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Desert Land Claimant Testimony, page 4

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QUESTION 18. Have you made any other desert-land entry, or has any other land embraced in any desert-land entry, in whole or in part, been assigned to you, or have you any interest, direct or indirect, in any other entry under the desert-land act? ANSWER. no. QUESTION 19. Describe by legal subdivisions and by number, kind of entry, and office where made any other entry or filing (not mineral), made by you, or assigned in whole or in part to you, since August 30, 1890. ANSWER. None made. QUESTION 20. If this proof is not submitted within five years from the date of your election to avail yourself of the statuary provisions in accordance with which this proof is made, state the reason for the failure to make the proof within said period. ANSWER. Has been submitted. [signature] Lizzie Speese (Sign here, with full Christian name.) NOTE.—Every person swearing falsely to the above deposition will be punished as provided by law for such offense. (See sec. 5392, R. S., below.) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing deposition was read to or by deponent in my presence before deponent affixed signature thereto; that deponent is to me personally known (or has been satisfactorily identified to me by --); that I verily believe deponent to be the identical person hereinbefore described; and that said deposition was duly subscribed and sworn to before me, at my office, in Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming, within the Cheyenne land district, this 24th day of January, 1916 [signature] John T. McDonald United States Commissioner. (Official designation of officer.) REVISED STATUTES OF THE UNITED STATES. TITLE LXX.— CRIMES.— CHAP. 4. Sec. 5392. Every person who, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered, that he will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly, or that any written testimony, declaration, deposition, or certificate by him subscribed is true, is guilty of perjury and shall be punished by a fine of not more than two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment, at hard labor, not more than five year; and shall, moreover, thereafter be incapable of giving testimony in any court of the United States until such time as the judgment against him is reversed. (See sec. 1750.) Note.— In addition to the above penalty every person who knowingly or willfully in anywise procures the making or presentation of any false or fraudulent affidavit pertaining to any matter within the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior may be punished by fine or imprisonment. (4)

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Homestead National Historical Park, Code: HOME

Homestead National Historical Park, Gage County, Nebraska
Latitude: 40.2879981994629, Longitude: -96.8339004516602

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01/01/1909 - 12/30/1917

Land Entry Case Files: Homestead Final Certificates. Record Group 49: Records of the Bureau of Land Management. National Archives and Records Administration.

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Organization: Homestead National Historical Park
Address: 8523 W State Hwy 4, Beatrice, NE 68310

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