The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-05-12

lands originally owned by him IL
neither case can credit be claimed
for residence on the original farm
prior to the date of the adjoinins
,Frm entry.
Y A person who has made an addi
tional entry of the kind mentioned
in paragraph IA for lands adjoining
his original entry is not entitled tt
patent Cor the lands so entered un
til he can show five years residence
either on the origina! or in part or
the original and in part on the add
tional No Communication of the ad
ditional entry is allowed by law IL
the latter case.
35. Neither residence nor cult
walton by an insane homestead en-.
tryman Is necessary after he be-
comes insane, if such entryman made
entry and established residence be.
fore he became insane and complied
with the requirements of the law w
to the time his insanity began.
LEAVES OF ABSENCE.
SO. Leaves Of absence for one
year or less may be granted to en-
trymen who have established actual
residence on the lands entered by
by them in all cases where total or
partial failure or destruction OF
crops, sickness, or other unavoidable
casualty has prevented the entry
man from supporting himself and
those dependent on him by cult
walton of the land.
Application for leaves Of absence
should be addressed to the register
and receiver of the land office where
the entry was made and should be
sworn to by the applicant and some
other disinterested person before
such register and receiver or before
some officer in the land district u.s.
ing seal and authorized to admin
lister Caths, except in cases where,
through age, sickness, or extreme
poverty, the entryman is unable to
visit the district for that purpose
when the oath may be made out
side of the land district. All appli-
cations of this kind should be clear
ly set forth.
(a) The number and date of the
entry, description Of the lands en-
tered, the date of the establishment
of his residence on the land and the
extent and character of the improve.
ments and cultivation made by the
applicant.
(b) The kind of crops which
failed or were destroyed and the
cause and extent of such failure OF
destruction.
(c) The kind and extent of the
sickness, disease, or injury assigned
and the extent to which the entry.
man was prevented from continuing
his residence upon the land, and il
practicable, a certificate signed BY
a reliable physician as to such sick.
ness, disease, or injury, should be
furnished.
(d) The character, cause. and ex.
tent of any unavoidable casualty
which may be made the basis of the
application.
(c) The dates from which and tc
which the leave of absence is re.
quested
COMPUTATION OF HOMESTEAD
ENTRIES.
81. All original, second, and ad.
Joining farm entries may be com.
muted. except such entries as are
made under particular laws which
forbid their Communication.
Where there has been immediate
ly prior to the application to sub
nit proof on a homestead entry al
least fourteen months actual anG
substantial continuous residence, &C
companied by improvement and cul
I1NoS1oA, tAC cuIl vi Ills WluOW
heirs, or devisees, may obtain pat
ent by proving such residence, i'm
provement, cultivation, and paying
the cost of such proof, the land of
flee fees. and the price of the land
which is $1.25 per acre outside the
limits of railroad grants, and s2.5t
per acre for lands within the granted
limits except as certain lands which
were opened under statutes requir
ing payment of price different from
that here mentioned. See circular
of October 10, 1907 (Appendix No
14.)
Communication proof cannot b,
made on homestead entries allowed
under the act of April %, 1904 g:
Stat, 547), known as the Kinkait
] act; entries under the Reclamation
Act of June II, 1902 (32 Stat, s8s,
| entries rnder the on1arped homo