The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-01
REQUIRED OF SETTLERS.
What Intending Strip Settlers Will Have
to Do in the Premises.


WASHINGTON. Aug. 25.-There will
come a mighty day of reckoning for
some of those land sharks who have
prepared to invade the Cherokee outlet
and take valuable lands without COM
plying with the requirements OF the in
terror department.
These requirements, about which so
much trouble is anticipated, were given
to the printer Yesterday and will be ex-
tensively circulated just as soon as
they can be published, forming part
of the proclamation. They are
more explicit than any heretofore
given. and are an entirely new de-
parture. The oath which every pros
pective homesteader is required to take
before receiving a certificate, sets forth
that he is either citizen of the United
States over 81 years of age, or has de-
clared his intention of becoming one.
1t permits, however, foreigners who
have filed a declaration of intention
of becoming citizen to apply for GER
tificates. The applicant must further
swear that he has not perfected a
homestead entry for 100 acres under
any law except what is known as the
committed provision of the homestead
law: that he has not committed a
homestead entry since March 2.
1889: that he is not owner in
fee simple of 100 acres of land i'm any
state or territory; that he will not
enter upon or occupy lands in violation
of requirements of the presidents proc
lamation; that entry is desired for pur-
pose of actual settlement; that the
land is not entered in collision with
other people to give them the benefits;
that he is not an agent of any person
or CORPORATION. and does not enter for
the purpose of speculation, but for the
| sole purpose of securing q homestead
for himself The certificate which is
then handed him is dated at the booth
| from which it is issued, and each of the
| booths are named.
The certificate reads as follows:
| This Certifes that -- has this day made
| the declaration before me required by thu
| presidents proclamation of -, 1872. and he l.
| therefore permitted TO go in upon the lands
| opened to settlement by said proclamation a
| the time name1 tneTeln. iOE inc puIpOSc U
| making a homestead entry on filing soldiers
| declaratorv statement 1t is agreed and un
derstood that this certificate will not pre-
| vent the district land officers from pass
ing upon the holders qualification
| to enter on file for any said lands at the prope
| time and in the usual manner. and that thu
holder will be required, when he makes hi
homestead af1idavit or if a soldier or a soldier
agent, when he files a declaratory statement
| at the district Office, to allege under oath be
| fore the officer taking such homestead affidavit
| or to whom said declaratory statement is pre-
scented for filing, that all of the statements con
| tanned in the declaration made by him upol
| which this certificate is based are true Il
every particular (Signed By officer II
| charge.)
The declaratory statement for sol
diers is very simple. According to tn
law ex-union soldiers are entitled t.
| select their homesteads where the,
come under the general provisions a
set forth in the oath. Their oath mere
" sets forth the time they served in tn
union army, that they were honorabl.
discharged and had not perfected entr.
under any other law.