Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1917-02-15
LATE INSTRUCTIONS
FOR THE new
LAND ACT
MADE BY ENTRYMEN UNDER
64O-ACRE LAW.
FOR PERfECTINC ENTRY
Lewiston office Advised as to New
Forms Where Originals Do
Not Meet Requirements.

The Lewiston U. s. land office re-
ceived supplemental instructions from
Clay Tallman, commissioner of the gen.
eral land office, relative to the form
of applications for entry under the new
640-acre stock raiser's homestead act.
The instructions now received aim to
perfect applications that may have been
enormously made at the time the law
became operative, due to the fact that
definite, approved forms were not then
available.
The communication received by the
Lewiston office is in the form of a cir
cular, issued under date of January 81,
and is as follows:
because of the fact that the ap-
proved forms have not heretofore been
available, applications filed under the
act of December 30, 1916, are doubtless
imperfect. Unless applications hereto
| fore or hereafter filed contain SUBJ
stantially the allegations prescribed in
them, subject to the right, for thirty
days from notice, to make proper
amendment or to appeal
| GIN cases where such applications
are executed ON the forms prescribed
|
homestead law, they can be amended
by filing the following:
| "'I hereby consent to the amend
ment of my application to make home
stead entry for (here describe land) by
the insertion therein of the following:
Application made subject to the reser
walton to the United States of all Goa
and other minerals in the land, to
-,
mine, and remove the same as provided
by the act of December 30, 1916. l de
solemnly swear that the land applied
for does not contain any water hole OF
other body of water needed or used by
the public for watering purposes, anC
that the land is chiefly valuable fol
grazing and raising forage crops.
"The affidavit must be executed be
fore an officer authorized to admins
ter oaths in public land cases, and mus
be corroborated by the affidavits of tive
witnesses, similarly executed. The pre-
ferable methods of amending an imper
feet application is by the execution of ,
new application on an approved form
If this is done care should be exercised
to plainly mark the reexecuted applica
tion Supplemental. However, circula
No. 523 requires applicants in certain
cases to supplement their application
by additional affidavits. Nothing here
in contained is intended to in any wa,
modify those requirements.
"Should an imperfect application
show that applicant is not qualified t.
make the entry applied for, you will
disregard the defects and reject tn
application, subject to the usual RICH
of appeal.
doubtless many petitions for des
ignation have been filed which fail Il
make the showing required by the regu
lations set forth in circular No. 523
You will, therefore, forward to sucl
petitioners by ordinary mail (unless yo'
. are making other requirements by reg
istered maiD copy hereof, togethe
with copy of said circular No. 523
which will thus constitute notice tina
the petition heretofore filed will not b
forwarded to this office until the ex
piration of 80 days from the mailing o
the circulars, during which time he vii
, be allowed to file an amendment peti
, ton, making the showing required b.
the regulations. You WILL after tn
. lapse of thirty days from the mailing o
the circulars, if no response is receive
; provided the application to make Ell
try is in all respects regular, forwar
. : the original petition.