The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-01-08
Method of Obtaining Title.
%. Any qualified nerson n


ing acts: (a) Personally examining
the land desired; (b) presenting ar
application and sworn statement, &C.
companied by a filing fee of $40;
(c) depositing with the receiver the
appraised price of the land; (d)
publishing notice of his application
and proof; (e) making final proof.
I'll. Examination of the land
must be made by the applicant in
person not more than thirty days
before the date of his application,
in order that he may knowingly
swear to its character and condition.
Application and Sworn Statement:
Deposit.
"12. The application and sworn
statement must contain the appli-
cant's estimate Of the timber, based
on examination, and his valuation
of the land and the timber thereon,
by separate items. (See Form A,
appendix 1t must be executed in
duplicate, after having been read to
or by the applicant. in the presence
of the officer administering the oath,
and sworn to by him before such
officer, who may be either the regis
ter or the receiver of the land dis
trict in which the land is located,
United States commissioner, a
judge or clerk of court of record
in the county or parish in which the
land is situated, or one of these Off
GERS outside of that county or parish
if he is nearer and more accessible
to the land than any other qualified
officer, and has his Office or place
of business within the land district
in which the land is located Each
applicant must, at the time he pre-
sents his application and sworn
statement, deposit with the receiver,
either in cash or in post-office money
orders payable 20 the receiver, a
filing fee of $40.
"13. Applications by associations
or corporations must, in addition to
the facts recited in the foregoing
statement, show that each person
forming the association or holding
stock in the corporation is qualified
to make entry in his own right and
that he is not member of any other
association or a stockholder in any
other corporation which has filed an
application or sworn statement for
other lands under the timber and
stone laws
Disposition of Application.
IA. After application and deposit
have been filed in proper form, as
required by these regulations, the
register and receiver will at once
forward one copy of the application
to the chief of field division having
jurisdiction Of the land described,
who, if he finds legal objection to the
allowance of the application, will re-
turn it to them with report thereon.
| The register and receiver will, il
they concur in an ADVERSE recon-
mendation of the chief of field di-
vision, dismiss or deny the applica-
ton, subject to the applicants right
of appeal; but if they disagree with
his recommendation, they will for
ward the record to the commissioner
of the general land Office, with their
report and opinion thereon, for such
action as he may deem advisable.
"If the chief of field division finds
no such legal objection to the appli-
cation, he shall cause the lands ap-
piled for to be appraised by an off,
Ger or employee of the government.
Designation OF Appraiser, Form B,
Appendix
Appraiscmcnt.
'15. The officer or employee des-
ignated to make the appraisement
must personally visit the lands to be
appraised, and thoroughly examine
every legal subdivision thereof, and
the timber thereon and apprase
separately the several kinds Of tim
Der at their stumpage value, and
the land independent of the timber
at it's value at the time Of appraise-
ment, but the total appraisement OF
both land and timber must not be
less than $3.50 per acre. He must,
in making his report, consider the
quantity, quality, accessibility, and
any other elements of the value of
the land and the timber thereon.
The appraisement must be made by
smallest legal subdivisions, or the
report must show that the valuation
of the land and the estimate of the
timber apply to each and every sub
division appraised. (See Form G,
appendix
$50. The register and receiver,
after noting the appraised price on
their records, will Immediately in
form the applicant that he must,
within thirty days from the date
thereof, deposit with the receiver,
either in lawful money or in post
office money orders payable to the
receiver. or as provided in section
SO hereof, the appraised price of
the land and the timber thereon, or
within the time allowed for payment
file his protest against the appraise-
ment, deposit with the receiver a
sum sufficient to defray the expenses
Of a REIMBURSEMENT (Which sum, not
less than 500, must be fixed by the
register and receiver and specified
in the notice to the applicanD, to-
gether with his application for re-
appraisement at his own expense.
(See Form ID, Appendix.)
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