The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-09-01
REQUIRED OF SETTLERS.
What Intending Strip Settlers Will Havl
to Do In the Premises.

to Do In the Premises.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-There will
come 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 &C
much trouble is anticipated, were given
to the printer yesterday and will be eN-
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 a citizen of the United
States over 21 years of age, or has de-
clared his intention of becoming one.
1t permits, however, foreigners who
have filed declaration of intention
of becoming a citizen to apply for GER
tificates. The applicant must further
swear that he has not perfected a
homestead entry for 160 atres under
any law except what is kn,wn as the
commuted provision of the homestead
law; that he has not committed q
homestead entry since March .,
1889; that he is not owner in
fee simple of 16o acres of L,n in 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 collusion 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 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 maize
the declaration before me required by tie
presidents proclamation OF -, 1898, and he is
therefore permitted to 60 in upon the lands
opened TO settlement by said proclamation at
the time named therein for the purpose of
making homestead entry on filing n soldiers
dcclaratory statement 1t is agreed Had un-
dcrstood that this certificate will ~. pre-
vent the district land officers from pass
ing upon the holders qualifications
to enter on file for any said lands al the proper
time and in the usual manner, and that the
holder will be required, when he makes his
homestead affidavit or II a soldier q soldiers
agent, when he files q declaratory statement
at the district ONCE, to allege under oath be-
fore the officer taking such homestead affidavit,
or to whom said declaratory statement is pre-
sented for filing, that all of the statements con-
tanned in the declaration made by him upon
which this certificate is based are true in
every particular. (Signed by officer in
charge)
The declaratory statement for SOL
diers is very simple. According to the
law ex-union soldiers are entitled to
select their homesteads where they
come under the general provisions as
set fortE in the oath. Their GA 18th mere
ly sets forth the time they served in the
union army, that they were honorably
discharged and had not perfected entry
under any other law.