The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1906-03-03
IGNORANCE no EXCUSE
Interior Department Now Prints on Back Of
u. s. Land Office Receivers Receipt the Law
Relating to Entry Of Public Lands and The
Rules and Regulations Of the General Land
Office.

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made for lands which are either mineral
or saline in character, or for lands which
are. embraced in or covered by any valid
subsisting adverse settlement, applica-
ton, entry, location, or other form of
appropriation, or for lands which have
already been granted, reserved, or with
drawn for any purpose.
ENTRYMAN MUST BE FULLY QUALIFIED
TO MAKE ENTRY.
All entries must be cancelled when
they are held by persons of either of the
following classes: ~ Minors, who are
not heads of families; (2) aliens, who
have. not declared their intentions to
become Citizens; (3) married women,
with certain exceptions; (N persons who
have exhausted their rights by making
other homestead entries; (5) persons who
were at the date of such entry the own
ers of more than 16o acres of land, and
(6 persons who have, since August go,
l8o4 acquired title to, or are claiming
throughssettlement or entry, other agri-
cultural public lands which with the
lands last applied for exceed in the
aggregate $40 acres.
'2s@ FRAUDULENT ENTRIES.
All entries must be declared fraudu-
lent and cancelled where (1) they are
made by disqualified persons who falsely
represent themselves to be qualified; (2)
where they are not made for the sole
purpose of actual residence and cultiva-
ton to obtain home for the entryman,
but are made wholly or in part in the
interest of, or for the benefit of, some
other person, and (3) where they were
originally made in good faith but are
afterwards held in the interest of or for
the benefit of others. An entry made in
good faith, without fraud, becomes a
fraudulent entry and must be cancelled
if the entryman, before final proof, sells
or agrees to sell the land, or any part
thereof or interest therein, to some
other person and thereafter continues
his residence and cultivation, intending,
after proof, to make a conveyance to
such person.
CONTINUOUS BONA F1DE RESIDENCE AND
CULTIVATION NECESSARY.
Homestead entries must bs cancelled
in all cases where the entryman fails, fol
six months from the date of his entry, to
actually abandon all other homes and
make his home in good faith on the land
entered; and when the entryman has in
this manner actually established his
bona fds home on the land to the entire
exclusion of home elsewhere, he mus,
thereafter continuously reside upon and
cultivate the land entered until he has
earned patent, and his failure to do sc
may result in the cancellation of his
entry, unless the register and receiver
for good cause shown, grant him leave
of absence from the land. 1t should be
always remembered by the entrymer
that they can not, while seeking title
under the homestead laws, maintain {
home anywhere except on the land.
FINAL PROOF AND PATANr.
A homestead entryman may, by prov
ing fourteen months residence and cul
tivation and the payment of the mini
mum price of the land, in addition te
ceratin fees, obtain patent; or he may
by proof of five years actual residence
and cultivation, at any time within sever
years from the date of his entry, obtair
a patent by the payment of the fees anc
commissions only except in certain cases
But the entryman may take credit fol
the length of time he resided upon anc
cultivated the land prior to his entry
either in making commutation proof o.
final five years proof. Soldiers of tn.
war of the rebellion, the Spanish-Ameri
can war. and the Philippine insurrection
and their widows and minor orphans are
under certain circumstances, entitled Il
have the period of their service de
Quoted from the period Of FIVE years
residence and cultivation, after the,
have resided upon and cultivated tn.
land for one year.
An entryman desiring to make proc
should, in writing, notify the register ane
receiver of that fact, mentioning tn.
time and place where proof is to be
made, the name Of the officer before
whom he desires to offer proof. and tn.
names of at least four of his neighbors
who can testify Of their own knowledge
as to his residence and cultivation
Upon receipt of this notice the registe
will then issue and publish motto.
naming the time, place, and the office
before. whom proof is to be taken Oh
the date named in the notice the entry
! man must appear before the Office