Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-09-28

Applications for registration will
be furnished each applicant by the
notary before whom he appears,
Applicants should carefully examine
their applications after they are
sworn to and see that their names,
postoffice addresses and street num-
bers are plainly and carefully writ
ten into the application and that it
bears the proper date and has the sig
nature and seal of the notary attach
ed. No payment will be required for
the privilege of registering, but fee
of twenty-five. cents must be paid to
the notary for each oath administered.
4. Who may register.-All persons
who are qualified to make entry un-
der the general provisions of the
homestead laws may register.
(a) A married woman who has not
been deserted or abandoned by her
husband, cannot register but If
husband is incapacitated by disease
or otherwise from earning a support
for his family, and his wife is the
head of the family and its main sup
port, she can register and make entry
in her own right. A deserted wife
may register.
(b) One who IS not citizen Of the
United States, and has not declared
his intentions to become such citi-
zen, cannot register. Persons who
were formerly citizens of the United
States but who have become citizens
of some other country, must declare
their Intentions to become citizens of
the United States before they can
register or make entry.
(c) Minors cannot register, except
twenty-one years old before they are
required to make entry next spring,
or where they are the head of a
family, and it's main support. Minor
orphan children Of soldiers may reg.
lister.
(d) A person cannot register who
Is the proprietor Of moro than one
hundred and sixty acres Of land in
the United States, regardless OF
whether he obtained title to his land
from the government or otherwise.
Ownership Of land in Canada or else
where outside of the United States,
does not disqualify one from regis
tering. One who is the owner OF q
town lot or any other amount Of land
in excess Of $50 acres, cannot regis.
ter, and one who holds an enforce
able contract of purchase, or bond
for a deed to lands, or who claims
ownership of lands under q registers
final certificate issued on final proof
under an entry of any kind made by
him is considered the owner Of the
land embraced in the contract, bond
or certificate for the purpose of de-
termining his right to register.
(e) A person cannot register who
has acquired title to or is claiming
under any Of the non-mineral public
land laws, through settlement or en-
try made since August 80, IS 0, any
other lands which, with the lands
applied for, would in the aggregate
amount to more than three hundred
and twenty acres.
No person can register who has
previously made a homestead entry
except as follows, when he is other
wise qualified.
(f) One who committed home
stead entry prior to June s, 1900, and
has not since that date made another
entry may register and make entry,
but he cannot commute the entry so
made. Persons committing since
that date cannot register.
(g) A person may register who
prior to May II, 1900, paid for lands
in former Indian reservation, to
which he would have been after