ABANDONMENT OF HOMESTEAD.
Owatonna, Minn.
To settle a dispute, please state whether a person who has “filed” on a quarter section of public land, under the homestead laws, and has let it go back to the government, can make another homestead entry?
Old Subscriber.
Answer.—According to “Copp’s Public Land Laws,” as the law allows but one homestead privilege, “a settler relinquishing or abandoning his claim cannot thereafter make a second entry; but where an entry is canceled as invalid for some reason other than abandonment, and not the wilful act of the party, he is not thereby debarred from entering again, if in other respects entitled, and may be allowed credit for fees and commissions already paid, on a new homestead entry.” Such a claimant must be prepared to show that he did not voluntarily abandon his first entry.
PHARMACY LAWS AND TRAINED DRUGGISTS.
Hodges Park, Ill.
What States have pharmacy laws, and what is the proportion of trained druggists in this country?
A Subscriber.