Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-01-21
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ing the Erice cf puIE5 lands, cad sone l,Sfe c rcarest ihss crerts HsoHTe hcuses for pcoPi5 who iiTs n Indinna' Illinois end Ohio. This Brige5 from the fact ths= people esss ere not informed ID the land leHs, and think that all shat IS necessary ID taking claims Is for tbe paper to bs filed by n agent, and then they can pay out on the lsnd the same as though the purchase was from private individuals.
 Any person except soldiers end sol diers heirs mus; make affidavit that they ara acquainted with the lana they are entering, and also make affidavit that 70 the best of their knowledge there IS nc mineral on the same.
 EXEMPTIONS,
 Section I76 says that every person being the head of family, widow. or single person over the sEe of twenty-one aad citizen Of the United States, or having filed declaration of intention 10 becuIae such, ss required by the natural Izeiion laws. who hos made or b. reaiier makes a SETTLEMENT IN PERSON on the public lands subject to p-e-emptlOn, and who inhabiss and improves the same and who has erected Q dwelling thereon IS authorized to enter with the register of the United States land office for the dis .rlct in which the land hes, by legal sub division aay number of acres not ex- ceeding enc hundred and sixty acres or \ quarter seotiJn Of land to include the residence of such claimant upon paying he United States minimum price or suck land. No person who is she PrO- otlstor of three hundred and twenty acres can pre-enpt land. No persOn who quite or a5gndons his own land to reside on pGblc land m the same staie Jr territory can p-e-cDpt. Persons een however, take hOmesteaGs and timber claims whether he has tie three hundred and twenty acres or no!; neither does the law prohibit his taking homestead when he has left 0 residence on hls own leud. The shove only refers to pre- enptions.
 The first requirement in taking @ pre- emption Is to sslecs the quarter section desired, and ascertain from she Land Office record Ihs: it IS vacant and sub ject to entry. He must then mske some improvements. Not stick up stakes, out make some substantial improve nents. and then within ninety days file .UEEAAIhEtEy he local land office. the fees for winch are three dollars. A residence must be established on the land when the imprOy- aents are first begun, and continuous residence Is obligatory.
 After s continuous residence upon 8 prs-emption for six months settlement can be proven and the government prce being paid, there will Dc final receipt ,sEued to the pTe-enptorj but m case sither does EoT desire to make hnal crcOi 8. tae end ct six months, he has hiriy three months from the time he made settlement.
 HOMESTEAD
 Ent-IeG must be made m person, usually before the Register of the local Land Once and ths entry fees are sixteen loiia-s. The -equIre meuts of the home 5:ead law are about the same as those of she prs-enpuon, except tEat residence ,Gn be established within six months aftsr nakioS fling; but EOmestssds are subject to COD sest5 ii settlers fail to get 3n the leud Ipslde of six months after entry. Homestes6s may be proved up ia six months and paid out on, the same 70 pre-empt;ons. bus o6n 6e proved up ID SIX years vi hout psyirg. In making final proof the settler VIII be re9uiTed 10 give the number of times be or she hss been absent from the claim, where vent, and for whst they went, and are questioned regarding the amount of in. provemeats tboy have. If ID the judgment of the Register and Receiver the lgs has not been complied with they will not is- sue @ final receipt.
 TIMBER CLAIks
 Do not require 8 residence. Timber claims must La entered by persOQai ap- plicatiOn sworn 10 within the land dis trlct where tbe land is sitCa:ed, before some officer having seal and author ized to administer oath. Claimant must have five acres broken she first year, tte second year nus; have five SC es broken and sUlatiSate She fret breaking. the third year Dast put trees, seeds or cuttings Tn the Grst five acres and oIlti vste the second i've; the fourth year must set out he second five acres in trees, tree sced, or tree cuttings. If in eight years tbere are sir thousand seven hundred and dfty growing trees on the s-act, claimant can make final proof and seaure a patent. Government fees ID timber culiuTe claims are fourteen dol lars for entry and ten dollars for final proof,
 All duties required by the timber cul- tuTe laws may be done by others except tho entry and final proof; nor Is be 1r she required 10 reside near the land but vIll always bs expected to comply with the law in regsFd Co improvements
 There is nc fixed amount ct improve | nents required ip homestead or pre- enption law, residence snd cultivstIoa in good faith IS home and farm to the claimants best ability is held to be the requirement. of the law.