Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1904-11-25

LARGE HON ESTEADS

LARGE Ill V nj Els i IL ADS
The Bill Providing for 64O Acres of Land
for Homesteaders West of Mis-
souri, River.
The following is a copy of the Kin
kaid homestead law, which passed con.
gress and became law last April,
which applied only to western Nebras-
ka. Petitions are now at all postofhces
west of the Missouri river asking con-
gress to extend the provisions of the
bill to all this portion of South Dakota
west of the Missouri river. The petit
tions are being largely signed. The
law is as follows:
"Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assem-
bled, That from and after sixty days
after the approval of this act, entries
made under the homestead laws in the
state of Nebraska west and north Of
the following line, towit: (here comes
description of eastern boundaries)
shall not exceed in area six hundred
and forty acres, and shall be as nearly
compact in form as possible, and in no
extent over two miles in extreme
length; provided, that there shall be
excluded from tine provisions of this
act such lands within the territory
herein described as i'll the opinion of
the secretary of the interior it may be
reasonably practicable to irrigate un-
der the national irrigation law, or by
private enterprise, and that said secre-
tary shall, prior to the date above men
toned, designate and exclude from
entry under this act the lands, particu
larly along the North Platte river,
which in his opinion it may be possible
to. irrigate as aforesaid; and shall there
after, from time to time, open to entry
under this act any of the lands so eX-
cluded, which, upon further investiga
ton, he may conclude can not be
practically irrigated in the manner
aforesaid.
''.That entrymen under the home
stead laws of the United States within
that territory ABOVE described who own
and occupy the land heretofore entered
by them, may, under the provisions of
this act and subject to its conditions,
enter other lands contiguous to their
said homestead entry, which shall not,
with the land so already entered, owned
and occupied, exceed in the aggregate
six hundred and forty acres; and resi-
dence upon the original homestead
shall be accepted as equivalent to resi-
~dence upon the additional land until
five years after first entering the same.
'That the fees and commissions on
all entries under this act shall be uni
formly the same as those charged
under the present law for maximum
entry at the minimum price. That the
communication provisions of the home.
stead law shall not apply to entries
under this act, and at the time of max
ing final proof the entryman must
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upon the lands entered permanent inn
provements of the value of not less
than one dollar and twenty five cents
per acre for each acre included in his
entry; provided, that a former home
stead entry shall not be bar to the
entry under the provisions of this act
of "a tract which, together with the
former entry, shall not exceed six
hundred and forty acres; provided, that
any former homestead entryman who
shall be entitled to an additional entry
under section two of this act shall have
for ninety days after the passage of
this act the preferential right to make
additional entry as provided in said
section.
"Approved, April %, 1904"