Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-05-27
HOMESTEAD SETTLERS.
A Bill to Amend the Present Law


Special Telegram to the Inter-Ocean.
WASHINGTON, MAY 19.-An effort will
be made by the Committee on the Pub
lie Lands, after the present legislation
before the House is out of the way, to
have taken from the public calendar
and passed Mr.. Straits bill to amend
the present law granting additional
rights to homestead settlers on public
lands in railroad limits. The bill as
reported from the committee is amend
ed in several important particulars. 1t
provides that the even sections, or the
odd sections, or parts of sections that
may be included within the limits of
any grant on public lands to any rail-
road company, or to any military land
company, or to any state in aid of rail-
way or military road, and which are
now or may hereafter become subject to
entry under the laws of the United
States, shall be open to settlers under
the homestead laws to the extent of 100
acres to each settler. Any person who
has under existing laws, taken home
stead within the limit of any railroad
or military land grant, and who, by ex-
listing laws, shall have been redistricted
to less than 16O acres, may enter under
the homestead laws any of the public
lands of the United States subject to
homestead entry, as when added to the
quantity previously entered shall not
exceed 100 acres.
THE RESIDENCE AND CULTIVATION
of the land embraced in his original en-
try shall be considered residence, and
cultivation for the same length of time
upon and of the land embraced in his
additional or new entry, and shall be de-
Quoted from the FIVE years residence and
cultivation required by law. 1t further
provides that the person applying for
the benefit of the act shall secure a GER
tifcate from the register and the receiv-
er of the land district in which his
original homestead is situated, as to
what the records of their Office show
touching such original homestead entry,
and the same is free from conflict with
any other fling or entry. Upon the pre-
sentatiOn of the certificate to the Com
missioner of the General Land Office,
the Commissioner shall verify the same,
and append thereto a certificate specify
ing the number of acres of land which
the person so applying is entitled to en-
ter. Upon presentation Of such certifi-
cate to any district land office, the per-
son named therein shall be entitled to
euIeI tue QudhIlJy vi lduu C6IIlueu
therein by legal subdivision, upon pay
ment of the fee and commissions now
prescribed by law in case of homestead
entries; provided, that in no case shall
patent issue upon additional or new
homestead entry under the act until the
person has actually cultivated and i'm
proved the land embraced therein at
least one year. Proof of such cultiva-
ton shall be the affidavit of two dis
interested witnesses Of the county in
which such additional land is selected,
made before the register or receiver Of
the United States land Office or the Judge
or clerk of any court of record Of said
county. The register and receiver shall
each be entitled to receive fee of So in
addition to the fee now allowed by law
for the preliminary certificates required
by the second section of the act. Per-
sons who have heretofore made home
stead entries on less than 100 acres
whose entries were made in good faith
but not perfected within the seven years
allowed by law, may make second
homestead entry, which entry, together
with the original and forfeited entry,
shall not exceed 100 acres.