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

wards entitled to receive patent with
out payment under the Free
Homes" act.
(h) A person may register who
for any cause lost, forfeited, or aban-
doned his homestead entry prior to
February 8, 1908, II the former entry
was not cancelled for fraud or re-
linquished for valuable considera.
ton. Where such entryman sold his
REIMBURSEMENT or received pay for
his improvements as an inducement
to him to relinquish, he cannot reg
lister, regardless of the fact that his
improvements may have cost him
more than the amount he received
for them.
ID A person who has made final
proof under his homestead entry for
less than 100 acres may register and
make entry of such an area as will,
when added to the lands EN- braced in
his former entry, not exceed 100
acres.
S. Who may register by agent
Soldiers and sailors who were hon
orably discharged after ninety days.
actual service during the War of the
Rebellion, or during the Spanish
American War, or the Philippine In
surrection (which begun April FL,
1898, and lasted until July Is, 1909
or their widows or minor orphan
children may register either in per-
son by going to any of the reg
istration points, or through an agent
who visits registration point, but
a widow cannot register If she
has remarked and her second hus-
band is still living. A minor child
of a deceased soldier cannot register
either by agent or In person, II his
mother is still living and, unmarried.
but If the mother is either dead, or
remarked and now has husband liv.
ing, he may register, All the minor
orphan children of soldier NAV regis.
ter jointly either through one of the
minors or by their agent or guard
ian, but each of the minors cannot
register separately for himself and in
his own behalf in cases where there
are more than one minor child Of the
same soldier. The registration and
entry must be made in the interest
of all the minors.
Persons who served in the army or
navy in the time Of peace and did not
serve for 80 days during either of the
wars mentioned above. and the chill
dren of soldiers who are over TWEEN
ty-one years of age cannot register
by, agent but must 90 to one Of the
registration points for that purpose.
6. Appointment Of agents.-All
agents should be appointed on blank
powers Of attorney on one side Of
heavy weight paper of light yellow or
canary color cut exactly three and
one-quarter inches wide and five and
one-half inches long and the agents
affidavit must be printed on the other
side of the paper. The agents name
must be written into the power Of at
torney before it Is sworn to by the
soldier. Soldiers, sailors. widows
and minors or their guardians may
swear to their powers Of attorney be-
fore any notary public OF, other off,
Ger, having seal at any place within
the United States, or elsewhere, but
the agents AFFIDAVIT must be sworn
to before a designated notary public
at one Of the registration points
named above. 1t is not necessary
that the notaries or other officers
should be designated before whom
soldiers, sailors, widows, minors, or
guardians swear to their powers of
attorney and no officers will be des-
ignated for that purpose. Blank
powers Of attorney can be obtained
from the Commercial Club, of Bis
marck, N. d.. by soldiers, sailors,