LAND LAWS APPLYING TO ALASKA. 35 



When the survey, either pul)Iio or private, as herein provided for is approved 

 by the surveyor-general under authority of this Office, the same i-ules should be 

 follovped as heretofore established governing the location of soldiers' additional 

 homestead rights, in addition to which the settler must furnish the requlreil 

 proof of residence and cultivation. 



The office of the surveyor-general of Alaska is located at Sitka. 

 Section 10 of said act of May 14, 1898, also provides that all affidavits, 

 testimony, proofs, and other papers provided for by this act and by said act of 

 March 3, 1891, or by any departmental or Executive regulation thereunder, by 

 depositions or otherwise, under commission from the register and receiver of 

 the land office, which may have been or may hereafter be taken and sworn 

 to anywhere in the United States, before any court, judge, or other officer 

 authorized by law to administer an oath, shall be admitted in evidence as if 

 taken before the register and receiver of the proper local land office. And 

 thereafter such pvoot, together with a certified copy of the field notes and plat 

 of the survey of the claim, shall be filed in the office of the surveyor-general 

 , of the district of Alaska, and if such survey and plat shall be approved by 

 him, certified copies thereof, together with the claimant's application, shall be 

 filed in the United States land office in the land district in which the claim is 

 situated, whereupon, at the expense of claimant, the register of such land 

 office shall cause notice of such application to be published for at least sixty 

 days In a newspaper of general circulation publshed nearest the claim within 

 the district of Alaska, and the applicant shall at the time of filing such field 

 notes, plat, and application to purchase in the land office aforesaid, cause a 

 "opy of such plat, together with the application to purchase, to be posted upon 

 the claim, and such plat and application shall be kept posted in a conspicuous 

 place on such claim continuously for at least sixty days, and during such pei-iod 

 of posting and publication, or within thirty days thereafter, any person, cor- 

 poration, or association having or asserting any adverse interest in, or claim to. 

 the tract of land or any part thereof sought to be purchased, may file in the 

 land office where such application Is pending, under oath, an adverse claim 

 setting forth the nature and extent thereof, and such adverse claimant shall, 

 within sixty days after the filing of such adverse claim, begin action to quiet 

 title in a court of competent jurisdiction within the district of Alaska, and 

 Thereafter no patent shall issue for such claim until the final adjudication of 

 the rights of the parties, and such patent shall then be Issued in conformity 

 with the final decree of the court. 



When a settler desires to commute, the survey and homestead application 

 must cover his entire claim, l)ut only 160 acres, or less, thereof may be coni- 

 nuitetl. in which event the entry will stand intact as to the portion not 

 comnmted. subject to future compliance with the retiuirements of law within 

 the statutory period of seven years. 



Entrymen who commute will be required to pay, in addition to the price of 

 $1.25 per acre, the same fees and commissions as in final homesteads. 



Whenever a settler or other claimant desires to make entry or submit final 

 proof, he should address the register and receiver of the United States land 

 office at Juneau. Alaska. 



