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comply with the law. A husband and wife can not, however, maintain sep- 

 arate residences on homestead entries held by each of them, 

 and, if at the time of marriage, they are each holding- an un- 

 perfected entry on which they must reside in order to acquire 

 title, thev can not hold both entries. 



Briefly 

 Telling of 

 the Rights 

 of Land. 



A widow, if otherwise qualified, may make a homestead 

 entry notwithstanding the fact that her husband made an entry 

 and notwithstanding she may be at the time claiming the unperfected entry 

 of her deceased husband. 



A person serving in the Army or Navv of the United States mav make 

 a homestead emtrv if some member of his family is residing on the lands 



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A Picturesque Montana Valley. 



applied for, and 'the application and accompanying affidavits may be executed 

 before the officer commanding the branch of the service in wdiich he is 

 engaged. 



A homestead entry may be made by the presentation to the land office 

 of the district in which the desired lands are situated of an application prop- 

 erly prepared on blank forms prescribed for that purpose and sworn to 

 before either the register or the receiver, or before a United States com- 

 missioner, or a judge, or a clerk of a court of record, in the county in which 

 the land lies, or before anv officer O'f the classes named who resides in the 



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