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MONTHLY DIGEST 



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Of Important Law Points Recently 



Decided by the Secretary of the 



Interior. 



August, 1912. 

 Homesteads. 



Credit for military service under 

 section 2305 Revised Statutes applies 

 only to residence and not to any culti- 

 vation that may be specifically re- 

 quired. 



Section 4 of the act of February 

 19, 1909, requires, among other things 

 in making final proof on entries under 

 the revised statutes, proof also of 

 cultivation of specific portions of the 

 entry from year to year. 



Obviously the specific requirements 

 of said act as to cultivation cannot be 

 affected by the previously enacted 

 section 2305 R. S., allowing credit as 

 to residence on homestead entries for 

 military service. 



Isolated Tracts. 



Under the provisions of the act of 

 April 30, 1912, isolated tracts can be 

 sold and entered with a reservation to 

 the government of the coal rights. 

 In such case the entryman should 

 signify his willingness to accept a 

 limited patent. 



Practice. 



In a contest between two entry- 

 men, who in good faith settle upon 

 two adjoining homesteads, simultan- 

 eously, their rights will be equitably 

 adjusted by the department. 



NOTE In the above case, the de- 

 partment follows the reasoning in 

 Williams vs. U. S. (138 U. S. 514), 

 and overrules the case of Sumner vs. 

 Roberts (23 L. D. 201.) 



It has often been held by the de- 

 partment that, .where an entry has 

 been erroneously allowed in violation 

 of the rule of approximation, said en- 

 try may remain intact subject to con- 

 sideration by the Board of Equitable 

 Adjudication, when it is shown that 

 such entry could not be reduced with- 

 out forfeiture of the improvements of 

 . claimant. 



Information as'to proposed restora- 

 tion of lands will not be given out in 

 advance of the publication of Execu- 

 .tive orders affecting such lands, not 

 . even to those asserting claims, as 

 such information might embarrass the 

 department in its adjudication of such 

 claims. 



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