Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-07-16
IsoLATED TRACTS or LAND.
New Ruling Affecting their Sale - Each
Body Of Land Must be Offered
Separately.

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Separately.
Department of the Interior,
General Land Office.
Washington, D. c., June s, 1910.
Registers and Receivers, United State
Land Offices:
sirs: The sale of isolated tracts o
public lands outside of the area in th'
State of Nebraska described in the Ac
OF March 2, 1907, "a Stats, 1924, il
authorized by the provisions of the Ac
Of June 27, 1905 ga Stats, 5l7), amend
ing section PASS Of the Revised Statutes
/. Applications to have isolated tract
ordered into market must be filed with
the register and receiver Of the lanc
Office in the district wherein the landi
are situated.
2. Applicants must show by theiI
affidavits, corroborated by at least two
witnesses, that the land contains nc
salines, coal, or other minerals; the
amount, kind and value of timber oil
stone thereon, if any; whether the land
is occupied, and if 80 the nature Of the
occupancy; for what purpose the land
is chiefly valuable; why it is desired
that same be sold; that applicant de-
sires to purchase the land for his own
individual use and actual occupation
and not for speculative purposes, and
that he has not heretofore purchased
under section PASS, Revised Statutes, or
the amendments thereto, isolated tracts
the area of which, when added to the
area now applied for, will exceed ap'
proximately 100 acres; and that he is q
citizen of the United States, or has de-
clared his intention to become such. II
applicant has heretofore purchased
lands under the provisions of the acts
relating to isolated tracts, same must be
described in the application by sub-di'
vision, section, township and range.
8. The afidavits of applicants to
have isolated tracts ordered into market,
and of their corroborating witnesses,
may be executed before any officer hav.
ing a seal and authorized to administer
oaths in the county or land district in
which the lands described in the sppli-
cations are situated.
4. The officer before whom such affi-
davits are executed will cause each ap.
plicant and witnesses to fully answer
the questions contained upon the accom-.
panying form and, after the answers to
the questions therein contained have
been reduced to writing, to sign and
swear to same before him.
s. No sale will be authorized upon
the application Of a person who has pur'
chased under section 2455, Revised Stat
utes, or the amendments thereto, any
lands, the area of which, when added
to the area applied for, shall exceed ap'
proximately 100 acres.
6. No sale will be authorized for more
than approximately 100 acres embraced
in one application.
7. The local officers will on receipt Of
applications note same upon the tract
books of their office, and If the applica
cations are not properly executed, oil
not corroborated, they will reject same
subject to the right of appeal. Applica
tions found to be properly executed will
be transmitted to the General Land
Office with the monthly returns, accom-
panied in each case with report as tc
the status of the land, and the exist
ence of any objection to the Offering o.
the lands for sale.
s. An application for sale under these
instructions will not segregate the land
from entry or other disposal, for such
lands may be entered at any time prior
to the receipt in the local land office o.
the letter authorizing the sale. Upor
the receipt of such letter, the local off.
GERS will note thereon the time when il
was received, and at once examine tn,
records to see whether the lands, or any
part thereof, have been entered. They
will note on the tract book, opposite
such lands as are found to be clear, tha
sale has been authorized, giving the dat'
of the letter. Such lands will then b,
considered segregated for the purpose o
sale.
If the examination of the rscord
show that all the lands have been en-
tered, the local officers will promulgat'
the letter authorizing the sale, but viii
report the facts to this Office, whereupor
the letter authorizing the sale will b,
revoked. If part OF the land has beer
entered they will report such tracts t.
this Office and proceed as provided be
low a. to the remainder.
The local officers will prepare motto,
for publication on the form hereinafte
given, describing the land found to b.
unentersd, and fixing a date for tn
sale, which date must be far enough il
advance to afford ample time for publ
cation of the notice, and for the affidavit
of the publisher to be filed in the loca
land Office prior to the date of the sale
The register will also designate news
paper as published nearest 10 the Lam
described In the notice. The notice vii
be sent to the applicant with instruc
tons that he must publish the same q
his expense in the newspaper designate
by the register. Payment for publics
ton is transmitted to the receiver, h
must issue receipt therefor, and imms
diately return the money to the appl
cant by his official check, with instru,
tions to arrange for the publication {
the notice hereinbsfore provided.
If on the day set for the sale the aff