The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1911-07-13


under this opening, the same course
may be pursued, except that the fl
ing fees must be paid within the fiji
teen days following date of selection,
the party having six months after fill.
ing within which to complete entry
Soldiers or sailors or their widows or
minor orphan children, making home
stead entry of these lands must make
payments of fees and commissions and
purchase money as is required of 9TH
err entrymen. All persons making
homestead entry of these lands must
pay the roaming four-fifths of the pur-
chase money in five equal Install
ments. These payments will become
due at the end Of two three, four, five
and six years after the date of entry,
unless the entry is committed, If com.
mutation proof is made, all the unpaid
lnstallments must be paid at that
time. If any entryman fails to make
any payment when it becomes due, all
his former payments will be forfeited
and his entry will be cancelled.
All entries must, as far as possible
embrace only lands listed and al.
praised as one tract, and no applican,
Will be permitted to omit any unen-
tered part of listed tract from his
application and include therein, in lien
OF the omitted tract, part of another
or different listed tract; but where :,
nsted tract embraces less than = omar.
Ter section 1t and part of anothe,
ana different listed tract NAV he or,-
oraced in the same entry In cases
where an applicant desires to enter
less than a quarter section bo NAV,
Apply ior any legal subdivision y,
SUBDIVISIONS, of listed tract. and
"here part Of listed tract b,s hoon
entered the remaining part and mart
~ a'otner adjacent listed tract NAV
De embraced in the same entrv
IT, II any person who has been ,s
signed number emitting him to mako
enery fails to appear and make his
seleltlon when the number assigned
MIN is reached and his name is called
MS right to select viii be passed un-
I'll after all other applicants assign
ed for that day have been disposed
OF, when he will be afforded another
opportunity to make his selection on
that day. If any person fails to make
his selection on the date assigned him
for that purpose or if, having made
selection fails to perfect it by making
entry or filing and payments as above
provided, he will be deemed to have
abandoned his right to make entry
prior to Oct. l, 1912, but will not
thereby exhaust his homestead rights
Is If any person holding number
dies before the date on which he il
required to make entry, his widow.
or any of his heirs, may appear and
make a selection, in her or his own
individual right, under his number o.
that date and thereafter make entry
within fifteen days
49, Proof required at time of filing.
At the time of appearing to make
entry, each applicant must, by aft
davit show his qualification" to make
a homestead entry If an applicant
files a soldiers declaratory stateme nt,
either in person or by agent. he must
furnish evidence of military service
and honorable discharge All foreign
born persons must furnish either the
original or proper certified copies of
their declaration of intention to be-
come citizens or the the original or
proper certified copies of the order Ct
the court admitting them to full cit
izenship. If persons who were not
born in the United States claim citi-
zenship through their fathers natur-
alization while they we're under 81
years OF age, they must furnish a
proper form Of copy Of the order Of
the court admitting their fathers to
fuu1lu citizenship and evidence Of their
minority at that time.
II. Applicants will not be required
to swear that they have seen or ex-
amined the land, before making appli-
cation to enter, and the usual non
mineral and non-saline afndavits will
not be resuired with applications to
enter made prior to Oct. 1, 1912, but
evidence Of the non-mineral and nom
saline character OF the lands entered
before that date must be furnished by
the entrymen before their final proofs
are accepted.
~. Proceedings on contests ana re-
iected applications. When the reg
lister and receiver Of the land ONCE
at which these lands WIN become sub