Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-03-23
NEW LAND BILL.
FORFEITED RAILROAD LAND REDUC-
 TO S1.25 PER ACRE.
Passed by Congress and Signed by Presi-
 dent Cleveland.

J6Cl IO SUCH 0ulIy, SUCH pTcNlOUS ulluS l or entry to the contrary notwithstand- ing; but this right shall not apply to persons who perfect titles to lands un- der the pre-emption or homestead laws already initiated; PROVIDED, That all pre-emption settlers upon the pub l lie lands whose claims have been in itiated prior to the passage of this act may change such entries to homestead entries and proceed to perfect their titles to their respective claims under the homestead law, notwithstanding they may have heretofore had the ben eft of such law, but such settlers who perfect title to such claims under the homestead law shall not thereafter be entitled to enter other lands under the pre-emption or homestead laws of the United States.
 Sec. 3. That whenever 1t shall be made to appear to the register and receiver of any public land office, un- der such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, that any settler upon the public domain under existing law, is unable by reason of a total or partial destruction or failure of crops, sickness or other unavoid able casualty, to secure support for himself, herself, or those dependent upon him or her upon the lands set tied upon, then such register and re- ceiver may 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 absence shall forfeit no rights by reason of such absence; Provided, that the time of such actual absence shall not be deducted from the actual resi- dence required by law.
 Sec. 4. That the price of all sec tions and parts of sections of the pub lie lands within the limits of the DOT tions of the several grants of land to aid in 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, but embraced in such grant lying adjacent 10 and coterminous with the portions of the line of any such railroad which shall not be com pleted at the date of this act, is hereby fixed at 125 per acre.
 Sec. }. That any homestead set
 tier who has heretofore entered less than one quarter section of land may enter other and additional land lying contiguous to the original entry, whicl
 shall not, with the land first entered
 and occupied, exceed in the aggregate
 160 acres without proof of residence
 upon and cultivation of the additiona
 entry; and if final proof of settlemen
 and cultivation has been made for tn,
 original entry, when the additiona
 entry is made, then the patent shal
 issue without further proof: Provided
 That this section shall not apply to o
 for the benefit of any person who a
 the date of making application for en
 try hereunder does not own and oC
 cupy the lands covered by his origina
 entry; And provided: That ii tn
 original entry should fail for any req
 son prior to patent or should appea
 to be illegal or fraudulent, the at
 ditional entry shall not be permitted
 or, if having already been initiated
 shall be cancelled.
 Sec. 6. That every person entitled
 under the provisions ofthe homestead
 who has heretofore complied with C
 who shall hereafter comply with tn
 conditions of said laws, and who sha
 have made his final proof thereundt r for quantity of land less than 1t ! acres and received the receivers fin; . receipt therefor, shall be entitled Ill $ der said laws to enter as person; . right and not assignable, by legal suI 1n divisions of the public lands of u h United States subject to homestea e entry, so much additional land as ad'
 ed to the quantity previously so ente
 ed by him shall not exceed l6o acre r Provided, That in no case shall pa s ent issue for the land covered by suC ; additional entry until the person ma n ing such additional entry shall ha $ actually and in conformity with u V homestead laws resided upon and cl o tivated the land so additionally ente r. ed and otherwise fully complied wi IS such laws; Provided also, That u Q, section shall not be construed IT. affecting any rights as to the locati' of soldiers certificates heretofore issu H. under section 2306 of the Revis n- Statutes.
 I'd Sec. T. That the "act to provi of additional regulations for homeste Id and pre-emption entries of pub 70 lands" approved March 3, 1879, sh; ie 5e not be construed to forbid the taxi n of testimony for final proof within t
 days following the day advertised ly upon which such final proof shall te made, in cases where accident or | IS avoidable delays have prevented t oe applicant or witnesses from ms 0A ing such proof on the date specified
 Sec. 8. That nothing in this so shall be construed as suspending, ar pealing, or in any way rendering k operative the provisions of the act ar titled "An act to provide for the C
 posal of abandoned and useless m O.. tary reservations" approved July ,e. 1884.
 Mr. A. N. Goudley returned w Ino nesday from Phenix, where he WI Inf to purchase beef steers for J. M. Jon ,on the San Francisco butcher. He stat however, that he made no purcha n, as very few among the many h +o, dreds of cattle that have been fed
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