Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1909-03-05
ENLARGED HOMESTEAD LAW
Entitled to Additional 100 Acres II Land
Aj;oins..New Settlers caa Take $40 Acres.

nomesteaders Who Haven't Proved Up are
Entitled to Additional 100 Acres II Land
Ai;oins..New Settlers Can Take $40 Acres.
The enlarged homestead bill be-
came law on February ~, 1900. 1t
applies to the states Of Montana. Col
Orado, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Wash
ington and Wyoming, and the terri
tories of Arizona and New Mexico.
The law will not be Of mucl, benefit
to the settlers in this section of Mon
tana, as the additional 100 acres must
be contiguous to the present entry.
New settlers, however, will be iii
clover, and it will not he many weeks
now until all the public land in the
LewistOwn land office district will
have been tax en. The law is as fol-
lows:
The new 32O-acre homestead law
reads as follows:
''Be it enacted by the senate and
house of representatives of the Unit
ell States Of America in congress as
sembled, that any person who is Il
qualified entryman under the home
stead laws Of the United States may
enter, by legal subdivisions, under
the provisions of this act, in the
states Of Colorado, Montana, Nevada,
Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyo-
ming, and the territories of Arizona
and New Mexico, 800 acres, or less.
Of non-mineral, nOn-irrigablp. unre-
served and unappropriated surveyed
III II: 81, =.
merchantable timber, located in Il
reasonably compact body. and not
over one and One-half miles in ex-
treme length. Provided, that no
lands shall be subject to entry under
the provisions Of this until such lands
shall have been designated by the
secretary OF the interior as not being,
in his opinion, susceptible OF success
ful irrigation at 4 reasonable cost
from amy known source of water
supply.
Sec. =. That any person applying
to enter land under the provisions of
this act shall make and subscribe be-
fore the proper officer an affidavit as
required by section 229O of the Re-
vised Statutes, and in addition there
to shall make affidavit that the land
sought to be entered is Of the char
acter described in section one of this
act, and shall pay the fees now re-
quiretl to be paid under the home
stead laws.
Sec. 3. That any mestead entry
man 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, to-
gether with the original entry, exceed
320 acres, and residence upon and
cultivation Of the original entry shall
be deemed as residence upon and cul-
tivation Of the additional entry.
Sec. !. That the time of making
final proofs rs provided in section
22o1 OF the Revised Statutes the en-
tryman under this act shall, in addi-
tiOn to the proofs and aflidavits re-
quired under the said section, prove
by two credible witnesses that at
least One-eighth of the area embraced
in his entry was continuously cult
waited to agricultural crops, other
than native grasses beginning with
the second year OF the entry, and that
ut least onr-fourth of the area en-
braced in the entry was so continrl-
ously cultivated beginning with tue
third year of the entry.
Sec. >. That nothing herein con-
tanned shall be held to affect the
right "f Il qualified entryman to m AXE
homestead entry in the states named
in section of this act under the pro-
visions OF section 22S:, Of the Revised
Statutes, but nu person who has made
entry under this act shall be entitled
to make homestead entry under the
provisions of said section, and no Ell
try made under this act shall be com
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