Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1883 — Property of Aliens. [ARTICLE]

Property of Aliens.

Each of the States has its own laws in regard to the rights of aliens. In lowa aliens; that is persons of 'foreign, birth who have not been naturalized by their, own act or that of their parents, may aoquire, inherit, hold, and dispose of property, real or personal, precisely as if they were citizens. ''The same is true in most of the States. In Penn- • sylvania alien friends may buy lands not exceeding 6,000 acres, nor in net annual income $20,000. apd hold the same as citizens may, but there are certain differences between them and citizens in the matter of real estate conveyances, inheritance, etc. A mill prevents the property of an alien from escheating to the State in case of nonappearance of heirs; and, as in the case of citizens, transcends the statute and common law as to the division of property among the heirs of persons who die intestate, i. e., without testamentary wills.

A Colorado swindle is to buy a lot of “remnants” of Texas herds, mostly barren cows and bony steers, have them “bopked,” compute the increase by ordinary rides, and after awhile sell the lot on the range, of course without counting. It is said that iu this way herds of 2,000 have been 'sold and paid for as 10,000. .