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

sailor is entitled to credit on thu
remainder of the five-year period
for the term of his actual naval o.
military service, or If he was dis
charged from the army or navy be
cause of wounds received or disabil
i tiles incurred in the line of duty he
is entitled to credit for the whole
j term of his enlistment No credi,
can be allowed for military ser,re
where Communication proof is offered
20. A soldier or sailor making en-.
4 try during his enlistment in time OF
peace is not required to reside per-
sonally on the land, but may receive
patent if his family maintains the
necessary residence and cultivation
until the entry is five years old or
until it has been committed; but a
soldier or sailor is not entitled to
credit on account of his military
service in time Of peace. And if such
soldier has no family. there is no
way by which he can make entry
and acquire title during his enlist
ment in time of peace.
NEW SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL
80. Widows and minor orphan
children of soldiers and sailors who
make entry as such widows and
children must begin their residence
and cultivation of the lands enter
ed by them within six months from
the dates of their entries, or the
filing of declaratory statement, and
thereafter continue both residence
and cultivation for such period as
will, when added to the time of
their husbands or fathers military
or naval service, amount to five
years from the date of the entry,
and If the husbands or fathers eth
er died in the service or were dis
charged on account of wounds or
disabilities incurred in the line of
duty, credit for the whole term OF
their enlistment, not to exceed four
years, may be taken, but no patent
will issue to such widow or children
until there has been residence and
cultivation by them for at least one
year. No credit can be allowed for
military service where Communication
proof is offered.
81. Persons who make proof OF
entry as heirs of settlers are not re-
CURED to both live on and cultivate
the land enterede by them, but they
must, within six months from the
dates of their entries, begin anG
thereafter continuously maintain
either their residence or cultivation
on the land entered by them fol
such a period of time as, added to
the time during which the settler
resided on and cultivated the land,
will make five years, unless theil
entries be sooner committed. Com
mutation proof can not, however be
made unless at least furteen months
actual residence is shown, performed
either by the settler or the heirs or
in part by the settler and in part
by the heirs.
80. The widow, heirs or devisees
of homestead entryman who dies
before he earns patent are not re-
quired to both reside upon and Gull
tivate the lands covered by his en-
try, but they must, within months
after the death Of the entryman, be-
gin either residence or cultivation OF
the land covered by the entry ano
thereafter continuously maintain
either residence or cultivation for
such a period of time as will, when
added to the time during which the
entryman complied with the law,
amount in the aggregate to the re-
CURED five years, unless they sooner
commute the entry. But commute
ton proof cannot be made unless
fourteen months actual residence
can be shown. performed by the en-
tryman or widow, heirs, devisees, OF
in part by the entryman and in part
by the widow, heirs, or devisees.
3S. Homestead entrymen who
have been elected to either feder.
al state, or county office, after they
have made entry and established ar
actual residence on the land covered
by their entries are not required tt
continue such residence during thell
term of office, if the discharge o.
their bona fide official duties ne.e.
'sarily requires them to reside else
where than upon the land; but the,
must continue their cultivation ant
improvements for the required length
of time. Such an office holder can
not commute, however. unless hi
can show an actual residence of a
least fourteen months actual resi-
dence. See circulars of February II
and 20, 100. (Appendix No. 13)
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