold the land for six month
 without the residecee of claimant. A
 the end of six months the solder mus
 begin Q residence and make anotbe
 filing, called the final entry, at whiol
 time be pays fee She same as in home
 stead cases. Soldiers are compelled t live at least one year on their claims but they can deduct their service ss
 soldier from the five years required b
 the common hOmsstes sd and thus get thei | patent in shorter time than he who hs , not served his country ss a soldiei Soldiers widows are entitled to use to
 deceased husbands service while in th var, to assist her in proving up a clsiu , snd if the widow is dead. then one c , the minor heirs can use the right: but l must be done through the guardian q the ohild. Widows and orphans of sol
 aiers will not be required 10 cultivat the land or to personally do the wor
 but can cause the same to be done b others capable to do practical farming
 Good faith and cultivation 10 the best c the ability ofclsimsnt IS all that the lsv , requires.
 The above will show those in the eRs zho do not understand the law govern ing the public domains that it is impos sible for them to acquire land in thi , country without becoming resideu and with the exception of soldiers claim the applicant must appear in person an