The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-05-10
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THE, NEW LAND LAW.

The following is the land law
enacted by the recent u. S. con-
gress at Washington City:
IAN act to withdraw certain
public lands from private entry,
and other purposes.
Be it enacted, etc. Section 1.
That from and after the passage
ol' this act no public lands of the
United States, except those in the
state of Missouri, shall be subject
t. private entry.
Sec. 2. That any person who
has not heretofore perfected title
to a tract of land of which he has
made entry under the homestead
law, may make a homestead en-
try of not exceeding one-quarter
section of public land subject to
such entry, snch previous filing or
entry to the contrary notwithstand-
ing; but this right shall apply to
persons who perfect title to lands
under the pre- emption or home
stead laws already initiated. Pro
vided, that all sellers upon the
public lands whose claims have
been initiated prior to the passage
OF this act may change such en-
tries to homestead entries and pro-
ceed to perfect their titles to their
respective claims under the home
stead law, Notwithstanding they
may have heretofore had the bene-
fit Of such law, but such settlers
who perfect title to claims under
the homestead law shall not there
after be entitled to enter other
lands under the pre-emption OF
homestead laws of the United
States.
Sec. 3. That whenever 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 under existing
law is unable by reason of total
ar partial destruction or failure OF
crops, sickness or other unavoid-
able casualty, to secure support
for himself or herself, or those de-
pendent upon him or her upon the
lands settled upon, then such regis
ter 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 said absence. Provided, that
the time of such actual absence
shall not be deducted from the ac-
tual residence required by law.
Sec. 4. That the price of all Sec
tions of the public lands within
the limits of the portions of the
several grants of land 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 increas-
ed to the double minimum price
and, also of all lands within
the limits of any such railroad
grant, but not embraced in such
grant lying adjacent to and CO.
terminous with the portions of the
lines of any such railroad which
shall not be completed at date Of
this act, is hereby fixed at $125
per acre.
Sec. 5. That any homestead
settler who has heretofore entered
hess than one quarter section of
land may enter other and addition
al land lying contiguous to the
original entry, which shall not,
with the first land entered and oc-
eupied, exceed in. the aggregate
100 acres, without proof of resi-
dence upon and cultivation of the
original entry, when the additional
entry is made then the patent
shall issue without further proof.
Provided, that this section shall
not apply to Or for the benefit of
any person who. at the date of
making application, for entry here
under, does not own and occupy
the lands covered by his original
entry. And provided, that if the
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