The Springfield herald., 1906-02-02

designate and exclude from entry under
this Act the land which in his opinion
st may be practicable to irrigate or
farm and cultivate as Aforesaid, and
shall thereafter, from time to time,
open TO entry under this Act any OF the
land so excluded which Upon further in
yestigation he may conclude can not be
practically irrigated or farmed md cul-
tivated in the manner aforesaid.
Sec. 2. That former homestead
entry within the area above described
shall not be bar to an entry under
this Act of a tract which, together with
the farmer entry, shall not exceed six
hundred and forty acres, and any home
stead settler within the territory above
described whose claim has not passed
to final entry at the time this Act shall
become operative may have the pr;vi-
lege Of relinqaishing such claim, and
may thereupon make new homestead
under this Act Of not to exceed six hNn-
dred and forty acres.
SEC. 8. That settler under the
homestead laws of the United States,
within the territory above described,
who owns and occupies the land hereto
fore entered by him or whose claim has
not passed to final entry may, under the
provisions of this Act and subject 70 it's
conditions, enter other lands contiguous
to his homestead entry which shall not,
with the land 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 residence
upon the additional land 80 entered,
but final entry shall not be allowed of
such additional land until five years af-
ter first entering the same. Any for
mer homestead settler whose entry was
made prior to January first, nineteen
hundred and six, and who shall be en-
titled to an additional entry under this
section shall have, for thirty days after
the homestead provisions of this Act
become operative, the preference right
to make such additional entry, and all
conflicts under the preference right
hereby conferred shall be equitable ad-
justed by the Secretary of the Interior.
Sec. 4. That the fees and commits
sions on all entries under this Act shall
be uniformly the same as those charged
under the present law for maximum
entry at the minimum price. That the
Communication provisions Of the home
stead laws shall not apply to entries un-
der this Act, and that at the time of
making final proof the entryman must
prove afirmatively that he has resided
upon the land continuously for five
years and has placed upon the land en-
tered permanent improvements of the
value of not less than one dollar and
fifty cents per acre for each acre in
cluded in his entry, which improvements
must be made to the extent of at least
thirty cents per acre per annum, and
proof thereof and of continuous resi-
dence, save in such cases as excepted
under section three hereof, shall be
made to the local land office each year,
under such regulations as the Secretary
of the Interior may prescribe in that
behalf: Provided, That improvements
made in any one year ard proof thereof
as required by such regulations in ex-
cess of thirty cents per acre per annum
shall apply on the requirements for SUBJ
sequent years: Provided further, That
when homesteader under the provis-
ions of this Act shall have served as a
private soldier or officer in the Army,
Navy, or Marine Corps of the United
States during the war of the rebellion, I
or during the war with Spain or the
Philippine insurrection, and shall have
been honorably discharged, the time
which such homestead settler has so
served shall be deducted from the time
required to perfect title;
or if discharged on account of wounds
received or disability incurred in the
line of duty, then the term of enlist
ment shall be deducted from the time
herein required to pecfect title, without
reference to the length of time he may
have served; but no patent shall issue
to any homestead settler who has not
resided upon, improved and cultivated
his homestead for period of at least
three years after he shall have COM
menced his improvements, which i'm
provements shall be in the aggregate
of no less value than one dollar and fif-
ty cents per acre.