The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-08-06
THE u. s. LAND LOTTERY.
Registration May Be Made in Grand
Forks and Devils Lake for Fort Tot
Tan ande

Registration May Be Made in Grand
Forks and Devils Lake for Fort Tot
ten Lands.
Registration for claims on the Dew
lis Lake Indian reservation will begin
Aug. s at Grand Forks and Devils
Lake, and will close on Aug. "a.
The central school building will be
used for the registration in Grand
Forks and ample facilities will be af-
forded for those who desire to take a
chance in Uncle Sans land lottery.
The drawing to determine in what
order claimants may file on the reser-
walton lands, which will be conducted
by the commissioner of the general
land Office, will begin at Devils Lake
on Sept. 6, and each person registered
will be notified by mail what day they
must appear at the Devils Lake land
office to make their entry. Those
whose names are not drawn soon
enough to enable them to entitle them
to ar land will be notified Of the num-
Der their name was drawn.
Each person must personally have a
notary prepare his registration affi-
davit before he goes to the booth to
register, except soldiers and sailors,
who may register by an agent. Blanks
for these may be had now from the
general land office at Washington, but
the agents a n must be filled in at
the time the soldier or sailor affirms
to it. Any fee exacted from an old
soldier or other persons, in the line Of
a locating fee, until it is determined by
the drawing who is entitled to enter
the land, will be in the nature of an
imposition.
There will be no charge for registra-
ton and no advantage will be gained
by being the first or the last to regis
ter, therefore crowding at the regis
tration booths will not be necessary.
Five years from date of entry is re-
quired on homesteads for %perfecting
the title, but these lands may be com-
muted. after fourteen months actual
residence and cultivation by paying
the balance of the. Indian purchase
price CT $3.50 per acre. At the time of
filing the sum of $1.50 per acre must
be paid, together with the usual filing
fee of $14. The balance of the pur-
chase price must be paid in yearly in
stallments.
Only qualified homesteaders will be
allowed to register, and they must af-
firm that fact before q notary public
before going to register
Registration blanks will be fur
nished by the clerk in charge, previ-
GUS to registration, and all notaries in
Grand Forks and Devils Lake who
sign an agreement to charge not more
than rs cents for preparing the same.
Persons who are qualified and who
registered at the Rosebud opening and
do not draw a chance to enter land
will not be disqualified for registering
here.
These disqualified to make a home
stead entry are:
One not a citizen of the United
STAGES or who has not declared his in
tention to become such.
been deserted or abandoned by her
husband.
Any one who is the proprietor of
more than 160 acres Of land in any
state or territory.
One who has acquired title to or is
now claiming title under any of the
agricultural land laws, in pursuance of
settlement or entries made since Aug.
80, 1900, an amount of land which,
with the tract now sought to be n
tered, will exceed in the aggregate
800 acres. Any one who has made q
prior homestead entry.
Any head of a family, though under
age, and any citizen, or n who has
declared his intention to become such,
who is not the owner Of more than
100 acres Of land, who has not made
prior homestead entry, is qualified,
but he must make affidayit that the
entry is to be made for his exclusive
use and benefit and for actual settle
ment and cultivation.
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