Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-11-17
OOPP'S LAND REVIEW.
The New Additional Homestead BIll that
 Did not Become a Law

The New Additional Homestead BIll that
 Did not Become a Law
 Some few weeks ago I gave synopsis of bill pending before congress con- tsining important and benefcent proyi- sions. snd predicted that it would pass both houses. We'll, the prediction prov ed correct, but the bill failed to become 8 law because it was not reached by the President for signatuae before the sd- journment of congress. l have no doubt that the matter will receive early stten- ton when congress reconvenes m Dec ember; that the bill will be re-enacted. and receive the signature of the PresI- dent. In order thst the people may be familiar with all of its provisions, print it entire m this letter to the eIclu- sion of other matter. deeming 1t of the utmost importance;
 "An act to allow persons who have Bbsn
 doned or relinguished their homestead
 entries to make another entry, and for
 other purposes,
 "Be it enacted etc.. That any person who has not heretofore perfected title to a tract of land which he has made t1l- ing upon under the pre-emption law, or entry of under the homestead law may make homestead entry of not exceed ing one-quarter section of public land subject to such entry such Pre 7ious hl- ing or entry to the contrary notwith- standing, but thIs right shall not apply to persons who perfect title to lands un- dor the pre- emption or homestead laws already initiated.
 Sec. 2. Tha. whenever it shall be made to appear to the register and receiver Of any public land office, under such regu- lstions as the secretary of the interior may prescribe. that any settler upon the public domain under existing law, IS unable by reason of droutb, whole CT partial destruction of crops. sickness, or other unavoidable casualty, to secure a support for himself, herself or those de- pendent upon him or her upon the lands settled upon, then such register and re- ceiver may grant such settler leave of absence from the claim upon which he or she has filed for period not exceed ing one year at any one time, and such settler so granted leave of absence shsll forfeit no rights by reason of such ab- oCuCCs T AONl0CA 4het AhI NAAAC OA o1NA actual absence shall not be deducted from the actual residence required by law.
 "5Ec. 3, That the price Of all sections snd parts of sections of the public lands within the limits of the portions O! the several grants of lands to aid in the con- struction of railroads, which have been heretofore and which may hereafter be forfeited, which were by the act mskIn 2 such grants or have since been increas- cd to the double minimum price and, also, of all lands within the limits of any such railroad grant, and not em- braced in the grant lyInR adjacent to and coterminous with the portions of the lIre of any such railroad which shall not be completed at the date of this act, is hereby fixed at one dollar and twenty five cents p acre.
 SEC. f. That from and after the pss- sage of this act, any homestead settler who has entered less than one-quarter section of land msy enter other and ad- diiioDal land lying contiguous tO the original entry, which shall not, with the land first entered snd occupied. exceed in the aggregate, one hundred and sixty acres without proof of residence upon and cultivation the additional entry; and if final proof of settlement and cul- tivation has been made for the original entry. when, the additional entry is made then the patent shall issue without fur ther proof.
 "SEC. 5, That every person entitled, under the provisions of the homestead laws, to enter 8 homestead, who has heretofore complied with, or who shall hereafter comply with the conditions of said laws, and who shall have made his final proof hereunder, for quantity Of land less than one hundred snd sixty acres, and received the receivers final receipt therefor shall be entitled under said laws to enter. by legal subdivisions of the pu bile lands of the United States subject to homestead entry SO much sd. ditional land ss added to the quantity previously so entered by him shall not exceed one hundred and sixty acres Provided, That in no case shall patent issue until Ihe person making such ad' ditionsl homestead entry shall have Rc' tnally and in conformity with tbe home stead laws resided upon and cultivated the land entered therein and otherTise complied with such laws"
 Should my opinion as herein express | ed be verified, many homeless people will have occasion to rejoice in the op portunity to secure homes.
 HENRY N. CoPP.