Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-08-15
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LAND REVIEWS.

clared their intention to become citizens
of The United States, nor received honor
able discharge from the military service
Of the government, may purchase lands at
private entry within the states and may
acquire title to mineral lands within the
territories. It was probably the inten-
ton Of the lawmakers, when enactilgf
the law on this subject passed by last
congress, to prevent the requirement by
aliens Of title to agricultural lands in the
several territories, by the court or the
interior department, il may be that the
object has been attained. I am of opin-
ion, however, that it is very doubtful
whether the right to purchase land Of
private entry in the territories il any
can be found subject to such entry has
been denied TO foreigners by said act.
In ordinary cases Of entry under the
presumption and timber-culture laws, an
alien who has declared his or her inten-
ton to become citizen OF the United
States may acquire title to public lands.
An entry may be initiated under the
homestead law by one who has made the
declaration Of intention respecting
citizenship, but the naturalization must
be complete before title can be perfected.
In the administration Of the public
land laws, an honorable discharge from
the military or naval service Of the
United States is considered as equivalent
to declaration of intention to become q
citizen SO far as relates to the initiation
of claim.
A declaration Of intention by an entry
man, who dies before being fully natur-
allied, is deemed equivalent to declara-
ton by his widow or minor children.
An alien can acquire no rights, as
against an adverse claimant, by settle
ment upon public lands. Such settlers
rights, in the absence Of adverse claim,
will relate back to date of original settle
ment upon being naturalized.
The alien heirs Of deceased home
steader may purchase under section 2,
act June Is, 1880, unless forbidden by
the alien act referred to above.
The son who came to this country as
a minor with his father, and whose
father still Gving-has only declared
his intention to become a citizen, is not
qualified to make entry without having
filed bis own declaration of intentions.
An alien who has been honorably dis
charged from the military or naval serv-
ice of the United States, may initiate a
homestead entry but must take out citi-
zenship papers before he can complete
his entry and receive patent
The nineteen ear-old daughter Of a
person who had declared his intention to
become citizen, but had not yet re-
ceiyed his final citizenship papers, may
in person or by guardian make proof
upon the homestead of her deceased
father, provided she shall have continued
either in person or by proxy to cultivate
and reside on the land embraced, and is
able to show that she has taken the oath
required by naturalization laws.
The full naturalization of an alien
naturalizes his wife and all MINOR chill
dren.
. The marriage of an alien woman to an
American citizen endows her with citi-
zenship.
The children of an alien who were
minor at the date of his declaration of
intention to become citizen, must COM
plete their naturalization in the event that
the citizenship of the father was not
completed prior to the attainment by
them of their majorities.
An alien who immagrates during his
minority and remains until after his ma
jority must become naturalized if he de-
sires to exercise the rights and enjoy the
privileges of citizenship.
Alien women may be naturalized the
same as foreign born men, the proceeding
being precisely similar.
The rules respecting citizenship in re-
lation to entries of public lands apply to
all alike without regard to sex.
HENRY N. Corr.