The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1908-03-18
A new LAND BILL

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Washington, March l5.--The enlarged
| homestead bill agl eed on by the confer
men recently, and introduced In the
house by Representative Mondell, OF
| Wyoming. chairman Of the public lands
committee, reads as follows:
ANY person who is q qualified en-
| try man under the homestead laws OF
| the United Stats may enler by legal
subdivisions, un Ter the provisions OF
| this act, in the state of Colorado, Cali
| fornia, idaho, Iontana, Nevada, North
| Dakota, Oregt n, Utah, Washington and
| Wyoming, abd the territories of Ari-
IONA and New Mxeico, $50 acres, or less,
of non-mineral, nom irrigabie, unreseryed
and unappropriated surveyed public
lands (which do not contain merchant
able tim! er, located in a reasonably
compact body and not over one and
/ Amy person applying to enter land
under the provisions OF this act shall
make and subscribe before the proper
office an affidavit as required by sec
tioh 21so of the revised statutes, ana III
addition thereto shall make affid aFit
that the land sought to be entered II
| ot the character described In section
one of this act, and shall pay the fees
now required to be paid under the
homestead laws
| Any homestead entryman now oc-
cupying lands. of the character herein
before described, heretofore entered by
him, upon which final proof has not
been made, shall have the right to enter
public lands subject to the provisions OF
this act, lying contiguous to his former
| entry. which shall not, together with
the original entry, exceed 800 acres, and
residence upon and cultivation OF the
original entry shall be deemed az resi-
dence upon and cultivation Of the add
tional entry
'At the time of making final proof
49, provided in section 2291 OF the reyfs-
cd statutes, the entryman under this
act shall. In addition to the proofs ana
affidavits required under the said see
ton, prove by two credible witnesses
that at least one-eighth of the area en-
braced in his entry was continuously
cultivated to g.i1ultursI crops orher
than native grasses beginning with the
second year of the entry. and that at
least one quarter OF the area embraced
in the entry was continuously cult
waited, beginning with the third year OF
the entry
Nothing herein contained shall be
held to affect the right OF a qualified
enfryman to make homestead entry I'm
the states named in section one of this
act under the provisions of section zses
OF the revised stateutes, but no person
who has made entry under this act shall
be entitled to make homestead entry
under the provisions Of said section. and
1AAeiS II1S act shall he
commuted
Whenever the secretary of the in
terror sball find that any tracts OF land
subject to entry under this act do not
nave upon them such a sufficient
supply Of water suitable for domestic
purposes as would make a continuous
residence~upon the lands possible with
our serious hardship to entrymen, he tnay
In his discretion designate such tracts
OF land, and thereafter they shall b.
subject to entry under this act without
tho necessity Of residence: Provided
that In such event the area cultivated
In any such entry shall not be less than
one-e1ghth Of the entire area OF the
entry, during the second year, one
fourth during the third year, and one
half during the fourth and fifth years
after the date Of such entry