| Show TINKERING THE LAND LAWS the following new requirements hav ejust been issued by the general liand laud office and affect very seriously the manner of proving up on preemption pre emption and homestead claims the requirements are entirely uncalled for and will work eniy enly delay and trouble to settler sot both of which at present they have more than is necessary we are indebted to mr A D wheeler land attorney of this city for a copy of the law and instructions CIRCULAR new bew Bequir requirement ement as to giving notice of intention to prove up homestead and ire jre emption claims department OF THE tue r general land office washington D 0 april 15 1879 and receivers ta U S district zand land offices 8 sf gentlemen your attention is called to ot of the not act ot 91 congress entitle entitled ds an act to provide additional regulations for homestead and preemption pre emption entries of public landav landay lands approved march 3 1879 copy herewith hereafter no person claiming to enter public land under the homestead ate ad and preemption pre emption laws will be permitted to make final proof until notice has been givan given as required by said act any settler desiring to make final proof must first file with the register of the proper jand land office a writ ten notice of his intention to make final proof such notice must describe the land laud claimed and the claimant must give the names and residences of the witnesses by whom the necessary facts as to settlement residence cultivation etc are to be established see form no 1 the filing of such notice must be accompanied by a deposit of sufficient cl money to pay the cost of publishing the notice to be given by the register upon the filing of the notice by the applicant the register shall publish a notice of sueh such application once each week for tor a period d of 30 days in a newspaper w which he shall designate by an order written en said application aa as published nearest the land described in the application and he shall also post said notice in some conspicuous place in hla hia office for the same period A compliance with the law will require the notice to be published weekly five times because four weekly publications would not cover of SO 30 days the notice to be given by the register must state that application to make final proof has been filed the name of the applicant the kind hind of entry whether homestead or preemption pre emption a description of the land and the names and residences si of we the ess as stated in the application see form no 2 to save expense the register may embrace two or more cases in one publication when it can be done consistently with the legal ments mento of publication in a newspaper published nearest the land as per attached form no 3 when proof is filed that notice has been given in the manner and for the ther time required by said act of Cob coh congress gress the applicant will be entitled to make ninal final proof aa as provided td b by the he laws in force at the date of the approval of said act the proof that requisite notice has been given will be the certificate of the register that the notice of the application a copy pf af which should be annexed to the certificate was posted by him in a conspicuous place in his office for a period of thirty days and the affidavit ada ot of the publisher or foreman of the newspaper that the notice a copy of which notice must be annexed to the affidavit was published in said newspaper once each week for five successive weeks the proof of the publication and posting of the notice must be filed and preserved by the register to be forwarded to this office with the final papers when issued the notices affidavit affidavits certificates etc required under said act should in form be substantially like the forms fornis hereto appended very respectfully J A commissioner |
