The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-05-18

Your Trend TRUMP.
or Interest to Homesteaders.
An Act to withdraw Certain Public Lands
from Private Entry. and for
Other Purposes.
SEC. 1. That from and after the
passage of this act no public lands
of the United States, except those
in the State of Missouri, shall be
subject to 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 entry OF
not exceeding one-quarter section
of public land subject to such entry,
such previous filing or entry to the
contrary Notwithstanding: but this
right shall not apply to persons
who perfect title to lands under the
pre-emption or homestead laws al
ready initiated; provided, that all
presumption settlers upon the pub
lie 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 respec-
tive claims under the homestead
law Notwithstanding they may have
heretofore had the benefit of such
law, but such settlers who perfect
title to such claims under the home
stead law shall not thereafter be
entitled to enter other lands under
the a,re-emption or 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 sec
rotary of the interior may prescribe,
that any settler upon the public
domain under existing law is una
bic by reason of total or partial
destruction or failure of crops,
sickness, or other unavoidable cas-
ualty, to secure a support for him.
self, herself, 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
fled for q period not exceeding one
year at any 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 residence
required by law.
SEC. 4. That the price of all sec
tions and parts of sections of the
public lands within the limits of
the portions of the several grants
of lands to aid in the construction
of railroads which have been here
tofore and which may hereafter be
forfeited, which were by the act
making such grants or have since
been increased to the double mimi
mum price, and also of all lands
within the limits of any such rail-
road grant, but not embraced in
such grant, lying adjacent to and
coterminous with the portions of
the line of any such railroad which
shall not be completed at the date
of this act, is hereby fixed at one
dollar and twenty-five cts per acre.
SEC. 5. 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 origi-
nal entry which shall not, with the
land first entered and occupied ex-
coed in the aggregate one hundred
and sixty acres, without proof of
residence upon and cultivation of
the additional entry; and it final
proof of settlement and cultivation
has been made for 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