Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-09-01


husband is incapac itated by disease
or otherwise from earning support
for his family, and his wife is the
head of the family, and its main sup
port, she can register and make entry
in her own right. A deserted wife
may. register.
(b) One who is not citizen of the
United States, and has not declared
his intentions to become such citi-
zen, cannot register. Persons who
were formerly citizens of the United
States but who have become citizens
of some other country, must declare
their intentions to become citizens of
the United States before they can
register or make entry.
(c) Minors cannot register, except
in cases where they will become
twenty-one years old before they are
required to make entry next spring,
or where they are the head of a
family, and it's main support. Minor
orphan children of soldiers may reg
lister.
(d) A person cannot register who
Is the proprietor of more than one
hundred and sixty acres Of land in
the United States, regardless of
whether he obtained title to his land
from the government or otherwise.
Ownership Of land in Canada or else
where outside of the United States,
does not disqualify one from regis
tering. One who is the owner of a
town lot or any other amount of land
in excess of 16O acres, cannot regis
ter, and one who holds an enforce
able contract of purchase, or bond
for a deed to lands, or who claims
ownership of lands under a registers
final certificate issued on final proof
under an entry of any kind made by
him is considered the owner of the
land embraced in the contract, bond
Or certificate for the purpose of de-
termining his right to register.
(e) A person cannot register who
has acquired title to or is claiming
under any of the non-mineral public
land laws, through settlement or en-
try made since August 80, 1890, any
other lands which, with the lands
applied for, would in the aggregate
amount to more than three hundred
and twenty acres.
No person can register who has
previously made homestead entry
except as follows, when he is other
wise qualified.
(f) One who committed a home
stead entry prior to June 5, 1900, and
has not since that date made another
entry may register and make entry,
but he cannot commute the entry so
made. Persons committing since
that date cannot register.
(g) A person may register who
prior to May II, 1900, paid for lands
in a former Indian reservation to
which he would have been after
wards entitled to receive patent with
out payment under the Free
Homes" act.
(h) A person may register who
for any cause lost, forfeited, or aban-
doned his homestead entry prior to
February 8, 1908, if the former entry
was not Cancelled for fraud or re-
linquished for valuable considera-
ton. Where such entryman sold his
REIMBURSEMENT or received pay for
his improvements as an inducement
to him to relinquish, he cannot reg
lister, regardless of the fact that his
improvements may have cost him
more than the amount he received
for them. =
ID A person who has made final
proof under his homestead entry for
less than 100 acres may register and
make entry of such an area as will,
when added to the lands embraced in
acres.
5. Who may register by agent
Soldiers and sailors who were hon
orably discharged after ninety days
actual service during the War of the
Rebellion, or during the Spanish
American War, or the Philippine In
surrection (Which begun April 81,
1898, and lasted until July Is, 1903,)'
or their widows or minor children
may register either in person by 60
ing to any Of the registration points,
or through an agent who visits a reg
istration point, but widow cannot
register If she has remarked and her
second husband is still. living. A
minor child of deceased soldier can
not register either by agent or in
person, If his mother is still living
and unmarried, but If the mother is
either dead, Or remarked and now
has a husband living, he may regis
ter. ALI the minor orphan children
of soldier may register d Jointly
either through one Of the minors or
by their agent or guardian, but each
of the minors cannot register. sepa-
rately for himself and in his own in
divfdual behalf in cases where there
are more than one minor child Of the
same soldier. The registration and
entry must be made in the interests
of all the minors. or = .. :,
J. Persons who served in the army or
navy in the time Of peace and did not
serve for 80 days during either Of the
wars mentioned above, and the chill
dren Of soldiers who are over twen-
ty-one years of age cannot register
by agent but must go to one OF the
registration points for that purpose
80. Appointment II OF agents.-All
agents should be appointed on blank
powers Of attorney, printed In the
form and words hereto attached, on
one side Of heavy weight paper Of