Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-03-23


person registering must give the regis
tering officer such appropriate matter
of description and Identification as will
protect the applicant and government
. against any attempted impersonation.
Registration cannot be affected
through the use of mails or the employ
ment of an agent, excepting that hon
orally discharged soldiers and sailors
entitled to the benefits of section 2344
of the Revised Statutes of the United
States, as amended by the act of con-
gress approved March /, 1901 81 Stat.
$40, may present their application for
registration for making homestead entry
and make dual proof of their qualifca-
tons through an agent of their selecr
tion having duly executed power of an
attorney on a blank furnished by the
! commissioner of the general land offices,
but no person will be permitted to act
as agent for more than one soldier or
sailor. No person will be permitted to
register more than once nor will be per-
mitted to register in other than his true
name.
Each applicant who shows himself
duly qualified will be registered and
given a nontransferable certificate to
that effect, and each person holding
such certificate will be entitled to go on
any coded lands subject to entry here
under and examine such lands, but the
only purpose for which he can go upon
such lands is to enable him later on, as
herein provided, to understandingly Sc
ect the lands for which he may make
entry.
1.-THE order in which during the first
tered applicants will be permitted to
make homestead entry of lands opened
hereunder will be determined by draw
ing for the district, held at Wyoming,
commencing at O'Clock, a. M, Satur-
day, August 4, 1906, and to continue for
such period necessary to complete the
same. The drawing will be had under
the supervision and immediate observ-
ance of committee of three persons
whose integrity is such as to make their
control of the drawing guaranty of its
fairness. The members of this COM
mittee will be appointed by the secre-
tary of the interior, who will prescribe
suitable compensation for their services.
Preparatory to this drawing the regis
tration officers will, at the time of reg
istering each applicant who shows him
self duly qualified, make out a card
which must be signed by the applicant,
and such description of the applicant as
will enable the local land officer to there
after identify him. This card will be
subsequently sealed in a separate enve-
lope which will bear no other dis
tinguishing label or mark than such as
may be necessary to show that it is to
go into the drawing. These envelopes
will be carefully preserved and remain
sealed until opened in the course of the
drawing herein provided.
when the registration is completed
all of these sealed envelopes will be
brought together at the place of draw
ing and turned over to the committee
in charge of the drawing who in such
manner as in their judgment will be at
tended with entire fairness and equality
of opportunity, shall proceed to draw
out and open the separate envelopes and
to give to each enclosed card a number
in the order in which the enveloie con-
tanning the same is drawn. The result
of the drawing will be certified to the
officers of the district and will deter
mine the order in which the applicant
may make homestead entry of said
lands and settle thereon.
''Notices of drawing, stating the
name of each applicant and the number
assigned to him by the drawing, will be
posted each day at the place of the
drawing, AMI each applicant win be
notified of his number and the day upon
which he must make his entry, by a
POSTAL card mailed to him at the address
given at the time of the registration.
The result of each days drawing will
also be given to the press and published
as matter of news. Application for
homestead entry during the sixty days
following the opening can only be made
y registered applicar is and in the
order established b tie drawing
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