The Lamar register., 1909-05-05
NEW HOMESTEAD LAW.
Now Ready for Filings at the Lamar
Land Office.

All Instructions and everything but
the filing blanks have been re- eived
at the Lamar land office for T. e I'll.
ing of 800 acre homesteads under the
new law. About everything in the
district except that which is under
existing bitches and the proposed
Two Buttes project is included IN
the land segregated for 800 acre I'll
iass. The orders for nnal proofs
and entries are as follows:
Final proofs must be made as IN
ordinary homestead cases. and ia
addition to the showing required OF
ordinary homestead entrymen 1. mus:
lie shown that at least one-eig 9TH OF
the area embraced in each entity has
been continuously cultivated to agri
crfblral crops other than native grass
es. beginning with the second year
OF the entry. and that at lea9- one
fourth of che arsa embraced b. thu
entry has been continuously cukiyat
et 20 agricultural crops ONE. than
native grasses. beginning with III.
third year Of the entry and &C .tial
ing to date of final proof.
Final proof submitted Oh al addi-
tiolal entry must SHOW that thIs are
o: such entry required by the act 4
he cultivated has been cultivated in
accordance with such requirement.; o.
that such part of the original eltr!
a. will. with the area cultivated in
the additional entry. aggregate the
required proportion of the combined
entries. has been cultivated in the
manner required by the act
Proof must be made on the origin
al entry within the statutory period
Of seven years from the date Of the
entry: and II II can not be shown
at that time that the cultivation has
been such as to satisfy the require
me is of the act as to both entries
It viii be necessary to submit supp
mental proof on the additional entry
at the proper time. But proof should
be made at the same time to cover
both entries in all cases where the
residence and cultivation are such as
to meet the requirements Of the act
Communication Of either original or
additional entry. made under this act
is expressly forbidden.
Homestead entries under the pro-
visions of section 22S9 OF the Revised
Statutes. for 100 acres or less. may
be made by qualified persons with
the States and Territories named up
on lands subject 10 such entry,
whether sich lands have been desig-
mated under the provisions of this
act can not afterwards make home
stead entry under the provisions OF
the general homestead law. nor can
an entryman who enters under the
general homestead law lands desig-
mated as falling within the provisions
of this act afterwards enter any
lands under this act.
person who has. since August 30.
1890, entered and acquired title to
$50 acres of land under the agricul-
nural-land laws (which is construed
to mean the timber and stone, desert
land. and homestead laws) is not
entitled to make entry under tais
act; nekher is a person who has ae-
quired title to 100 acres under the
general homestead law entitled TO
make another homestead entry under
this at. unless he comes within the
provisions of section of the act
prov iding for additional entries o.
contiguous lands, or unless enuted
to the benefits of section of the
at OF June 5. 1900 (3l Stat, eeO. OIL
section of the act of May %. 1907
(32 Stat, 20S).
II, however, a person is a qualified
entryman ulder the homestead laws
Of the United States. he may be al
lowed TO enter $50 acres under this
ac,. or such less amount as when
added to the lands previously entered
or held by him under the agricultural
land laws shall not exceed in the az