9-1104. Notice of entry of land as townsite;
statement and filing of claims to land
A. The trustee shall then cause a notice to be published in all the newspapers
published in the city or town, or if no newspaper is published therein, then by posting
the notice in five public places in the city or town for sixty days successively, giving
notice of the entry of the land and requiring every claimant of a lot to file a statement
of his claim in the office of the trustee on or before ninety days from the first
publication. The statement shall be in writing, signed and sworn to by the claimant, or
if absent from the county, by his agent, and shall be recorded in a book to be kept for
that purpose by the trustee. It shall specify the grounds of the claim, particularly
describe the lots claimed, the date and name, as near as possible, of the first actual
occupant, what improvements have been made thereon, and that at the time of making the
statement the lots are actually possessed and occupied by the claimant, or that the right
to possession and occupation is in him, if then occupied by another.
B. The statement to the trustee shall be accompanied by a fee of twenty cents a
folio for filing and recording. The claimant shall within sixty days after expiration of
the time for filing claims, make proof of the facts alleged in his statement before the
trustee. No proof can be made after that time, unless the claimant has appeared within
that time and obtained and had entered in the records an order of continuance by the
trustee.
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