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Show IMPORTANT TO SETTLERS. i There is a point of law relative to the entry of land by settlers, which it is very important should be known by those who settle on land deemed desirable desir-able by other parties. After notice is publicly given that the official plats of mrveyed lands are in the Hester's office, ninety days are allowed the settler set-tler to make the necessary entry. If he neglects to do so, and another person per-son commences and makes improvements improve-ments on the same laud, the latter person per-son can make the necessary entry and claim the land as the bona fide settler ut the expiration of ninety days from the time he notified the Land Office of his being a settler on it, the earlier settler set-tler having failed to put in his .claim. Thus a man might settle aud improve laud for twenty years before the official survey was made, and if, when the plats of that survey were lodged in the Register's Reg-ister's office, he neglected to put in his claim for the land he had so long improved, im-proved, any other citizen could commence com-mence inprovements on it, and in three months, by taking advantage of the original settler's negligence, could lay claim to the land aud by l::w would obtain it. This is a matter of very great importance impor-tance to settlers on public lands, aud one they should not lose sight of. The law as here stated may be relied on, our information having been received from the Land Office in this city. |
