The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1907-02-23
PRESIDENT
MOD|F|ES ORDER.
Sweeping Regulations Relative 7
Land Entries Are Modified BY
Order Replacing That Of
January 25th.

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water on bis recent land Office order
which prohibited the issuance oi
final certificates on all lands entered
upon under the United States laws
until a SPECIAL government agent
had personally inspected the claims
and made a report.
A circular letter from the presi-
dent has been received at the United
States land Office in Marquette, says
the Mining Journal, replacing he
order OF January 2bth, and modify
ing the provisions OF that order.
The new ord IT is as follows:
"Since there is some uncertainty
concerning the meaning of the order
OF January 25th, relating to issuance
OF evidence of title under the public
land laws, I reissue the order in the
following more specific form:
ITO facilitate the final disposition
of proper applications for patent
and to prevent the fraud now prac-
ticed in the acquisition Of public
lands OF the United states, ! have to
direct that hereafter no final certi-
ficate, patent or other evidence OF
title shall be issued until an officer
authorized to make field examina-
tion has made such examination or
has obtained Information OF equiva-
Ilent value. This order, however,
shall not be taken to affect or mod
ify the following:
~. Final fve-year home
stead entries heretofore made where
the proof is satisfactory and CON-
plete.
- Fisal certificates and receipts
in fioal five-year homestead proofs
heretofore or hereafter made when
the proof is satisfactory and COM
plete.
"3. Homestead entries.commuted
on ceded Indian lands in which an
nual payments are required.
"A. Entries where claimants s
compliance with law has been estab-
lished by contest or other regular
adverse proceedings.
"5. Entries confirmed which may
have been confirmed by virtue Of any
act OF congress.
"6. Selections and entries 10
which no residence or improvement
is required by law when the lands
embraced therein are situated in
non mineral localities, as shown by
the records OF the geological sur
vey, or when their character has
been fixed by Investigation and
classification made in accordance
with law.
'7 Resistance Of patents because
OF some clerical error occurring In
patents heratofore issued.
| "8. Military bounty lands war
rants and other similar warrants
when the requisite proof has been
made.
This order is to replace my order
OF January Is, 1907.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
GAVE WAY TO PRESSURE.
| In his new order The president
says he re-issued the order because
OF Uncertainty concerning the or
der OF Jan. 26th." But those who
have followed the situation since the
presidents order caused o storm oi
protest because OF its rigorous re-
strictions say that be was practi
cally forced to modify the order
The congressman from the different
states Of the Northwest combined Ia
q protest in the interests Of their
constituents, kilograms of protes,
poured into the Washington land
Office from all parts Of the north
west.
II the president had persisted in
his original order it would have
caused great hardship among the
bonafide homesteaders OF the north
west, and in his special message to
congress delivered last weel
President Roosevelt made It plain
that the frauds he referred to Ia
the sweeping order we're the frauds
10 the coal and grazing lands Of the
far west.