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Resolved, that every White person capable of transact- Article 10th 

 ing business, & making or causing to be made, an im- ?i^T s 

 provement on a claim, with the evident design of becom- hold 

 ing a settler thereon, shall be entitled to be protected in 

 holding a claim on one quarter section, and no more — How much— 

 Except, where persons holding claims on the Prairie or 

 open Barrens, where the board may decide they have 

 not sufficient timber to support their farm, shall be al- 

 lowed to divide one quarter section of timber between 

 four such Prairie claims — 



The board of arbitrators may require any person mak- [Claimant 

 ing a claim to take an oath or affirmation that he intends m fy 

 the same for actual settlement, or [if timber] use of 

 his farm — 



No person settling in thick timber shall be allowed to [T]imber 

 hold more than Eighty acres of timber, but shall be pro- claims— 

 tected in a claim of Eighty acres on the Prairie — 



take oath- 



Resolved, that before land is offered for sale, that each Article nth 

 district shall select a bidder to attend and bid off all Provision for 

 claims, in the claimant's name, and that, if necesary, 

 every settler will constantly attend the sale, prepared to 

 aid each other to the full extent of our ability in obtain- 

 ing every claimants land at goverment price — 



Resolved, that after the board of arbitrators have de- Article 12th 



cided that any indidual has obtruded upon anothers Howtoen - 



i ore 6 

 claim, and he refuses to give the legal owner peaceable decisions 



possession, that we will not deal with, or countanance 



him as a settler until he makes the proper restitution — 



Resolved, that we will each use our endeavors to ad- Article 13** 

 vance the rapid settlement of the County, by inviting our 

 friends and acquaintance to join us, under the full assur- safety in 

 ance that we shall now obtain our rights, and that it is improveing 

 now perfectly as safe to go on improving the public land 

 as though we already had our titles from goverment — 



