Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1914-10-16
OF INTEREST
TO LANDSEEK[RS
new HOMESTEAD BILL PASSED
September 5Th
ALLOWS SECOND filing
PERSONS ARE ALLOWED SECOND
HOMESTEAD UNDER new LAW
RECENTLY PASSED.

RECENTLY PASSED.
Department of the Interior, General
Land Office, Washington. September
26, 1914.
Registers and Receivers,
United States Land Offices.
Sirs: Your attention is directed to
the act of Congress, approved Septem.
Der 5, 1914 (Pablic, No. l94), entitled,
IAN act providing for second home.
stead and desert-lsnd entries," copy
of which is hereto expended. Said act
governs the disposition of every ap
plioation for second homestead or
desert.land entry, where the up.
plant, at any time before filing same.
had made sn entry, or entries, of the
Same character, but failed to perfect
same.
2. The qpestion whether the first
entry, or entries, we're made before or
after the passage of the act is entirely
tmmaterial. Moreover. it will be seen
that the act imposes upon the land de-
'partment the duty of passing upon the
good faith Of the applicant, there being
no hard and fast provision. as in the
act of February B. 1911, limiting it's
benefits to Clearly detiu.d GLASS Of
persons. In order that there may be
uniformity Of rulings thereon, no ap.
plications will be allowed BY the local
officers on their own initiative, but all
will be forwarded to the General Land
Office for consideration.
5 In order that the General Land
Office may properly pass upon the
right Of an applicant for second entry,
he must (besides fling in the proper
local office an application to enter q
specific travt) furnish his affidavit
showing the following facts:
(s) Data from which his flrst entry
(or entries) may be identified, prefer
ably it's series and number, as we'll as .
description Of the tract BY section,
township, and range
(b) What examination Of tAe land
and what inquiries as to its character
he made prior to flling his previous sp-
plication Tor applicstlons) for entry
and, In case OF desert-land entries.
what reason he had to believe that the
required proportion of the tract could
be reclaimed by him through irrigation,
(c) With reference to q homestead
entry, whether he established residence
upon the tract, and, il 60, how long he
lived there and what cultivation he ef-
fected; as to desert.land entry.
whether he took possession of the
tract, and, II 80, how long he continued
to exercise acts Of ownership thereover.
(d) What improvements, il any, he
made upon the land, describing in de-
tail their nature and cost.
(e) The date of his abandonment Of
the claim and the reason therefor and
whether he ever executed relino oish.
ment of the entry.
(f) What consideration, II any, be 70.
ceived for abandoning or relinquishine
the entry; also whether he sold the i'm
provements on the tract. giving full de-
tails ss to said sale, II any, including
the date thereof aud the consideration
received.
4. This affidavit must be executed
before en- officer authorized to admin
lister oaths In homestead cases; that is,
the register or receiver Of the district
whore the land is situated. or q United
States commissioners. or judge or clerk
OF Q court Of record within said district
or within tho county in which the tract
lies Its statements must be corrobor.
atsd on all matters susceptible Of cor.
roboration BY ct least one witness
having knowledge Of the facts, or there
may be several witnesses, each testify
Ing to some material point, a6ldavits
OF witnesses may be executed before
any officer authorized to administer
osths and having an official seal. Ap.
propriate blank forms will be furnished
In the near future.
5. II the affidavit of the claimant be
not properly executed or be not COR
roboratsd BY at least one witnese, or II
both do not appear to bear upon oil the
points above mentioned, you will call
upon the applicant for supplemental
evidence or for re-execution OF the sf.
fadsvit, ~ the case may 30. After ser.
vice Of notice Of your requirements
and tho lapse OF the proper period, you