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Show It is said ;that tho issuance of United btatcs patents for government lands entered either by pre-emption or homestead home-stead commutation are at least four years in arrears, and that no cases under these acts will bo considered out of their order save by special showing upon satisfactory allidavits. In cases where pre-emptions or commuted homesteads have been made in tho immediate im-mediate vicinity or arc contiguous or a part of an established townsite, a suspension sus-pension of departmental rule is made on proper representation of the facts, then such cases may be taken out of their regular order and passed for patenting. pat-enting. ... |