Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-03-11
ENLARGED HOMESTEAD

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larged homestead at this session. Z
will be remembered that at the las
session the western members conferred
and drafted bill increasing TIL
homestead to 800 acres. 1t passed the
house and senate, the latter body
putting on some amendments which
were not acceptable to the house. Con.
ference committees were appointed tt
adjust the difference but their report
has been just made and it is com
plete one. The report has. been pre-
sented to the two houses, and if OBJ
lection does not crop out the act will
be passed before the session closes.
As agreed to by the conferees, who
were Senator Smoot, Clark and Nc
Laurin and Representatives MondelI,
Volstead and Robinson, the act reads
as follows:
"That any person who is qualified
entryman under the homestead law
of the United States may enter, by
legal subdivisions, under the provi-
slons Of this act, in the states of Col
orado, 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 public
lands which do not contain merchant
able timber, located in a reasonable
compact body, and not over II mile,
in extreme length; provided, that no
land shall be subject to entry under
the provision Of this act until such
lands shall have been designated by
the secretary Of the interior as not be-
ing in his opinion, susceptible of
successful irrigation at reasonable
cost from any known source Of water
supply.
E'sec. 2. 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 1920 Of the revis-
ed statutes, and in addition thereto
shall make affidavit that the land
sought to be entered is Of the charac-
ter described in section l of this act,
and shall pay the fees now required to
be paid under the homestead laws.
Sec. 3. That any homestead 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 pro-
vision of this act, contiguous to his
former entry which shall not together
with the original entry exceed 800
acres, and residence upon and Guilt
walton of the original entry shall be
deemed as residence upon and cultiva-
ton of the additional entry.
"Sec. 4. That the time of making
final proofs, as provided in section
22O1 of the revised statutes, the entry
man under this act shall, in addition
to the proofs and afidavits required
under the said section, prove by two
credible witnesses 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 that at least
of the area embraced in
the entry was so continuously begin
ming with the third year Of the entry.
'.sec. 5. That nothing herein con-
tanned shall be held to affect the right
Of qualified entryman to make home
stead entry in the states named in sec
ton | Of this act, under the provisions
IF section 2289 of the revised statutes,
out no person who has made entry
under this act shall be entitled to take
homestead entry under the provisions
If said section, and no entry under
this act shall be committed.
'tSec. 6. That whenever the secre-
AIRY Of the interior shall find that any
tracts of land in the state of Utah, {
subject to entry under this act, do not $
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