The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-08-14
To Homestesders
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- s""s w inc obste where The land
applied for arc situated give her IA.
right TO acquire and hold utle to land,
IN . femme sole.
.. IL an entrymsn deserts his wife
and abandons The land covered by IA.
entry, his wife then has the excluHiys
right TO contest the entry IL she ha.
continued to reside ON the land, aud On
securing its cancellation she may on.
Ter tho land IN her W right, or sAe
may continue her residence and max.
proof IN the name vi and Us tho agen,
ior her husband, and patent wall ISSUE
to him.
v. IL AL sntryman deserts his minor
children and abRRdons AIS entry altar
the death Of has wife, the ehidreu Fave
the same rights the VIE could have
exercised had she been deserted dur.
ing nor lifetime.
". " a husband aud wife ara each
holding an original entry or q second
entry At the same time, they must 70.
In9pish Que vi the entrIes, unIas. one
Of them holds an entry a. the heir OF
q former sntryman or settler. In cases
where they can not mold both sntri...
they may elect Which one they Will 10.
tam and relinquish the other.
Al. The unmarried widows OF .ol.
dicrs and sailors who were honornbly
discharged after ninety days actual
services during the war OF the rebellion
of the spanish'American war, or Phnip.
pine Instruction, may make entry MA
sueh widows, II their husbands di,d
without making entry; but a widow
may make entry IN her own right .s
a unmarried woman, regardless of tho
iaet that her husband may have made
entry but she can not claim credit \
Tor her husband . service. '-
IL. A person serving In "A.
or Navy Of the United, y
make a homestead snsSyT Arm,
Der Of bis family , .atss ma
lands applied DO # some men
and aeeonps . residing on tn
executed =, and the applieatio
me aging aihdavits may b
, before the officer eommandin
ranch Of the service in which B
. engaged.
10. Second homestead entries for
quarter section or q smaller legal SUI
division Of public lands may be mad
under statutes specifically authoriziI
such entries by the following classes
persons, IL they are otherwise qualih'
to make entry.
(a) BY u former entryman who col
mutsd his entry prior to June 5, l9C
(b) BY homestead entryman wi
prior to May IL, 1900, paid for Ian
to which they would have been aft
wards entitled to receive 4 patent wit
out payment, under the Free hoI
act"
(e) BY any person who for a
cause lost, forfeited or abandoned
homestead entry before February
1908, IL the former entry was not ca
celed for fraud or relinquished for
valuable consideration.
(d)ARy person who has already ma
hnal proof for less than 100 acres
der the homestead laws may, II he
otherwise qualified, make u second
additional homestead entry for 81
an amount Of public lands as viii, WI
added to tho land for which he has
ready made proof, net exceed in
aggregate 100 acres.
Any person desiring to make q s
ond entry must first select and insp
the land he intends TO enter and Il
make application therefor on blaI
furnished by the register and receiS
Each application must state the d
and number Of his former entry Z
tho land Office al which 1t wa ma
OF give the section, township, and RAJ
in which the land catered was loeai
Any person mentioned in paragraph
above must show, by the oaths Of b
self and some other person or Perst
the time when his former entry
Loaf, forfeited or abandoned or 70
pushed for q valuable eonsideratI
Ia. An additional homestead en-
may be made by q person for such
amount Of public lands adjoining In
then held and resided upon by him
der his original entry as wills W
added to such adjoining lands, not
coed in tho aggregate 100 acres.