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QUESTION 16. Have you personal knowledge, from your own observation, that claimant and his family (if any) actually resided upon and cultivated this land each year in accordance with your above testimony? ANSWER. I have. QUESTION 17. How many times each year have you seen this land, and the claimant and his family residing thereon; and what other personal knowledge have you upon which your answers are based? ANSWER. At least once a month. My homestead is in the same neighborhood. QUESTION 18. Are you interested in this claim, or related to the claimant? If so, how? ANSWER. Neither interested nor related. [signature] Ervin Hamilton (Sign plainly, with full Christian name.) NOTE 1.—The officer before whom the proof is made will see that all answers are complete and responsive to the questions. NOTE 2.—The officer before whom the deposition is taken should call the attention of the witness to section 125 of the U. S. Criminal Code (below), and state to him that it is the purpose of the Government, if it be ascertained that he testifies falsely, to prosecute him to the full extent of the law. I HEREBY CERTIFY that the deponent was examined separately and apart from the other witnesses in the case; that the foregoing deposition was read to or by the deponent in my presence before deponent affixed signature thereto; 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 Roswell, Chaves Co., New Mexico within the Lincoln land district, this 6th day of April, 1920. [signature] Dan C. Savage U.S. Commissioner. (Official designation of officer.) UNITED STATES CRIMINAL CODE. SEC. 125. Whoever, 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, shall willfully and contrary to such oath state or subscribe any material matter which he does not believe to be true, is guilty of perjury, and shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars and imprisoned not more than five years. c 6—4320

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