The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-18
OKLAHOMA SETTLERS.
RULES GOVERNING THE ENTRY on
LANDS IN THAT COUNTRY.
A Letter of Instruction Issued by the GeDa
eral Land Office at Westinghouse Batch
of POstoffice Appointments Made by the
President.

"A Letter of Instruction Issued by the GeDp
eral Land Office at Westinghouse Batch
of Postoffice Appointments Made by the
President.
Washington ID. CO. specially
The Commissioner of the General Land Of
flee, with the approval of Secretary Noble, has
issued to the registers and receivers of the
newly established land offices IN Oklahoma q
letter of instructions, which is of special inter-
est to persons desiring to settle in that Terri
tory The most important features of the let
ter OF instructions are the following: ~
You will observe that the statute reserves
sections Is and SO in every township for school
purposes, and the proclamation reserves fer
government use and control the following viz
One acre of land i'll square form in tho north
west corner of section in township
10 north, range west of tho Indian
meridian in Indian Territory, and also one
acre of land in the southeast quarter of the
northwest quarter of section Is, township is
north, range west OF the Indian meridian, in
the Indian Territory. The remainder of the
lands are made subject to entry by actual set
tiers under the general homestead laws with
certain notifications: Your attention is di-
rected to the general circular issued by this
office Jan. l, 1889, containing the homestead
laws and official regulations hereunder These
laws and regulations will control your action,
but modified by the special provisions of the
said act of March 2 1885, in the following par
ticular viz:
1. The rule stated on the nth page of said
circular, under the title "Only one homestead
privilege to the same person permitted" is SO
modified as to admit of q homestead entry be-
ing made to any one who, prior to the passage
OF said act, hal made q homestead entry but
failed from any cause to q title in fee to-
the land embraced therein or who, having Sc
cured such title did so by what is known as this
communication of his homestead entry
With regard to making homestead entries ana
failing to acquire title Hereunder, or oommut-
ing them after the passage of said act of March
z, 1883, the rule as to second homesteads is op-
erative and will be enforced in relation TO these
lands as well as others.
2. The statute provides for the disposal OF
these lands ito actual settlers under the home
stead laws only" and while providing that the
lights of honorably discharged Union soldiers
Id sailors in the late civil war as defined and
scrlbed in sections 1904 and 1905 of the
v1sed Statutes shall not be abridged" makes
no mention of sections 2306 and 1907 thereof
under which soldiers and sailors, their wild
0 %t an" resar orphan + children are permitted
orally to make additional entries in Ger
tain cases free from the requirement of
actual settlement on the entered tract. II is
therefore held that soldiers or sailors ad-
d1tlonal entries cannot be made on those lands
under said sections 2306 and 2307 unless the
party claiming will, in addition to the proof re-
CURED, make affidavit that the entry is mRdc-
Tor actual settlement and cultivation according
to section 1921 as modified by sections 2304
and 23O5 of the Revised Statutes, and the pre-
scribed proof of compliance Herewith will be
required to be produced before the issue of final
certificate.
8. 1t is provided in the statute that section
these lands. Therefore entries made therein VIII
not be subject to communication under that Sec
ton.
Any person applying to enter or file for n
homestead will be required first to make affidavit
in addition to other requirements that he did
not violate the law by entering upon and occupy
ing any portion of the lands described in the
Presidents proclamation dated March %, 1882,
prior to IL o'clock noon April o. 1897 the affida-
VT to- accompany your returns for the entry
allowed.
The statute provides that town site entries,
may be allowed under sections 23S7 and DIS
United States Revised Statutes, but limits til
are area in any such entry to one-hah section
$40 acres as the maximum, whatever the mum
Der OF Inhabitants. Should applications TO
town site entries or filings be presented b!
parties In interest in the absence of officer
properly qualified to make entry in trust fm
the Inhabitants under the provisions
OF said section 1887, you will note the epplica-7
tions on your records forward report thereof
to this office with any papers presented, an0l
await instructions before allowing any entry.of
the land. No rights under the town site laws
can be acquired to any of the lands described in
the said proclamation prior to the time therein
prescribed for the same to become open to entry
and occupancy aforesaid viz. /: u clock noon
of the 22d of April 1889.
1t appears that by the Presidents order OF the
26th December 1885, a reservation was estab-.
1shed for military purposes of the following
subdivisions of land within the boundaries de-
scr1bed IN said proclamation Of the 23d March,,
1889, and which reservation still continues viz ::
Southwest quarter of section 15 south half of
section 16, south half of section II, southeast;
quarter of section 49, east half of section 49, ALI
of section 90 all of section 81, west half OF
section % west half of section o. aIE
of section 49, all OF section 20, the east
half of section 80, northeast quarter of.
section 81 north half of section 49, north half OF
section 49, and northwest q rter of section a,
all in township - north, range west of the In,
dian meridian. These tracts, in view of their
reservation under the Presidents order of Dec.
26, 1889, are not subject to settlement or entry
under the act OF March 2, 1889, aforesaid, and
the laws of the United States applicable thereto
(see sections 225S and $685. United States Revised
Statutes), and you will permit no entry or fling
for any portion thereof.