James Thomas Witness Testimony Jones 003

QUESTION 10. (a) 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. From the early spring of 1914, but I have kept informed as to all matters pertaining to the Colony.

(b) 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. I have seen the land & claimant 6 or 8 times since the early spring of 1914

QUESTION 11. Are you interested in this claim, or related to the claimant? If so, how?

ANSWER. No interest, no relation

[signed] Dr. Wade A. Jones

(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 5392 of the Revised Statutes (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 the case; that the foregoing deposition was read to or by deponent in my presence before deponent affixed signature thereto; that deponent is to me personally known; 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 Denver, Denver, Colo., within the Denver land district the Jan. 13, 1915 day of__, 19__

[signed] Mary Wolfe Dargin

[stamp] Register

(Official designation of officer)

REVISED STATUTES OF THE UNITED STATES. TITLE LXX. CRIMES. Chap. 4.

Sec. 5392. Every person who, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes and oath to be administered, that he will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly, or that any sritten testimony, declaration, deposition, or certificate by him subscribed is true, willfully and contrary to such oath states or subscribes any material matter which he does not believe to be true, is guilty or perjury, and shall be punished by fine of not more than two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment, at hard labor, not more than five years; and shall, moreover, thereafter be incapable of giving testimony in any court of the United States until such time as the judgment against him is reversed. (See Sec. 1750.)

Note. In addition to the above penalty, every person who knowingly or willfully is anywise procures the making or presentation of any false or fraudulent affidavit pertaining to any matter within the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior may be punished by fine or imprisonment.

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