The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-08-14
SUGGESTIONS TO HOME
STEADERS AND PERSONS IN
TENDING TO HOMESTEAD

Of the smallest legal subdivisions de.
sired. When settlement Ii made on un.
surveyed lands, the settler must plain.
ly msrk the boundries Of all the lands
claimed. by him.
Settlement must he made by the set.
tier IN person aud can not he made by
his agent, and each settler must, with.
In n reasonable time after making his
settlement, establish and thereafter
continuously maintain an actual resi-
dence on the land, aud IL he, or his
heirs or dovisees, fail tn do this, or II
he, or his heirs or devisees, fail to
make entry within three months from
the time he first settled ON surveyed
lands, or within three months from the
filing in the local land Office Of the plat
Of the survey of unsuryeyed lanIs N
which he made settlement, the exclu.
siye right of making entry OF the lands
settled on will be lost and the lands
will become subject ~ entry by the
hInt Iuhiiheu hpplChht'
8. Soldier 3 and Sailor declaratory
statements may be hled In the land Of.
fee for the district In which the lands
desired are located by any persons who
have been honorably discharged after
ninety days service In the Army or
Navy Of the United States during the
wal Of the rebellion or during the
Spanish American war or the Philip.
pine insurrection. Declaratory state
ments Of this character may be filed
either by soldier or sailor in person or
through his agent acting under n pro.
per power Of attorney, but the soldier
or sailor must make entry Of the land
in person, and not through his agent,
within six months from the cling Of
his declaratory statement, or he may
make entry in person without hrst a.
ing a declaratory statement II he so
chooses. The application to enter may
be presented to the land Office through
the mails or otherwise, but the declara.
tory statement must be presented ut
the land Office In person, either by the
soldier or sailor, or by his agent, and
can not be sent through the mails.
BY Whom Homestead Entries May Be
Made.
0. Homestead entries may be made
for u quarter section or less by any
person who does not come within either
Of che following classes;
(a) Married women, except IA here
matter stated.
% Persons who have already mad,
homestead entry, except as hereinafter
stated.
q Foreign born persons who have
not declared their intention 10 become
citizens of the United States.
Id Persons who are the owners o.
more than lGO acres Of land In thu
United States.
(e) Persons under the age Of 2
years who are not heads Of families
except minors who make entry as heirs
as hereinafter mentioned, or who hav'
served in the Army Or Navy for u
least fourteen days.
(f) Persons who have acquired It'll
to or are claiming under any Of til,
agricultural public land laws, througI
settlement or entry made since Angus
80, 1890, any other lands which, wit
the lands last applied for, woul
amount in the aggregate to more tina
$50 acres.
7. A married woman, who has a
Of the other qualifications Of n home
steader, may make n homestead entr,
under one Of the following conditions
(a) Where she has been actual
deserted by her husband.
CD Where her husband is incapaC
lated by disease or otherwise froI
earning a support for his family an
the wife Is really the head and mai
support OF the family.
(c) Where the husband Ii conhne
in u penitentiary and she IL actual
the head Of the family.
(d) Where the married woman
the heir Of n settler or contestant VIII
dies before making entry.
(e) Where a married woman mad
improvements and resided on the LAND
applied for before her marriage, al
may enter them after marriage II hi
husband is MOI holding other lands u
der an unprotected homestead entr
at the time she applies to make entr.
J A married woman can not make 81