The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-08-07

his declaratory statement, or he may
make entry in person without FIRST al.
ing a declaratory statement II he 80
chooses. The application 20 enter may
be presented 10 the land Office through
the mails or otherwise, but the declare.
tory statement must be presented Of
the land Office In person, either by the
soldier or sailor, or by bis agent, aud
can not be sent through the mails.
BY Whom Homestead Entries May BE
Made.
o. Homestead entries may be made
for = quarter section OF less by any
person who does not como within either
Of the following ~elassess
(a) Married women, except as here.
%inaftsr stated.
Oh Persons who have already made
homestead entry, except ~ hereinafter
stated.
q Foreign. born persons who have
not declared their intention to become
citizens Of the United states.
3D. Persons who are the owners Of
more than 100 acres of land in the
United states.
(e) Persons under the age VI u
years who are not heads vi families.
except minors who make entry ss heirs,
IN hereinafter mentioned, or who have
served in the Army or Navy for ut
least fourteen days.
% Persons who have acquired title
to OF are claiming under any Of the
agricultural public land laws, through
settlement or entry made since August
80, 1880, any other lands 'Fhich, with
tho lands last applied for, would
amount in the aggregate to more than
$50 acres.
!. A married woman, who has all
Of the other qualifications OF y home.
steader, may make u homestead entry
under one Of tho following conditions:
(a) Where she has been actually
deserted by her husband.
/ ID Whore her husband is incapac.
lated by disease or otharwise from
a-arniny n sunna., fo, his family and
th, wife In really IN. head and main
support Of the family.
lel WHARF IN. hn.hand 4. A
In N -panitantiary and Ain. Il. a~.tuaIlv
,b. had os tho FAMILY
ld) Who're the married woman Is
the hair of n ssttl.r or contestant, who
dies befor. making entry.
(e) Who're . married woman made
improvements and resided Oh the lands
applied for before her marriage, she
may enter them after marriage IL her
husband is not holding other lands M.
dor an unprotected homestead entry
Mt the time she applies to make entry.
a married woman can not make en-
Try undei any VI these conditions unless
the laws oi the otate where the lands
applied Tor ar" situated give her the
right To acquire and hold title To lands
as u femme solo.
8. IL an entrymAn deserts his wife
and abandons the land covered by his
entry, his wife then has the exclusive
right to contest the entry II she has
continued to reside on the land and on
securing its eanceliation she may en-
ter the lane IN her " right, or she
may continue her residenes aud make
proof in tho name OF and as the agent
for her husband, aud patent will issue
TO him.
8. II an entryman deserts his minor
children and abandons his entry after
the death Of his wife. tho children have
the same rights the wife could have
exercised had she been deserted dur
ing her lifetime.
10. II a husband and wife are each
holding m original entry or a second
entry at the same time, they must re.
hlauiah Que Of the -eptriss, unless ,ne
Of them holds nm entry m the heir of
a former e.tr,man or settler. In cases
where they can not hold both entries,
they may elect which one they will re-.
tain and relinquish the other.
Al. The unmarried widows Of sol
diers and sailors who were honorably
discharged after ninety days' actual
service during the war Of the rebellion,
or the Sp.uish, American war. or philip.
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