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

must file copies OF their fathers
last papers" ,ssa u ess. tt'..%~ a@ % 4
, Is. Notice Of time and place of
making entry.-Notice OF the time
and places where applicants may
make their filings will be mailed to
them not later than March /, 1910,
at the address given in their appI-
cations for registration, and If any
person to whom number is assign
ed changes his residence before re-
ceiving this notice he should send
his new address to me at Washing
ton, D. c., and request the postmas-
ter at his former address to forward
his mail to his new address.
16. The number of persons first not
flied to appear and make entry on a
given date will not exceed the num-
Der Of quarter sections which will be
subject to entry, but If any person to
whom a number is assigned notifies
me that he has decided not to make
entry, or If any person fails to ap'
pear and present his filing on the
day assigned him for that purpose,
the person holding the lowest num-
Der under which no date has been
assigned for filing will be at once
notified to appear and present his
application on some date after all
persons to whom dates have been as
signed have had opportunity to make
entry. For instance, If there are but
5000 quarter sections to be entered
notices of dates for filing will be sent
to the three thousand persons hold
ing the lowest numbers, and If the
person holding one of these num-
bers, say number 1875, either notifies
me that he will not make entry or
fails to make entry on the day as
signed him, the person holding num-
Der 1901 will be notified to appear
and make entry on date after the
first 5000 have all been given oppor-
tunity to present their filings.s If
No. Isl does not make entry No.
S0O2 will likewise be notified, and so
on.
II. Persons who decide not tt
make entries or filings after num-
bers have been assigned to them
should at once notify me at Wash
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give some other person the privilege
Of making entry.
Is. How applicants may select their
commissioners appoint
ed by the president will list, classify
and appraise each quarter section
(160-acre tract) separately, and ap-
plicants will be required to enter
them as listed, as far as possible.
No applicant will be permitted to
omit an unentered part of listed
tract from his entry and include
therein a part of another and differ
emit listed tract, but in cases where
a listed tract embraces less than a
quarter section it and a part of any
adjacent listed tract may be embrac-
ed in the same filing. In cases where
an applicant desires to make either
an original Or a second homestead
entry for less than 100 acres he may
enter a part Of listed quarter: sec
tion-and where a part of a quarter
has been entered the remaining part
may be embraced in an entry with
q part of an adjacent listed quarter
section. ..,. :; .....,.... -.
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Persons to whom numbers are as
signed may go upon the reservation
at any time to inspect the lands and
make their selections, or they may,
with reasonable safety, make their
from a large map in the
land office at the time they appear
20 make their filings. This map and
The map which will be mailed to ap-
plicants will show the appraised
value of each listed quarter section
and it's classification. This classif-,
cation and appraisement will be
made by the three sworn commits
sioners appointed by the president,
after they have personally inspected
and examined. each tract, and their
estimate can be safely accepted as
being as good as that Of any other
person, since they are disinterested
and were selected because Of their
illness for the work. PSI e. 81. Z .s.fG29&55sS
10. Payments required.--Fees and
amounting to not more
than $14.O0 and one-flfth Of the APP
praised value OF each entered tract
must be paid at the date of the fling
next spring, and thereafter one-fifth
II the balance OF the appraised value
must be paid annually at the end OF
one, two, three, four and FIVE years
after the date of the entry. If any
sntryman fails to make any payment
when 1t becomes due, all his former
will be forfeited and his
entry will be Cancelled. A fee OF $500
must be paid on all deciaratory state
ments filed by !. soldiers, sailors. or
their? widows or minor orphan chill
dren, or their agents OF guardians,
but at the time entry lie made by
hem and thereafter they must make
The same payment Of fees, commits
sions, and purchase money which
other entrymen are required to make.
20. Residence and cultivation res
quired. Patent may be obtained
either by proving ia months actual
ana continuolis reside nce, cultivation
and improvements and the payment
Of proof fees and all unpaid Install
ments of the appraised value Of the
land, or by proving i've years actual
residence and cultivation and the
annually OF all insta1lments
Df the appraised value, and the proof
lees and not more than $500 as
commissions. Actual resid ence on
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