Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-04-17
The Soldiers Homestead act.

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mits the Union soldier Of the late war q
/ locate and enter upoa a quarter section o
the public land. under the homestead Law
aud to deduct the term Of his servies
from the time hitherto required in Ordei
10 perfect the title. The act provides
that every private soldier and officer who
served in the army Of the United States
during the recent rebellion for ninety day
or more. and was honorebly discharged,
aud has remained loyal to government,
shall be entitled to enter upon and receive
patents for a quantity Of public lands, not
mineral, not exceeding one hundred and
sixty acres, or one quaier section, 10 be
taken in compact form. according to legal
subdivisions, including the alternate reser-
we'd sections Of public land along the line
Of any railroad or other public work not
otherwise reserved CT appropriated, and
other lands subject to entry under the
homestead laws Of the United States pro.
vided that said homestead settler shall be
allowed six months after locating his home
stead within which &c commence his settle
ment and improvement, and provided also
that the time which the homestead settlers
have served in the army, navy or marine
corps, shall be deducted from the time
heretofore required to perfect the title,
without reference to the length Of time
served; provided, however, that no patent
shall issue to any homestead settler who
has not resided upon, improved and culti-
waited his said homestead for a period of
least one year after he shall commence his
improvements.
The third section provides that in cas-,
OF the deuth of any person who would be
entitled to homestead under the provis.
IONS OF the first section, his widow, If I'M
or in case of her death or mar
rlage then his minor orphan children, by
a guardian duly appointed and officially
accepted at the Department of the Inter.
or, shall be entitled TO all the benefits
in this act, and if such Der.
on died during histerm of enlistment, the
whole term of his enlistment shall be de.
'ucted from the the time heretofore re-
luired to perfect the title.
Tha fourth section provides that where
party az the date Of the entry of land
nder the homestead laws. or subsequent
the e!o was acua' y en- tie and TN
Logged in the army of the United States, ,
IS services therein, Shall, in the admins.
alton IT sud homestead laws, be c n
rued to be equivalent, to all intents amp
imposes, TO q residence of the same >,
myth of time upon the tract so entered; !
his entry has been cancelled by reason ;,
his absence from SAID tract whsle in !,
e military or naval scrvioe Of the Uni
d States, an | such tract has not been
Sposed OF, his entry shall be restored n
ID confirmed and if such tract has been 7,
'posed Of said sarty may enter another m
'ct subject TO entry under said laws, n,
d his right to patent shall be deter h.
ned by the proofs touching the resi- o.
nee and cultivation Of the first tract and &,
) absence therefrom in such service. -,
The fifth section provides that any SOL On
IT, sailor, marine, officer or other per. &,
! within the provisions of this act, may "a
well by an agent as in person enter ha
on said homestead, pro vded that said -,
INFANT in person shall within the time
commence settlement and i'm. Q
,vements on the same, and thereafter :,
I'll all the requirements of this act.
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The bill in the sixth section provides ~.
t the Commits sIOner of the General =
nd Office ahall have the authority to
kc all neediul rules and regulations to
ry into effect the provisions Of the act '"'