He Is To Provide, According To The Regulations Of The Land Office Or Otherwise, Indicia, By Which The Limits Of His Claim Shall Be Known, He Must Perform Acts Of Possession Or Intended Ownership On The Land, As Notice To Others; And That Suffices To Secure His Rights Under The Statute.

It is not necessary for him to cultivate every separate quarter of his quarter-section; it is not necessary

For him even to enclose each; it only needs that in good faith he take possession, with intention of occupation and settlement, and proceed in good faith to occupy and settle, in such time and in such manner, as belong to the nature of agricultural occupation and settlement.

Why should there be a different rule in regard to occupants for municipal preemption? The latter is, by the very tenor of the law, the preferred object. Why should those interested in it be subject to special disabilities of competing occupancy? I cannot conceive.

It is obvious that, in municipal settlement, as well as agricultural, there must be space of time between the commencement and the consummation of occupation. There will be a moment, when the equitable right of the agricultural settler is fixed, although he have as yet done nothing more in the way of inhabiting or improving than to cut a tree or drive a stake into the earth. And it may be long before he improves each one of all his quarter quarter-sections. So, in principle, it is in the case of settlement for a town.

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