Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-07-15


those points and not elsewhere.
A blank application will be furnished
to each applicant by the notary before
whom he appears. l will have them
printed and furnish them to all auth
orized notaries free of cost. Each ap.
plicant should carefully examine his
| APPLICATION after it is sworn to and see
thath is name and. postoffice address,
including street and number, or other
! address), are plainly and carefully
written therein and that it bears the
proper date and has the signature and
seal of the notary attached. No pay.
ment will be required for the privil-
eye of registering. but fee of TWEEN
ty-five cents must be paid to the notary
for each oath administered.
Way to Register.
Any person who is qualified to make
! entry under the general provisions of
the homestead laws may register.
TAI A married woman who has not
! been deserted or abandoned by her
husband cannot register; but if the
husband is incapacitated by disease
or otherwise from earning support
!! for his family and his wife is at the
! head of the family and its main sup
port. she can register and make entry
in her own right. A deserted wife
may register.
(h) One who is not citizen of the
! United States and has not declared
his intention to become such citizen
cannot register Persons who were
formerly citizens of the United States.
! but who have become citizens of some
other country must declare their in
tentions to become citizens OF the
United States before they can regis.
ter or make entry.
(c) Minors cannot register except
in cases where they will become Fl
years old before they are required to
make entry next spring, or where they
are the head of a family and its
main support. Minor orphan children
kof former soldiers or sailors may reg
lister as hereafter explained.
(d) A person cannot register who
is the proprietor OF more than $50
acres of land in the United States re-
gardless of whether he obtained title
to his land from the governmentor
otherwise. Ownership or land in Can
ada or elsewhere outside of thet)nit-
; ed States does not disqualify one from
registering. A person owning
town lot or town lots in the United
states in addition to 100 acres ofland
is not, if the area of the lot or lots is
less than one acre. considered to be
the owner of more than 100 acres of
land, and is not debarred from regis
! tering. If the area of the lot or lots
makes him the owner of 161 acres or
more of land in the United States. he
cannot register A person who holds
an enforcible contract of purchase. or
bond or deed to lands, or who claims
ownership of lands under a registers
final certificate issued on final proof
under an entry of any kind made by
him is considered the owner of the
land embraced in the contract bond
or certificate for the purpose of de-
termining his right to register
(e) A person cannot register who
has acquired title to or it claiming un-
der any of the non-mineral public
land laws through settlement or entry
made since August 80. 1890, any other
land which with the land applied for
would in the aggregate amount to
more than 800 acres.
No person can register who has
previously made homestead entry ex-
cept as follows, when he is otherwise
qualified.
(f) One who committed a home
stead entry prior to June 5. 1900. and
not since that date made another en-
try, may register and make entry. but
he can not commute the entry so made.
A person who committed an entry for
$50 acres since that date cannot reg
ister
(g) A person may register who
prior to May II, 1900. paid for lands
in former Indian reservation to
which he would have afterwards been
entitled to receive patent without pay
ment under the Free homes act"
(h) A person may register who
prior to February 3. 1911, made entry
under the homestead laws, but who
subsequent to such entry from cause
lost, forfeited or abandoned the same;
if the former entry was not cancelled
for fraud or relinquished for valu-
able consideration in excess of the
filing fees paid by him on his original
entry. Where such entryman sold
his REIMBURSEMENT for more than the
amount of his filing fees or received
more than that amount for his i'm
provements as an inducement to re.
linqush or abandon his claim. he can
not register regardless of the fact that
his improvements may have cost him
more than the amount he received for
them.
il A person who has made final
proof under his homestead entry for
less than 100 acres may register and
make entry of such area as will when
added to the lands embraced in his
former entry not exceed 100 acres.
Who.Ma Register by AGENT.
Soldiers and sailors who were hon.