The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-06-14
HOMESTEAD RIGHTS RESTORED.
UNITED STATES Land OFFICE. J
DODGE CITY, KAs., JUNE 6, 1895 {

| DODGE CITY, kAS., JUNE b, 1879 J
! DEAR SIR Your attention is called
to the provisions of an act OF Congress
approved December %, 1894, entitled,
"An Act to amend Section 8 of an Act
to withdraw certain public lands from
private entry, and for other purposes,
approved March second, eighteen hun
dred and eighty-nine.' Section of
the act of March 2, 1Ss9,(25 State,
s54) reads AS follows:
''That whenever it shall be made to
appear to the register and receiver of
any public land office, under such reg
ulations as the Secretary of the Inter-
ior may prescribe, that any settler
upon the public domain under existing
law is unable, by reason of a total or
partial destruction or failure of crops,
sickness, or other unavoidable casual
ty, to secure a support for himself.
herself, or those dependent upon him
or er, upon the lands settled upon,
then such register and receiver may
grant to such, leave of absence from
the claim upon which he or she has
| filed, for period not exceeding one
year at any one time, and such settler
so granted leave of absence shall for
felt no rights by reason of such alb
sence: Provided, That the time of
such actual absence shall not be de-
Quoted from the actual residence re-
Quired by law"
And provision added thereto by the
amendatory act is rs follows: ''That
if any such settler has heretofore for
feited his Oh her entity for any of said
reasons, such person shall lie permit
ted to make entry of not to exceed
quarter section on any public land,
subject to entry under homestead law
and to perfect title to the same under
the same conditions in every respect
as If he had not made the former entry.
No party will Ee entitled to make
a second entrv under this act, unless
his former entry is cancelled for any
of the causes named, arising before
December 20, 1894.
The applicant for such permission
to make a second entry will be requir-
ed to file the regular homestead appli-
cation and affidavit form 4-007 and
4-063) with description of the for
mer entry and date of REIMBURSEMENT
or cancellation written in the home
stead affidavit after the word except.
An applicant to make second entry
under this act must file with his ap-
plication written testimony to consist
of his own affidavit, corroborated by
the affidavits Of at least two disinter-
ested witnesses, executed defore the
register or receiver o. some officer in
the land district using seal and aU-
thorized to administer oatlis, setting
forth in detail the fact on which he
relies to support his application, and
which must be sufficient to satisfy the
register and receiver that his former
entry was in fact forfeited prior to
December %, 1894, by reason of his
inability, caused by total or partial
destruction or failure of crops. sick
ness OF other unavoidable casualty, to
secure support for himself or those
dependent upon him, upon the land
settled upon.
The facts to be shown embrace the
following, viz.
l. The character and date of the
former entry; date of establishing res
idence upon the land; and what I'M
plicant.
| e. How much land was cultivated
by the applicant, and for what period
of time, and TO what kind of crops.
8. In case of failure or injury to
crop, what crops failed or were injur-
ed or destroyed. the cause thereof,
and to what extent.
| 4. In case of sickness, what dis
ease or injury, and TO what extent
the claimant was thereby prevented
from continuing upon tue land, and
a certificate from Il reliable physician
should he furnished.
/ 5. In case of unavoidable casualty.
the character, cause and extent Oi
of such casualty, and its effect ul.on
the land or the claimant.
i 6. Date when said land was for
feited or abandoned.
7. In each case give fell parlicL.
lars upcn which intelligent action maJ
be based 10y the register and receiver.