Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-11-17
corps LAND REVIEW.
The New Additional Homestead Bill
that Did Net Become a Law.

Some few weeks ago gave synopsis OF
bill pending before Congress containing i'm
portant and benehcent provisions and pre-
dicted that it would pass both houses. Well,
the prediction proved correct, but the bill
failed to become law because it was not
reached by the President for signature before
the adjournment of Congress. have no
doubt that the matter will receive early at
tention when Congress reconvenes in Decem
| Der; that the bill will be re enacted, and
receive the signature of the President. In
order that the people may be familiar with
all Of its provisions, print it entire in this
letter to the exclusion of other matter, deem
ing it OF the utmost importance:
can act to allow persons who have aban.
doned or relinquished their homestead en-
tries to make another entry, and for other
purposes.
"Be it enacted etc., That any person who
has not heretofore perfected title to tract of
land which he has made filing upon under
the pre- .emption law, or entry of under the
homestead law may make homestead entry
of not exceeding one-quarter section of pub
lie land subject to such entry such previous
filing or entry to the contrary notwlthstand-
ing; but this right shall not apply to persons
who perfect title to lands under the pre- emp
ton or homestead laws already initiated.
"SEc. 2. ThaLwhenever it shall be made
to appear to the register and receiver OF any
public land office, under such regulations as
the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe,
that any settler upon the public domain un-
der existing law, is unable by reason OF
drouth, whole or partial destruction of crops,
sickness, or other unavoidable casualty, to
secure support for himself, herself or those
dependent upon him or her upon the lands
settled upon, then such register and receiver
grant to such settler leave Of absence from
the claim upon which he or she has filed for
period not exceeding one year at any one
time, and such settler so granted leave OF alb
sence shall forfeit no rights by reason of such
absence; Ro0idta, That the time OF such
actual absence shall not be deducted from the
actual residence required by law.
"SEc. Is. That the price of all sections
and parts of sections of the public lands,
within the limits of the portions OF the sew
eral grants of lands to aid in the construction
of railroads, which have been heretofore and
which may hereafter be forfeited, which were
by the act making such grants or have since
been increased to the double minimum price
and, also, of all lands within the limits OF
any such railroad grant, and not embraced in
the grant lying adjacent to and coterminous
with the portions Of the line OF any such
railroad which shall net be completed at the
date of this act, is hereby fixed at one dollar
and twenty FIVE cents per acre.
SEC. a. That from and after the passage
of this act, any homestead settler who has
entered less than one -quarter section OF land
NAV enter other and additional land lying
contiguous to the original entry, which shall
not, with the land first entered and occupied.
exceed in the aggregate, one hundred and
sixty acres without proof Of residence upon
and cultivation Of the additional entry; and
if final proof of settlement and cultivation
has been made for the original entry, wher
the additional entry is made, then the paten
shall issue without further proof
| "SEc. S. That every person entitled, un