The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-07
ISOLATED TRACTS
Following is the Law and the
General Land Office Aspect of
the Disposal of Isolated Tracts.

1OF tue commissioner OF the Jen-
eral Land Office to order into
market and sell at public auction,
at the land Office of the district
in which the land is situated, for
not less than one dollar and
twenty five cents an acre, any
isolated or disconnected tract or
parcel of the public domain not
exceeding one-quarter section
which, in his judgment, it would
be proper to expose for sale after
at least thirty days notice by
the land officers of the district
in which such land may be stu
ated: Provided, That any legal
subdivisions of the public land,
not exceeding one-quarter Sec
ton, the greater part of which is
mountainous or too rough for
cultivation, may, in the discretion
of said Commissioner, be ordered
into the market and sold pursuant
to this act upon the application
of any person who owns lands or
holds a valid entry of lands ad.
| joining such tract, regardless of
| the fact that such tract may not
be isolated, or disconnected with.
in the meaning of this act: Pro-
vided further, That this act shall
not defeat any vested right which
has already attached under any
pending entry or location.
| Approved, March %. 1912"
The material change is found
in the first proviso, authorizing
the sale of legal subdivisions not
exceeding one-quarter section,
the greater part of which is
mountainous or too rough for
cultivation, upon the application
of any person who owns or holds
a valid entry of lands adjoining
such tract, and regardless of the
fact that such tract may not be
actually isolated by the entry or
other disposition of surrounding
lands. 1t is left entirely to the
discretion of the Commissioner
of the General Land Office to de-
| termine whether a tract shall be
sold, and it will not be practica-
BILE to prescribe a set of rules
governing the conditions which
would render a tract susceptible
| to sale under the proviso. APP
plications will be disposed of by
you in accordance with the iso-
lated tract regulations contained
in circulars of January 19, 1912,
No. II (generaD and No. 72
(Kinkaid territory in Nebraska),
except that paragraph z of Cir
cular No II and paragraph 22 of
Circular No. II are not applica-
bic, and no tract within the ter
ritory affected by the kinkaid
Act in Nebraska, exceeding l6O
acres in area, will be ordered in
to the market under the first
proviso to section 2455. Appli-
cations may be made upon the
forms provided (4-0O8 B and A.
COS c. and printed in the circulars
above named, properly modified
as necessitated by the terms of
the proviso. In addition, the ap-
plicant must furnish evidence
of his ownership of adjoining
land, or that he holds a valid
entry embracing adjoining land,
in connection with which entry
he has fully met the requirements
of law; also detailed evidence as
to the character of the land ap
Piled for, the extend to which it
is cultivable, and the conditions
which render the greater portion
unfit for cultivation; also a des-
cription of any and all lands
Heretofore applied for under the
proviso or purchased under Sec
ton 2455 or the amendments
thereto. This evidence must
consist Of an affidavit by the