The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1891-04-03

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fected and patented under the provis
ions OF said act, as amended by thi!
act, so far as applicable; and all act.
and parts OF acts in conflict with thi.
act + hereby repealed.
''Sec. z. That any time after filing
the declaration. and within the period
of four years thereafter, upon making
satisfactory proof to the register anG
the receiver of tie reclamation ant
cultivation of said land to the extern
and cost and in the manner aforesaid,
and substantially in accordance with
the plans herein provided for. and thai
he or she is a citizen of the United
States. and upon payment to the re
ceiver of the additional sum of 81 pei
acre of said land, a patent shall issue
therefor to the applicant or his as,
signs; but no person or association o.
persons shall hold by assignment O,
otherwise, prior to the issue of patent,
more than 800 acres of such arid OF
desert lands, but this section shall moi
apply to entries made or initiated prior
to the approval of this act: Provided,
however, That additional proofs may
be required at any time within the pc.
riod prescribed by law, and that the
claims or entries made under this OF
any preceding act shall be subject tc
contests, as provided by the law relat.
ing to homestead cases. for illegal in.
ception, abandonment, or failure to
comply with the requirements of law,
and upon satisfactory proof thereof
shall be Cancelled, and the lands, and
moneys paid therefor shall be forfeited
to the United States.
Sec. s. That the provisions of the
act to which this is an amendment, and
the amendments thereto shall apply to
and be in force in the State of Colora-
do, as well as the states named in the
original act; and no person shall be
entitled to make entry of desert land
except he be a resident citizen of the
state or territory in which the land
sought to be entered is located"
Sec. 3. That section 22SS of the Re-
vised statutes be amended so as to read
as follows:
Sec. 22SS. Any bona fide settler
under the presumption, homestead, or
other settlement law shall have the
right to transfer, by warranty against
his own acts, any portion of his claim
for church, cemetery, or school pur-
poses, or for the right of way of rail-
roads, canals, reservoirs, Or bitches for
or drainage across it; and
the transfer for such public purposes
shall in no way vitiate the right to
complete and perfect the title of his
claim.
Sec. 4. That chapter 4 of title
XXXII, excepting sections 2275, 2276,
1886 OF the revised statutes. of the
United States, and all other laws al
presumption of the public lands
of the United States, are hereby re-
pealed, but all bona fde claims lawful
ly initiated before the passage of this
act, under any of said provisions of
law SO repealed, may be perfected upon
due compliance with law in the same
manger, upon the same terms and con-
ditions, and subject to the same limita-
tons, forfeitures, and contests, as if
this act had not been passed.
Sec. 5. That sections 22S9 and 1920,
in said chapter numbered 5 of the re-
vised statutes, be and the same are
hereby, amended. SO that they shall
read as follows:
''Sec. 22S9. Every person who is the
head OF a family. Or who has arrived
at the age of twenty-one years, and is
citizen of the United States, or who
has filed his declaration of intention to
become such, as required by the ma
laws, shall be entitled to
enter one quarter-section, Or a less
quantity, of unappropriated public
lands, to be located in a body in con-
to the legal Subdivisions Of the
public lands; but no person who is the
proprietor of more than 16O acres of
land in any state or territory shall ac-
luire any right under the homestead
law. And every person owning and re-
on land may. under the provi-
of this section, enter other land
lying contiguous to his land, which
shall not. with the land so already
owned and occupied, exceed in the ag-
gregate 160 acres.
Sec. 1890. That any person apply
to enter land under the preceding
section shall first make and subscribe
before the proper officer and file in the
proper land Office an affidavit that he
she is the head of a family, or is
over twenty-one years OF age, and that
such application is honestly and in good
made for the purpose of actual
and cultivation, and not for
the benefit of any other person, per-
sons, OR corporation, and that he OR
she will faithfully and honestly en-
ieavor TO comply with all the require
ments of law as to settlement, resi-
ience, and cultivation necessary to &C
luire title to the land applied for; that
be or she is not acting as agent of any
corporation, or syndicate in
making such entry. nor in collision
with any person, corporation, orsyndi-
cate to give them the benefit of the
land entered, or any part thereof, Or
timber thereon; that he or she
does not apply to enter the same for
the purpose ct speculation, but in good
faith to obtain a home for himself or
herself, and that he or she has not di-
or indirectly made, and will not
make, any agreement or contract in
anv manner, with any person or per-