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 '1`rrm·: xxx1r.——THE PUBLIC LANDS.—-Ch. ~1-5. 419 eacl1_of su¢·h_qun1:tep-section shall be appropriated for the purpose of ewwtinig public buildings in the county or parish for which it is located, after oc ucting th0i·ofrom tho amount originally paid for the same. And the scat of jnstme for such counties or parishes, respectively, shall be nxed previously to a sale of the adjoining lands within the county or parish for which t IG same is located. Sur. 2284. Any bona-fide settler under the homestead or pre-cmption Whew claimant laws of the U mtod States who has iilod the proper application to enter °l ‘?“”'Y b°°°m°¤ not to exceed one quartensection of the public lands in any district ;§§;';t°" °" "` land-office, and who has neon subscnuently appointed a register or vc- cciver, inuy Ecrfoct the title to the and under the pro-emption laws by 2120 ;*é’“l»,l871·°· funnishing the proofs and npaking the payments required by law, to the ’E' ’v'1"p’w' satisfaction of the Commissioner of the General Land-Otlicc. S20. 2288. Any person who has already settled or hereafter may set- Rightoftmnsfcr tle on the pubho lands, enther by pre-emption, or by virtue of the home- of '°m°” und" stead law or any amendments thereto, shall have the right to transfer, €;?§*:)t§a?a;Fsp§ by warrantv against his own acts, any portion of his pre-omption or ce.-mu public pm-. homestead for church, cemetery, or school purposes, or or the right of poses. way of railroads across such preemption or homestead, and the transfer Act of 3 Mm. for such public purposes shall in no way vitinta the right to complete 1873,c.266,v.17,p: and perfect the title to their pre—emptions or homestoads. 602- CHAPTER FIVE. HOIESTEADS. sw. Sec. 2289. Who may enter certain unappropri- 2303. Repeal of section and further dispoated public landn. sition of lands. 2290. Mode of procedure. 2304. Soldicnf and sailors’ homestead. 2291. Certificate and patent, when given 2305. Deduction of military and naval and issued. service from time, &a·. Proof of residence. I 2306. Persons who have entered less than False swearing, penalty for. _ 160 acres, rights of. 2292. When rights inure to the benefit of 2307. Widows and minor children of perinfant children. sons entitled to homestead, &<·. 2293. Persons in military or naval service, 2308. Actual sorvic-c in the Army or Navy when and before whom to make equivalent to residence, &c. affidavit. i 2309. Who may enter by agent. 2294. When persons may make affidavit 2310. Chiefs, &c., of Stovkhridgo Munbefore clerk of court. sees, homestead rights of. 2295. Record of a plications. 2311. Exemptions of homestead of Stock- 2296. Homestead llmds not to be subject bridge Munsees. to prior debts. 2312. Stockbridge Munsecs becoming citi- 2297. When lands entered for homestead zens. reverttoGovernment. 2313. Unsold lands of the Ottawa and 2298. Limitation of amount entered for Chippewa Indians, how opened homestead. for omesmwd. 2299. Existin preemption rights not im- 2314. Selection for minors under precedaircd. ing section. 2300. What minors may have the privi- 2315. Bonwfidc settlers on above lands leges of this chapter. prior to, &c. 2301. Payment before expiration of five 2315. Certain landsto be patented to Inyears, rights of applicant. dnans making selection. 2302. No distinction on account of raoeor 2317. Cultivation of trees on homestead color, &c. tracts. 2303. What lands disposed of only as homesteads. Sec. 2289. Every person who is the head_ of a. family, or who has Wno may mm arrived at the a a of twenty-one years, and is a cmzen of the Umwd °°’$*“{* d°¤**P%',?· Shiites, or who gas tiled his declaration of intention to become such, as f;:]'; ° Y"' ° required by the naturalization laws, shall bc entitled to enter cnc quar- . terscction or a less quantity of unappropriatad publio lands, upon wnicb 20 May, 1882, c. Such person may have tiled a pro-omption claim, or which may, at the tune 75i xg 12i&292· the application is made,bo subject topre—emption at one dollar and twently- 25 vi 18 an 15] °· HV6 cents r acre; or eighty acres or less of Such un¤.pp1‘0];r1¤ted_lan s, 33 Ma;." 1874, c_ at two dolllalls and fifty cents per acre, to be located m a y, in con- 55, v. 18, p. 22.