The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1895-06-15

GRAND MARAIs MINI. JUNE Is. 1895.
THE LAND LAWS


Suggestions as to Entering Government
lands In the Duluth District:
HoMEsTEADs.
There are about 100000 acres Of land
in this district belonging to the govern
.ment. No lands are subject to private
cash entry.
Homestead entries can be made for.
not more than one quarter section, or
100 acres of land.
All applicants must stand upon equal
footing, with equal rights and privileges
to enter the public lands. "First come,
first served
The land Office fees and commissions
payable when application is made, are as
follows:
On lands outside the railroad limits,
.5$1400 for 100 acres; $500 for 100 acres;
$500 for 80 acres; 5000 for 40 acres.
On lands within the railroad imiJs,
$500 for 160 acres; $500 for 120 acres;
$500 for 80 acres; $500 for 40 acres.
An entry of S1.05 acres will cost $l0.-
90 fee besides the regular commissions
at either $1.25 or $3.50 per acre.
The applicant must in every case
state IN his application his place of
actual residence, and the postofice adj
dress to which notices relative to his
entry shall be sent, and his full name.
Amendments of filings and entries
are allowed by the general land office
by statute for real errors, where entries
were made by mistake on the wrong
tract, but not for blunders which he
claimant could have avoided by red
,sonable care and investigation. Applica-
ton for amendment MUST be sworn to
and corroborated under seal and in no
case need be more than two pages in
length; must show how the error was
made; the applicant has not sold or
encountered the tract, and the amend
ment is not asked for the porpose of
letting some one else enter the tract
vacated.
The homestead affidavit can be made
before the judge or clerk of a court of
record of the county where the land is
situated, or before a commissioner of
the United States circuit court having
jurisdiction over the county, and save
the journey to the land office. Where
proof is made before any of these officers
it must be done in the county where the
fand is situated.
Entries under the homestead law can
be completed after five years actual
residence; but the applicant is required
to file with the register his notice of
intention to make proof, and the appli-
cant must appear with two witnesses
named in the notice and make proof on
the day named, and before the officer
mentioned.
In case of death of entryman, his
widow has the right, at the proper time
to make proof of his residence, and her
residence or cultivation of the tract for
required time, and in case of the death
of the widow, then the minor heirs of
the en;tryman, and if not minor heirs,
the adult heirs. -
A homestead right cannot be devised
away from the widow or minor children.
Under an act of congress approved
March 2, 1889, party who has entered
lands prior to said act has the right,
where his entry has been cancelled for
any cause, TO enter again, and where the
entry is Of record, has the right to relin-
,quish his claim to the United States and
enter the same or some other tract,
provided no other right has attached;
the act further provides that, where an
entry has been made and the applicant
is residing on the land entered which
was for less than 100 acres, he has the
eight to enter if adjoiring, enough land
to make 100 acres; or he has the right
to make an additional entry elsewhere,
after having proved up his first entry,
the two entries not to contain over 100
acres.
A party desiring to relinquish bis land
10 the United States for the purpose of
ige-entering or for the purpose of letting
others enter, must make the following
REIMBURSEMENT on the back Of his du-
plicate receipt, before some officer with
9 seal: Il hereby relinquish all my right
title, interest and claim in and to the
within described Ian DIS to the United
States" Relinq uishment made at the
land office, can be made without any
cost. In the event of the loss of the
duplicate receipt. an affidavit accounting
for the loss, made under seal and rein-
aulshment thereon will be sufficient.
A single woman does not forfeit her
homestead epIry by marriage if there
after she continues to comply with the
Jaw as to residence, Improvements, and
cultivation, provided her husband is
not attempting to acquire title to land
at the same time where residence is
yequired.
The first actual settler who makes