438 BUFFALO LAND. 



be not in the winter. Come at such season as will enable you 

 to provide at least some shelter and supplies before the in- 

 clement months come on. 



Furniture and provisions can be purchased at very reason- 

 able rates at the West, and no necessity exists, therefore, for 

 bringing one or two car loads of broken chairs, and partially 

 filled flour barrels. Good stock will repay transportation, but 

 common breeds are abundant and cheap on the ground. Texas 

 yearlings can be purchased for about six dollars per head in 

 Kansas. 



HOMESTEAD LAWS AND EEGULATIONS. 



The following is an epitome, by a former Register of a Uni- 

 ted States Land Office, of such laws and regulations as pertain 

 to the securing of Government land : 



The Pre-emption Act of September 4, 1841, provides, that 

 " every person, being the head of the family, or widow, or single 

 man over the age of twenty-one years, and being a citizen of 

 the United States, or having filed a declaration of intention to 

 become a citizen, as required by the naturalization laws/' is 

 authorized to enter at the Land Office one hundred and sixty 

 acres of unappropriated Government land by complying with 

 the requirements of said act. 



It has been decided that an unmarried or single woman over 

 the age of twenty-one years, not the head of the family, but 

 able to meet all the requirements of the pre-emption law, has 

 the right to claim its benefits. 



Where the tract is " offered,' 7 the party must file his de- 

 claratory statements within thirty days from the date of his 

 settlement, and within one year from the date of said settle- 



