34 GRASS LANDS OF THE SOUTH ALASKA COAST. 



must file such certificates in the General Land Office, together with satisfactory 

 proof of ownership and of bona fide purchase for value. If, upon examination, 

 the proof so filed is satisfactory, an additional certificate will be attached to 

 the original authorizing the location thereof, or entry of land therewith, in 

 the name of the assignee or his assigns. (Circular of October 10, 1894; 19 L. D., 

 302. ) 



Existing homestead laws, while recognizing settlement upon unsurveyed pub- 

 lic lands, do not authorize the entry or the patenting thereof until the public 

 surveys have been regularly extended over them. This section as amended, 

 however, in terms authorizes the entry of unsurveyed lauds in Alaska, and makes 

 provision for a private survey for the purpose of patenting the claim, if the 

 public sui'veys have not been extended thereto at the time it is desired to sub- 

 mit proof, as is hereinafter referred to. 



In executing surveys for homestead applications the instructions now pre- 

 vailing will be followed, and the limit of 160 rods as to frontage will be meas- 

 ured along the meandered line of said frontage. 



The form of the tract sought to be entered, if upon unsurveyed land, is pre- 

 scribed in the act as follows : 



If any of the land * * * is luisurveyed, then the land * * * must be 

 in rectangular form, not more than a mile in length, and located upon the north 

 and south lines run according to the true mei-idian. 



That is. the boundary lines of each entry must be run in cardinal directions, 

 true north-and-south and east-and-west lines by reference to a true meridian (not 

 magnetic), with the exception of the meander lines on meanderable streams 

 and navigable waters forming a part of the boundary lines of the entry. Thus 

 a frontage meander line, and other meander lines which form part of the bound- 

 ary of a claim, will be run according to the directions in the Manual of Sur- 

 veying Instructions issued by this Office, but other boundaiy lines will be run 

 in true east-and-west and north-and-south directions, thus forming rectangles, 

 except at intersections with meander lines. 



In other respects the rules i)reviously adopted to govern surveys of claims 

 under the act of May 14, 1898, will continue to be followed, of course taking 

 into consideration the limitations as to area of claims. 



Every person who is qualified under existing laws to make a homestead entry 

 of the public lands of the United States who settles or has settled upon any of 

 the unsurveyed public lands of the United States in the district of Alaska with 

 the intention of taking the same under the homestead law shall, within ninety 

 days from date of settlement or prior to the intervention of an adverse claim, 

 file the record of his location for record in the recording district in which the 

 land is situated, as provided by sections 13 to 10 of the act of June 0, 1900 (31 

 Stat. L., 326 to 328). 



Said record shall contain the name of the settler, the date of settlement, and 

 .<uch description of the land settled on. by reference to some natural object or 

 permanent monument as will identify the same. 



If at the expiration of the time required under sections 2291 and 2292, Re- 

 vised Statutes, and as modified by section 2305, Revised Statutes, or at such 

 date as the settler desires to commute under section 2301, Revised Statutes, the 

 public surveys have not been extended over the land located, the locator may 

 secure a patent for the land located by procuring,' at his own expense, a survey 

 of the land, which must be made by a deputy surveyor who has been duly ap- 

 pointed by the surveyor-genei'al, in accordance with section 10 of the act of 

 May 14, 1898 (30 Stat L., 409), and the provisions of the act of March 3, 1903, as 

 herein set forth. 



