The Arizona sentinel., 1904-06-22
CIRCULAR.
Second and Additional EOm stead
 Entries-Act April 2S, 1904.

General Land Office, Washing ton, D. C., May 20, 1904.
 Registers and Receivers U. $.
 Land Offices.
 Gentlemen: Your attention is called to the provisions of an act of Congress entitled, "An act providing for second and addi- tional homestead entries and for other purposes, approved April 28, 1904 (Public-No. 200), copy of which is hereto attached.
 The first section of sad act allows any person who has there tofore made a homestead entry and was unable to perfect the same on account of some una voidable complication of his per sonal or business affairs, or on account of an honest mistake as to the character of the land, to make a second entry, providing it is shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of the Geperal Land office that he made a bona fde effort to comply with the homestead law, and that he did not rellnquish his entry or aban- don his claim for a consideration.
 A person applying to make entry under this section should 5e required to file a formal appli- cation for specific tract of land, on the regular homestead blanks, modified to show that the entry $ made under the act of April 98, 1901, and to furnish a descrip- tion Of his former entry by sec tion, township and range. or the number of the entry, and land office where made.
 He should also be required to furnish an affidavit, duly corrob erated by one OF more disinter ested witnesses, setting forth in full the complications of his per sonal or business affairs that pre- vented his perfecting title to the land covered by his first entry, or where the failure to perfect title was caused by a mistake as to the character of the land en- tered, the manner in which such mistake occurred, and the spe- cifc reasons that render the land worthless for agricultural pur- poses should be fully set forth. The affidavit should also show whether the applicant ever re- sided upon, improved or culti- vated tEe land embraced in his former entry, and if so, to what extent, and that he did not aban- don his claim thereto or relin- quish his entry for a valuable consideration.
 When such application is pre- sented you will make proper no- tationS on your records and transmit all the papers for action by the Commissioner of the Gen eraI Lani Office. You should accompany each application with your report and rrecommenda- tion in the premises
 The second section is substan- tiaIfF @ Feenactment of section , of the act of March ;, 1889 ca Stat. l., 85A, onfy modified so as to apply to entries for less than 160s acres each made after the date of the act April 28, f904), as well as those made be- fore, and provides for an addi- tional entry Of land which shall be contiguous to the land em- braced in the original entry, for which the final proof ofresidence and cultivation made on the Ori- ginal entry shall be sufficient, but of which no party shall have the benefit who does not, at the date Of his application therefor, own and occupy the land covered by his original entry, and which shall not be permitted, or if per mitted shall be canceled, if the original entry should failfo any reason prior to patent, or should appearto be illegal or fraudulent. Applicants for additional entries under this section will be requir- ed to produce evidence that they