Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-07-15
how TO REGISTER
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selections and filings may. after re-
ceiving such notices, obtain maps
showing the lands subject to entry, by
sending or presenting their notices
or otherwise identifying themselves
at any land ONCE at which they are
! notified to make their filings Other
| persons may obtain this map by send.
ing twenty-five cents postoffice money
order to the Receiver at the proper
land office. Checks and drafts will
not be received.
How Applicants May Select Their
Lands.
Commissioners appointed by the
! president have classified and apprais-
ed each quarter section 160, acre
tract), separately and applicants will
be required to enter them as listed as
| far as possible. No applicant will be
permitted to enter a part of listed
tract and omit from his entry another
part of the same tract and include
| therein a part of different tract. but
| in cases where a listed tract embraces
less than quarter section, it, and
part of an adjacent listed tract, may
be embraced in the same filing. In
cases where an applicant desires to
/ make either an original or a second
entry for less than 100 acres he may
enter part of listed quarter Sec
ton and where a part OF a quarter
section has been entered the remain
ing part may be embraced in the entry
with an adjacent part Of any other
listed tract. No homestead entry of
these lands can embrace more than
approximately $50 acres.
Persons to whom numbers are as.
signed may 60 upon the reservation at
any time to inspect the lands and to
make their selections, or they may,
with reasonable safety, make their Sc.
lections from large map in the land
office at the time they appear for that
purpose. This map and accompany
ing lists which the applicants may OBJ
tain at the land Office free of cast, will
show the appraised value of each list
ed quarter section and it's classified
ton. This classification was made by
three sworn commissioners appointed
by the president after they had per-
sonally inspected and examined the
lands. Persons who 60 upon the
lands prior to the dates mentioned in
their notices for the purpose of max
ing examinations should take with
them their notice that number has
been assigned to them or any notice
they may receive from me and exhibit
it as their authority for being on the
reservation.
If applicants employ locating agents
to select lands for them, they should
first be sure that the persons they EN-.
ploy have ample and intimate knowl- |
edge of the lands. and they should
also require their agents to furnish
sworn statements as to the approx
mate kind, quality and topography of
the lands selected by them. Blank
forms of statements of this kind
can be obtained free of cost at the
land offices at which entries for these
lands will be made. !
Residence and Cultivation Required
Patent may be obtained to these
lands after proving IA months actual
and continual residence, cultivation !
and improvements, and the payment of
proof fees and all unpaid installments
OF the appraised value of the land,
or by proving five years actual resi-
dence and cultivation and the payment
annually beginning two years from
date of entry for the second payment)
of all installments of the appraised
value, and the proof fees and not more
than $500 as commissions. Actual
residence on the land must begin by
all persons, whether soldiers or other
wise, within six months from the date
OF their filings, to the exclusion of a
home elsewhere, and it must be con-
tinued until a patent has been earned
Soldiers or sailors Cor their widows or
minor orphan children) must reside
upon and cultivate the land for at
least one year, after which they may
claim credit for the period of their
military service on the five years resi-
dence required by the law, but it can
not be claimed on the fourteen months
residence required in communication
proof They are entitled to claim
credit for the time which the soldiers
or sailors served under their enlist.
ments during one of the wars hereto
fore mentioned, provided they served
at least ninety days during the war
and were honorably discharged. If
there We're four years military service
but one years residence will be re-
quired, if three years military service,
then two years residence will be re-
quired, and so on, but there must be
one years actual residence. as credit
cannot be claimed for more than four
years military service
20. Neither age or bodily infirmity
will excuse either soldier, widow,
minor or any one else from residing
on the land for the period required by
the law, and the residence required of
an unmarried entryman is the same
as that required of an entryman who
has family.
"a. Leaves of absence for not more
than one year will be granted in cases
where an entryman is prevented by