The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-09-02
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RESERVATION
GOVERNMENT ADOPTS PLANS
FOR DRAWING.
THE LATEST INFORMATION
HOW TO GET A FREE HOME IN
SOUTH DAKOTA.

of the new lands in South Dakota
and below We give them in full that
our readers may know how to take
advantage of the coming opportunity.
In the first reports regarding registra-
ton the name of La Beau was omit
ted. All the points where this may
be done are Aberdeen, lie Beau, Lem
4on, Mobridge, Pierre and Bismarck
in North Dakota. If you intend to
participate in this benevolence of
Uncle Sam read the following:
/. All persons qualifiedt make
homestead entry may, On and after
the fourth day of October and prior
to and including the twenty-third day
of October, 1909, but not heretofore
or thereafter, present to James w.
Witten, superintendent of the open
ing, at the city of Aberdeen, in the
state of South Dakota, by ordinary
mail, but not in person or by regis
tered mail or otherwise, sealed en-
velopes containing their applications
for registration for lands in any or
all of said reservations, but no en-
velope should contain more than one
application and no person should pre-
sent more than one application for
lands in the reservations.
2. All applications for registration
must be on forms furnished by the
general land office, and they must
show the name, postoffice address,
age, height and weight of the appli-
cant and be sworn to by him on or
after October 4 and prior to and in
cluding October %, 1909, before some
notary public designated by said sup
erintendent.
3. Applications for registration
must be sworn to at the following
places and not elsewhere. Applica-
ffions for land must be sworn to at
either Aberdeen, Lennon, lie Beau,
Mobridge and Pierre in South Dako-
ia, and ~ Bismarck in North Dakota.
A. Persons who were honOrably dis
charged after ninety days service in
the army or navy of the United
States, during the war of the rebel
lion, the Spanish-American war, or
the Philippine insurrection, or their
widows or minor orphan children,
may present their applications for
registration, either in person or
through their duly appointed agents,
but no person can act as agent for
more than one such applicant, and all
applications presented by agents
sented by them at the same places
and in the same manner in which
other applicants are required to pre-
sent their applications.
s. Beginning at 10 o'clock a. m. on
October 26, 1909, at the city of Aber-
deem, in the state of South Dakota,
and continuing thereafter from day
to day, Sundays excepted, as long as
may be necessary, there shall be inn
partially taken and selected indis-
criminately from the whole number
of envelopes so presented such num-
bers thereof as may be necessary to
carry into effect the provisions of
this proclamation, and the applica-
| -tions for registration contained in the
envelopes so selected shall, when cor
rect in form and execution, be num-
bered serially in the order in which
they are selected, beginning with
number one for the lands within each
of said reservations, and the numbers
thus assigned shall fix and control the
order ir which the persons named
therein may make entry after the
lands shall become subject to entry.
6. A list of the successful appli-
cants, showing the number assigned
to each of them, will be conspicuous
ly posted and furnished to the press
for publication as a matter of news,
ard proper notice will be promptly
mailed to each person to whom a
number is assigned.
7. Beginning at o'clock a. M, on
April l, 1910, and continuing thereaf-
ter ON such dates as may be fixed by
the secretary Of the interior, persons
holding numbers assigned to them
under the proclamation will be permit
ted to present their applications to
enter Cor file their declaratory state
ments in cases where they are en-
titled to file declaratory statements)
at the land Office for any land dis
trict in which their numbers entitle
them to make entry, in order in
which their applications for registra-
tion were selected and numbered, but
no person can present more than one
application to enter or file more than