The Legislative Blue-Book of the Territory of New Mexico; With the Rules of Order, Fundamental Law, Official Register and Record, Historical Data, Compendium of Facts, Etc., Etc (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...any law. Such tracts are sold on application to the Land Ilegister, 'ho issues a certificate of purchase, the Receiver giving a receipt for the money sAA, subject to the issue of a patent, or complete tide, if the proceedings are uund regular, by the Commissioner of the General Land Office at Washington. Entries under land warrants (given mostly for military services under acts of ongress) have fallen off very largely by the absorption of such warrants, there avmy been no military bounty land warrants provided for on account of services the late civil war. Entries under the pre-emption law are restricted to heads of families, or cil iens over twenty-one, who may settle upon any quarter-section (or 160 acres) j lid have the right of prior claim to purchase on complying with certain rcglatluna. The homestead laws give the right to one hundred and sixty acres of a dollar Ida quarter lands, or to eighty acres of two dollar and a half lands, to any citizen i' applicant for citizenship over twenty-one who will actually settle upon and cclrate tho land. This prlvilego extends only to the surveyed lands, and the title is srfectedby the issue of a patent after five years of actual settlement. The only aarges in the case of homestead entries are fees and commissions, varying from a linimum of.157 to a maximum of $22 for the whole tract entered, according to the be, value or place of record. I Another large class of free entries of public lands is that provided for under the Imber-culture acts of 1873-78. The purpose of these laws is to promote the growth f forest trees on the public lands. They give the right to any settler who has OUR PUBLIC LAND SYSTEM. cultivated for two years as much as five acres in trees, to an eighty-acre homestead, or if ten acres, to a home...