| Show preemptions PREEMPT IONS lons AND homesteads THERE is considerable interest being felt feit just new now about the land question as by the recent acts of congress all the land lana laws including the ibe homestead preemption pre emption and town site flite acts have been extended to this territory many of our citizens are desirous to know what steps they should take toe too to secure their titles to their lands they are in possession of farms and ot herlands upon which they have made valuable improvements prove ments and now that there is an opportunity likely to be given soon for purchase they very naturally want to know what steps they should take in the premises we have conversed on this subject with lewis S esai esq who has been appointed land receiver receiver for this territory and have obtained information in which in many any of our readers will feel interested the preemption law provides that a any ny citizen of the united states or any person who has declared his intentions to become a citizen being the fhe head of a family over 21 years of age or a widow can enter upon any unoccupied lands of the united stales stages and claim from 40 to igo acres by making a settlement r and improvement thereon whatever the amount of land entered may be it must all be in one body and must be entered according to the tha legal sub divi the settlement may consist of any kind of labor done on the land that will show an improvement aa as a fence the foundation of a house or even plowing these improvements must be made in the presence of witnesses as upon entering the land at the district land office proof of tion or occupancy must be made after a citizen has made the improvements necessary to make the entry of his land legal he must proceed within a reasonable able abie time t to make further improvements including a dwelling in boutee oue ou e by a recent decision it is not requisite to build a dwelling house after tho the filing ot the intentions at the land office if there is oil one e already on the lan ian land d at the time timo bof entry it will answer this will simplify the proceeding for our citizens as a very little new improvement will enable them to enter their land and the buildings already erected by them them will answer the purpose required by the law preemptions Preempt ions made now will hold good after the survey by eon enn conforming forming to the lines of the survey as afterwards made the declaration of an intention to occupy lands has to be filed in the district land office within 90 days after the opening of the office after the land is entered the president of the united states will fix a dayt day by proclamation for the sale of the lands the proof ol 01 settlement cultivation cultivate on or occupancy must be made and the tho land entered previous to this day of sale the first step necessary for persons now occupying lands to take is to make some improve menton their landais the presence of bitne witnesses ses so that they will be able to prove an improvement made and then make another improvement in the he same way after the lines of the old survey are retraced in case they should be by the now surveyor general mr clark dark the surveyor general of the territory has not yet arrived in the telegraphic dispatches aa about out ten days ago we noticed that commissioner wilson had bad issued instructions to him directing him to proceed to denver and obtain possession of the original evidence of the survey in this territory now in the custody of the surveyor general at deliver denver and than then repair to this city where he has been directed to establish his office mee it is altogether that he hol will find it nece necea kajy saly i ry to t 0 retrace the survey which was made adb here in former years in fact from all ali al that is known respecting the former folmer survey it is our opinion that he will find it necessary to make at least in many places an entirely new now survey it is not probable that mr oark dark can open the land office here any earlier than sixty or ninety days from this date the town site act wo have already written upon at considerable length in previous h numbers umbers of this paper it is not necessary therefore that we should a again gal gai n allude to it in this connection if the preemption pre emption is not commuted into a homestead persons entering land must do so by the payment of money or a land warrant the price of pre emptied land when bold sold will be one dollar and a quarter per acre land warrants can be applied in payment before the public sale only the sale being for eash cash 1 rhe the commutation of a preemption pre emption into a homestead can be made anytime any time after the land is surveyed and the plots thereof transmitted by the surveyor general to the district land office the provisions of the homestead act allow a man upon occupancy of land for five consecutive years to enter it by paying ten dollars and the land offices ces fees but the homestead act c can n not take effect until the lands are brought into market by the proclamation of the president which will probably not be until some months after the land office is opened |
