Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-12

ing the lowest numbers, and Ii the
person holding one of these mum
bers, say number 125, either notifies
the superintendent 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
J first 5000 have all been given oppor-
tunity to present their filings. If
No. 251 does not make entry No.
3O02 will likewise be notified, and so
on.
/ II. Persons who decide not to
make entries or filings eeter num-
bers have been assigned to them
should at once notify the superintend-
ent at Washington, D. c., of that act
and thus give some other person the
privilege Of making entry.
49, How applicants may select their
lands.-The 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 a listed
tract from his entry and include
therein a part of another and differ
ent 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 part of quarter
has been entered the remaining part
may be embraced in an entry with
a part of an adjacent listed quarter
section.
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
selections from large map in the
land Office at the time they appear
to 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 its classification. This classifi-
cation and appraiserent 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
fitness for the work.
10. Payments required.-Fees and
commissions amounting to not more
than $14.00 and one-fifth of the ap-
praised value of each entered tract
must be paid at the date of the filing
next spring, and thereafter one-fifth
of 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
entryman fails to make any payment
when it becomes due, all his former
payments will be forfeited and his
entry will be Cancelled. A fee of $500
must be paid on all declaratory state
Ments filed by soldiers, sailors or
their widows or minor orphan chill
dren, Or their agents or guardians,
but at the time entry Is made by
them 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 re-
quired.-Patent may be obtained
either by proving IA months actual
and continuous residence, cultivation
and improvements and the payment
of proof fees and all unpaid INSTALL
ments of the appraised value of the
land, or by proving five years actual
residence and cultivation and the
payment annually of all installments
of the appraised value, and the proof
fees and not more than $500 as
commissions. Actual residence on
the land must begin by all persons,
whether soldiers or otherwise, within
six months from the dates of their
filings, to the exclusion of a home
elsewhere, and it must be continued
until patent has been earned.
Soldiers, sailors, their widows and
minor children must reside on and
cultivate the land for at least one
year, after which they may claim
u Gull III LAO pCAl OO VI IAC ul1lIdAJ
service on the five years residence
required by the law, but it cannot be
claimed on the fourteen months res
idence required in communication
proof. If there were four years. mill
itary service but one years residence
will be required. if three years mill
tary service, then two years resi-
dence will be required, and so on.
but there must be one years actual
residence, as credit cannot be claim
ed for more than four years military
service.
Neither age nor bodily inflrmity
will excuse either a soldier, widow.
minor or any one else from residing
on the land for the period required
by the law, and the residence requir-
ed Of an unmarried entryman is the
same as that required Of an entry
man who has a family.
q. Leaves of absence for not more
than one year will be granted in
cases where an entryman is prevent