Nevada County picayune., 1889-04-17
NEW HOMESTEAD LAW.


 try. and for other purposes;
 Be it enacted by the Senate and
 House of Representatives of the
 Tinted States of America in Con
 uress assembled, That from ana
 after the passage oi tms act no
 public lands of the United states
 except those in the >tiie ot Ais-
 souri. shall be subject to pfivate
 entry.
 Sec. ,. That any person who has not heretofore perfected title to q track of land of which he has made entry under the homestead law, may make homestead entry of not eN- eecding one-quarter section ot Public land subject to such entry, such pre- yious filing or entry to the contrary notwithstanding but this right shall not apply to persons who perfect title to lands under the pre-emptlon or homestead laws already initiated: Provided. that all prc-emption set tiers upon the public lands whose claims have been initiated 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 home stead law notwithstanding they may have heretofore had the benefit of such law. but such settlers who per feet titles to such claims under the homestead law shall not thereafter be entitled to enter other lands un- der the pre-emption or homestead laws of the United States.
 See. 3. That whenever 1t shall be made to appear to the register amt receiver of any public land office, under such regulations as the Seere- tary of the Interior may prescribe that any settler upon the pubic do- main under existing law is unable by reason of total or partial destruc- tion or failure of crops, sickness, or other unavoidable casualty, to secure a support for himself her self, or those dependent upon him or her upon the lands settled upon, then such register and receiver may grant to such settler a leave of absence from the claim upon which he or she has filed for a 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- dencc required by law.
 Sec 1. 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 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 O. any such railroad grant, but not em braced in such grant lylng adjacen to and coterminous with the portion of the line of any such railroad whcl shall not be completed at the date 0 this act, if hereby fixed at one dolla and twenty-five cents per acre.
 Sec. ,. That any homestead set tier who has not heretofore cntere' less than one-quarter section of lan' may enter other and additional lam lying contagious to the original entry which shall not, with the land frs enter and occupied, exceed in tn aggregate one hundred and siNt acres without proof of rcsidenc upon and cultiuation of the addi tional entry; and if final proof c settlement and cultivation has bee made for the original entry, when tn additional entry is made, then tn patent shall issue without further proof: Provided, That this sectio shall not apply to or for the bencii of any person who at the date e making application for entry here under does not own and occupy tn lands covered by his original entry And provided, That if the origina entry should fail for any reason prior to patent or should appear t be illegal or fraudulent, the addi tional entry shall not be permitted or if having been initiated shall b cancelled.
 See. 6. That every person en titled, under the provisions of tn