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Show I RECENT DECISIONS GOVERNING LAND H Rulings Bearing Upon Questions H . of Special Import to Citi- H zens of Iron County H An American citizen who on- H ten public lands in Canada and H takes oath prescribed to perform H that act, docs not thereby ncces- H Harily oxpatriato himself from H citizenship in the United States. H It requires an oath of allegiance H to a foreign government to effect H expatriation. H The preference right of entry H awarded to a successful contest's contest-'s ant is not an absolute and uncon-M uncon-M ditional right to make entry re-H re-H gardlcss of the status of the land H at the time of cancellation of the H contested entry. It is only the H preferred right, to the oxclusion H of other applicants, which cn-H cn-H titles the contestant within the H preference right period to make H entry if the lund bo subject to H entry under such application as H ho shall present, but he can only H mako such entry as may bo np-H np-H propriate, consideration being H given to the status of the lund at H the timo he tenders application. H Tho judicial vacation of a pat's pat-'s ent to public lands docs not, of H itself, mako such land subject to H entry or any form of application H until the former entry or patent H is cancelled on tho records of the H Genoral Land Oflko and the H proper local oflko; and no appli-H appli-H cation will bo received or any H recognized until this action has H been taken. H Tho segregative ofTect of an H entry is tho sumo whether pat- ,.WL ,,t. antcul. .oiunn jwtontQil.. and the H record must bo cloarcd boforo H any other application may be re-H re-H ceivod. H Tho continued occupancy of H land by a claimant and his liber- H nl cultivation and substantial im H provemont thereof, mado after H tho submission of final proof, is H strongly indicativo of an origin- H al purposo to mako tho land an H ugricultrual home. H Settlement upon unsurvoyed H lands to bo availed of as against H any other appropriation must Hj have been followed up by actual H residoncQ established within, a H reasonable timo after settlement. |