Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1887 — ISSUED A CIRCULAR [ARTICLE]

ISSUED A CIRCULAR

to all lan' - officers as fol owe: Before admitting railroad indemnity selections in any c».re ysn will require preliminary lie Is t» l;o filed specifying tit purinuhw de

ficieccies for which indemnity is claimed. Yon will then carefully examine your records, tract by tract, to ascertain whether the loss to the grant actually exists as alleged. You will admit no mdem nity selection without a proper basis theiefor. If you are in doubt whether the company is “ntitled to indemnity for losses claimed, you will transmit the preliminary lists to thi offic for instructions, and •>ill not place the selections upon record until directed so to do.— Where indemnity selections have heretofore been made without specification of losses you will require the companies to designate thed»-ficienei-s for which such indemnity is to be applied before fu*ther selections are allowed. The selecting agent applying to make indemnity selections must state in his affidavit attach'd to the list presented that the specify losses for which indemnity is claimed are truly set forth and dascribed in said iist, and txat said losses have not heretofore been indemnified in any manner. Where deficiencies exist for which indem» ity is allowed by law, the lieu selections must be made from vacant unappropriated land within proper sections and limits nearest the granted sections in w' .ich the losses curred. You will be careful to see that this rule is strictly complied with, and will reject all selections not in conformity thereto.

WILLIAM WALKER,

Acting Commissioner. Approved. L. Q. C. Lamar. Secretary.