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

Applications for leaves of abseEct
should be addressed to the register
and receiver of the land office wher.
the entry was made and should be
i sworn to by applicant and some 9th.
er disinterested person before such
I register and receiver or before some
officer in the land district useing 9
seal and authorized to administer
oaths, except in cases where
through sickness, or extreme power.
ty, the entryman Is unable to visit
the district for that purpose, When
the oath may be made outside OF
the land district. ALI applications OF
this kind should clearly set forth
(al 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 i'm
provements made by the applicant
CD The kind of crops which
failed or were destroyed and the
cause and extent of such failure or
destruction.
Co The kind and extent of the
/ sickness, disease, or injury assigned,
and the extent to which the entry
man was prevented fror, continuing
his residence upon the land, and, If
practicable, certificate signedby a
reliable physician as to such sick
ness, disease, or injury, should be
furnished.
(d) The character, cause, and
extent of any unavoidable casualty
which may be made the basis of the
application.
(e) The dates from which and
to which the leave of absence is re-
quested.
Communication of Homestead Entries.
81. All original, second, aud adj
ditional homestead, and adjoining
farm entries may be committed, ex-
cept such entries as are made under
particular laws which forbid their
Communication.
Where there has been immediate
ly prior to the application to submit
proof on homestead entry at least
fourteen months actual and substan-
sally continuous residence, accom-
panied by improvement and Guilt
walton, the entryman, or his widow,
heirs, or devisees, may obtain pat
ent by proving such residence, i'm
proyement, and cultivation, and pay
ing the cost of such proof, the land
office fees, and the price of the land,
which is SIPS per acre outside the
limits of railroad grants, and $3.50
per acre for lands within the grant
ed limits, except as to certain lands
which we're opened under statutes
requiring payment of price differ
ent from that here mentioned. (See
circular of October 18, 1907, Gap
pendix No. 14.)
4 Is
made on homestead entries allowed
under the act of April %, 1904,
(33 Stat, 547) known as the Kin
kaid act; entries under the Recla-
nation Act of June IL, 1902 (32
Stat, 1881; entries under the en-
i larged homestead act (post par. 46
ct seq); entries allowed for coal
lands under the act of June o.
1910 (36 Stat, $3.50. so long as the
land is withdrawn or classified as
coal; additional entries allowed
under the act of April %, 1904 (33
Stat, 527, Appendix No. ~; second
entries allowed under the act OF
June s, 1900. (31 Stat, 267, Ap-
pendix No. 81; or second entries al.
lowed under the act of May o.
1902 (32 Stat, 2o3, Appendix No
50, when the former entry was com.
muted.
Homestead Final and Communication
Proof.
I
proof may be made at any time
when it can be shown that residence
and cultivation have been maintain,
ed in good faith for the required
length of time, but If final proof II
not made within seven years from
the date of homestead entry the
entry will be Cancelled unless some
! good excuse for the failure to make
proof within the seven years is Civ
en- with satisfactory final proof a.
to the required residence and cult
walton made after the expiration o.
the seven years.
4 80. BY whom proof may be Of
fered.-Final proof must be mad,
by the entrymen themselves. or b!
their widows, heirs, or devisees, ant
can not be made by their agents, at
t0~ L. 10 t. ,k-