Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1909-03-26
Congressman Monde|I's 320-Acre
Homestead Bill is Now a Law
larger homesteads
Can Now be &c.
cured.

of Wyoming. Recently the mea-
sure passed both houses of con-
gress, and having received the sig-
nature of President Roosevelt is
now law. The text of the mea-
sure follows:
Section /. That any person who
is qualified entryman under the
homestead laws of the United
States may enter, by legal SUBJ
divisions, under the provisions of
this act, in the states of Colorado,
Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah,
Washington and Wyoming and the
territories of Arizona and New
Mexico, 800 acres or less, of non
mineral, non-irrigable, unreserved
and unappropriated surveyed pub
lie lands which do not contain mer-
charitable timber, located in a rea-
sonable compact body, and not over
one and a half miles in extreme
length. Provided, that no land shall
be subject to entry until such lands
shall have been designated by the
secretary of the interior as not
being in his opinion susceptible of
successful irrigation at reason
able cost from any know source of
water supply.
Section 2. That any person ap-
plying to enter land under the pro-
visions Of this act shall make and
subscribe, before the proper off,
Gals, an affidavit as required by
section 1890 Of the revised statutes
and in addition thereto shall make
affidavit that the land sought to be
entered is Of the character describ-
ed in section l of this act and shall
pay the fees now required to be
paid under the homestead laws.
Secion 3. That any homestead
entryman of lands of the character
herein described, upon which final
proof has not been made, shall
have the right to enter public
lands, subject to the provisions of
this act contiguous to his former
entry which shall not, together
with the original entry exceed 800
acres, aad residence upon and cul-
tivation Of the original entry shall
be deemed as residence upon and
cultivation of the additional entry.
Section 4. That at the time of
making final proof, as provided
in ssstisn 1921 Of the revised
satitutes, the entryman under this
act shall, in addition to the proofs
and affidavits required under the
said section, prove by two credit
able witness that at least one
eighth of the area embraced in his
entry was continuously cultivated
to agricultural crops other than
native grasses beginning with the
second year Of the entry, and at
least one-fourth of the area en-
braced in the entry was so continu-
ously cultivated beginning with the
third year of the entry.
Section 5. That nothing herein
contained shall be held to affect the
right of qualified entryman to
make homestead entry in the states
named in section one of this act,
under the provisions of section
2259 Of the revised statutes, but
no person who has made entry un-
der this act shall be entitled to
make homestead entry under the
provisions Of said section, and no
entry under this act shall be COM
muted.
Section 6. That whenever the
secretary of the interior shall find
that any tracts of land, in the state
of Utah subject to entry under this
act, do not have upon them such a
sufficient supply Of water suitable
for domestic purposes as would
make continuous residence upon
the lands possible, he may, in his
discretion, designate such tracts of
land, not to exceed in the aggre-
gate 100000 acres, and hereafter
they shall be subject to entry under
this act without the necessity of
residence. Provided, that in such
event the entryman on any such
entry shall cultivate in good faith
not less than one-eighth of the en-
tire area of the entry during the