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Show AN IMPORTANT DECISION Patents To School Lands. Editor Deseret News: We have lately, on appeal to the Honorable Secretary of the Interior, in the case of Jane Hodgert, obtained a ruling which opens up to preemptors of our school sections the means of obtaining patents for their lands, subject to certain provisions, principal of which is occupancy with a view to preemption previous to the filing of the survey of said lands. There are many persons living on sections 16 and 36 who made their residences there before the survey of the lands, who have neglected through lack of understanding of the law, to make their entries during the ninety days allowed after the filing of the surveys. Such persons can now make their entries and obtain their patents by fulfilling the provisions of the law governing preemptions. Very respectfully, Stayner & Simmons, Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. (January) 14, 1881. |