Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1905-01-19
THE MARTIN BILL.
!, ext Of the 64O-Acre Homestead Bill
Now Before Congress.

The following is the full text
If the bill introduced in the house
# representatives by Congress
nan E. w. Martin for the grant
ug of GAO acres to each home
teader west of the Missouri river
Ia this state:
A bill to amend the homestead
avs IS to certain unappropriated
md anreserved lands in South
Dakota.
Be it enacted by the senate and
nd honse of representatives of
he United States of America in
ongress assembled.
That from and after sixty days
fter the approval of this act en-
ries made under the homestead
avs in the state of South Dako-
d, west of the Missouri river and
ot within the forest reserves or
ther reservations. may equal but
hall not exceed IL area six hum
red and forty acres, and shall be
nearly compact in form as posi-
lie and IN no event over two miles
extreme length, provided, that
here shall be excluded from the
rovisions of this act such lands
,ithin the territory herein de-
eribed as in the opinion of the
ecretary of the interior it may be
easonably practicable to irr1gate
nder the national irrigation law
by private enterprise and that
aid secretary shall, prior 10 the
ate above mentioned, designate
nd exclude from entry under this
ct the lands which in his opinion
may be practicable to irrigate
5 aforesaid, and shall thereafter
om time to time, open to entry
nder this act any of the lands
Kcluded which upon further in
estigation he may conclude can
pt be practically irrigated in the
4anner aforesaid; and, provided,
lat the lands in Gregory county
outh Dakota, opened TO settle
[ent under and by virtue of the
It of congress approved April
), 1904, shall not be subject to
he provisions of this act.
Sec. 2. That former home
cad entry shall not be bar to
lie entry under the provisions of
his act of a tract which together
ith the former entry shall not
Kceed six hundred and forty
cres.
Sec. 8. That the entrymen un-
er the homestead laws of the
n1ted States, within the terri
pry above described, who own
nd occupy the land heretofore
altered by them, may, under the
rovisions of this act and subject
its conditions, enter other land
pntiguous to their homestead en-
" which shall not, with the land
lready entered. owned and occu-
led, exceed in the aggregate 64C
.res; and residence upon the
tiginal homestead shall be ac-
opted as equivalent to residence
pom the additional land so en-
sred, but final entry shall not be
lowed of such additional land
util five years after first entering
he same. Any former homestead
1trymen who shall be entitled tc
additional entry under this
ctiou shall have for ninety days
Eter the passage of this act, the
referential right to make addi
onal entry, as herein provided
Sec. 4. That the tees and com
iss1ons on all entries under this
It shall be uniformly the same
those charged under the pres
1t law for a maximum entry a
minimum price. That the com
utation provisions of the home
cad law shall not apply to en-
les under this act, and at thu
me of making final proof thu
ptryman must prove afhrmativel,
lat he has placed upon the lane
ntered permanent improvement
the value of not less than on
Pillar and twenty-five cents pc