The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-10-29
Land Rulings.

Lan0 Rulings.
Superintendent James W. Witten
Tells How to Proceed II You Have
Drawn aChance on Reservation Land
Persons who decide not to make en-
tries or fling after numbers have been
assigned to them should ct once no.
tlfy me at Washington, D. c., of that
fact and thus give some other person
the privilege OF making entry.
How applicants may select their
lands Tho commissioners appointed
by the president will list, classify and
appraise each quarter section sepa-
rately, and applicants will be required
to enter them as listed, as far "a pos
slble. No applicant will be permitted
to omit an ~unentered part OF a listed
tract from his entry and include there
in q part of another and different
listed tract, but in cases where q listed
tract embraces less than . quarter
section it and q part OF any adjacent
listed tract may DO embraced in the
same filing. In cases where an april
can't desires to make either an orig
inal or q second homestead entry for
less than 100 acres, he may enter q
part Of q listed quarter section, and
where q part of q quarter has been en-.
tered the remaining part may be en-.
Draced in an entry with q part of ap
sdj acent listed quarter section.
Persons to whom numbers are rs.
signed may 60 upon the reservation at
any time to inspect lands and make
th0fn onJaNtnrso m thnu vnnu uvIfh
reasonable safety make their selec.
lions from . large map In the land of.
fee at the time they appear TO make
their filings. This map and the map
which will be mailed to applicant vi
show the appraised value Of each list
ed quarter section AMI its classified
ton. This CLASSIFICATION and appraise-
ment will be made by the three sworn
commissioners appointed BY the pres.
ident, after they have personally in
spected and examined each tract, and
their estimate al be safely accepted
% being a. good % that Of any other
person, since they are disinterested
and were selected because of their fit.
nesr for the work.
Payments required-Fees aud com.
missions amounting to not more than
S14. 90 and one-ffth of the appraised
value of each entered tract must be
paid at the date Ut the filing next
spring, and thereafter one-fifth of the
balance Of the appraised value must
be paid annually at the end of one,
two, three, four and i've years after
the date of the entry. If any entrymsn
fails to make any payment when it be-
comes due all his former pay ments
will be forfeited and his entry will be
cancelled. A fee of 81 must be paid
on all d~eclartory statements filed by
soldiers. sailors OF their widows or
minor orphan children, or their guar
disus or agents, but 1T the time entry
10 made by them, and thereafter they
must make the same payment of fees,
commissions, and purchase money
which other entryman are required to
make.
Residence and GUILTY. alton required.
Patents may be obtained either by
proving IA months actual and con.
tlnuous residence. cultivation and
improvements and the payment of
proof fees and oil unpaid install.
ments Of the appraised value Of the
land, or by proving live years. actual
and cultivation and the pay.
ment annually Of all installments OF
the appraised value, and the proof
fees and not more than "a, "a COM.
Actual residence on the
land must begin by oil persons, wheth
soldiers or otherwise, within six
months from the dates of filings, to
tho exclusion of = home elsewhere and
it must be continued until q patent
has been earned. Soldiers, sailors
their widows and minor orphsn chill.
dren must reside on and cultivate the
land for ct least one year, after which
they may claim credit for the period
of the military service on the five
years. residence required by the law,
but It cannot be claimed on the four.
teen mouths residence required in
Communication proof.
II there we're four years. military
service but one years. residence will
30 required, If three years. military
service, then two years. residence will
be required and 90 on, but there must
be d years. actual residence, as
credit cannot be claimed for more
than four years' military service.
Neither age o bodily indrmity
will excuse either . soldier, widow
minor or any one else from residing
on tho land for the period required
BY the law and the residence required
OF On unmarried entryman il the same
as that required of IN entryman who
has . family.
Leaves Of absence for not more than
one year will 90 granted in cases
where an entryman is prevented by
failure of crops, sickness or other
unavoidable casualty from support.
ing himself and those dependent upon
him by cultivating his land. but
leaves Of absence cannot be obtained
for any other than the causes named.
Very respectfully,
JAS. w. WITTEN,
Superintendent.
SUMMONs: STATE Of South Dakota, County
- Grant. In Justice Court, before Al. Bles-
eF, City Justice OF the Peace, Milbank, S. D.
A. MlTrrELsrA EDIT, Plaintiff,