The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-09-09

W lluuCe the eHteGIuS Vi all JHe lduuS
desirable for entry. and if any person
who receives such a notice either 40
titles the superintendent that he does
not intend to make entry, or fails to
make entry or the day assigned him
for that purpose, the person holding
the lowest number to whom no date
for entry has been assigned will be at
once notified hat he will be permitted
to make entry or a date named in
such notice, after all persons holding
numbers lower than his have had OPP
p%ortunity to make entry.
Is. Time and method of making en-
tries and filings.-Persons who re-
ceive notice of their right to make en-
try must file or present their applica-
tons to enter 1T the land office for
the land district in which the lands
they desire are located, as follows:
The applications of persons holding
numbers from l to 80 inclusive must
be presented when their names are
called on April l, 1910; the applica-
tons of persons holding numbers from
81 to 100 inclusive must be present
ed when their mi are called on
April 4, 1910; the application of per-
sons holding numbers 100 to 200, in
elusive, must be presented when
their names are called on April
), 1910, and so on at the rate of
one hundred on each succeeding day,
Sundays and legal holidays excepted,
until the persons holding the first one
thousand numbers have been given OPP
p%ortunity to present their applications
and after that the applications of per-
sons holding numbers above II thou
sand may be similarly presented at
the rate of one hundred and fifty
daily. All entries must, as far as pos
sible, embrace only lands listed and
appraised as n tract, and no appli-
cant will be permitted to omit any
unentered part of the listed land from
his application and include therein in
lieu of the omitted tract, a part of
another or different listed tract; but
where a listed tract embraces less than
a quarter section it and a part Of an
other listed tract may be embraced in
the same entry. In cases where an
applicant desires to enter less than a
quarter section, he may apply for an
a listed tract, and where a part of a
listed tract has been entered the re-
naming part and a part of another
adjacent listed tract may be embraced
in the same entry.
IA. If any person who has been as
signed a number emitting him to
make entry fails to appear and pre-
sent his application when the number
assigned him is reached and his name
is called, his right to enter will be
passed until after all other applicants
assigned for that day have been dis
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another opportunity to make entry on
that day, failing in which he will be
deemed to have abandoned his right
to make entry prior to September /,
1910.
Is. If any person holding a number
dies before the date on which he is
required to make entry. his widow
or any one of his heirs, may appear
and make entry, in their own indi-
vidual right, under his number on that
date, but not thereafter.
16. Proof required at time Of filing.
AT the time of appearing to make
entry, each applicant must, by aft
davit, show his qualifications to make
a homestead entry. If an applicant
filed on a soldiers declaratory state
ment, either in person or by agent, he
must furnish evidence Of military SER
vice and honorable discharge. All for
eign born persons must furnish either
the original copies of their declara-
ton of intention to become citizens or
copies of the order of the court admit
ting them to- full citizenship. If per-
who were not born in the United
States claim citizenship through their
fathers naturalization while they
were under twenty-one years Of age,
they must furnish a copy of the order
of the court admitting their father
to full citizenship.
II. Applicants will not be required
to swear that they have seen or exam
ined the land. before making applica-
ton to enter, and the usual non-min-
eral and non-saline affidavits will not
be required with applications to enter
made prior to September /, 1910, but
evidence of the non-mineral and non
saline character of the lands entered
before that date must be furnished by
the entrymen before the final proofs