The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1899-03-30
UNCLE SANS DOMAIN.
THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF VACANT
LAND STILL LEFT IN SOUTHWEST
MISSOURI.

| THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF VACANT
LAND STILL LEFT IN SOUTHWEST
MISSOURI.
U s. Land Office, Springfield, Mo.
There are about 325,OOO acres of
land in this district subject to home
stead OR cash entry, Missouri being
the only state in which private cash
entries can be made.
Every citizen the head of family,
or over 21 years of age, can home
stead not to exceed 16O acres or can
cash enter at S1.25 per acre not to ex-
cced 32O acres.
The land Office fees and commits
sions, payable when application to
homestead is made, are as follows:
For 160 acres, $14.00.
For 12O acres, 1900.
For 80 acres, ZOO.
For 40 acres, 600.
When a person desires to home
stead he must appear personally at
the district land Office, or before the
Judge or clerk of any court of record
in the county where the land is situ-
ated, and make his application and
affidavit. He must establish his resi-
dcnce within six months from date OF
entry, in q house to be built Oh the
land end must reside on and culti-
vate the land for five years before
making final proof aud securing
patent.
When a wife has been divorced or
deserted by her husband so that she
is dependent upon her own resources
for support she can make home
stead entry as the head of family, or
as single woman.
In case of the death of the entrY-
man, his widow, or in case of hor
death, the heirs have the right, at the
proper time, to make final proof and
obtain patent.
A Union soldier or sailor of the
late war is entitled to a deduction
from the five years of the length of
his military service, but must reside
nt least one year on the land before
making final proof.
Under an act of congress approved
March 2,1889, party who entered
lauds prior to said act, has the right,
where his said entry was cancelled
for any cause to enter again, and
wherc his entry is of frecord, he hav-
ing failed to comply with the laws as
to residence, has the righ: to re]in-
quish his claim to the United States,
and enter the same on another tract;
provided no other right has attached;
the act further provides that, when
all entry has been made, and the ap-
plicant is residing OH the land enter
ed, which was for less than 16O acros,
he has the right to enter if adjoining
enough to make 100 acre: and if mono
is adjoining he has the right to make
entry elsewhere, after having proved
up his first entry, the two entries not
to contain over I60 acres.
FINAL PROOF.
A settler desiring 10 make final
proof must file with the register of
the proper land office written no.
tice, in the prescribed form, Of bis in-
tention to do so, which notice will be
published by the register i'll a news
paper to be by him designated as
nearest the land, once a week for six
weeks, at the applicants expense.
The applicant to make proof blank
No. 4-S4s, homestead, should be
signed by the claimant himself His
four witnesses, should, if possible, be
near neighbors, fully conversant with
the facts essential to perfect proof,
and none of them should be relatives
of the claimant.
The proof should, if possible, be
taken on the day advertised, before
the officer advertised, with the evil
dence of at least two of the witnesses
advertised; these together with the
duplicate receipt and the required
fees and commission to be sealed up
and transmitted to the receiver, on
the same day proof is taken.
The land Office commissions pay
able at the time of making final home
stead proof are as follows, on land
outside the railroad limits:
For 16O acres 81.
For 12O acres 5.
For 80 acres 2.
For 40 acres 1.
The fees for reducing testimony to
writing in making final proof are 15
cents for each 100 words, which in
each case amounts to one dollar,