Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-01-28
GENERAL LAND
OFFICE RULING.
Circular Relative To Assignment
Of Homestead Entries Within
Reclamation Projects, Amend
ing Circular OF September -,
1910.

U. S. Reclamation Service.
Sirs The circular entitled In
structions under reclamation acts
of June II, %, and Is, 1910, rela
tive to entry, assignment, leave
OF absence, etc, approved Septem
Der ID, 1910, is hereby amended
by substituting for that portion
of the circular relating to the act
of June %, 1910, SUPRA, the
following:
"The act approved June %,
1910, entitled An act providing
that entrymen for homesteads
within reclamation projects may
assign their entries upon satisfac'
tory proof of residence, improve
ment, and cultivation for five
years the same as though said
entry had been made under the
original homestead act public,
No. 243), reads as follows
Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives OF
the United States Of America in
Congress assembled, That from
and after the filing with the Com
missioner of the General Land
Office of satisfactory proof OF
residence, improvement, and cul-
tivation for the five years requlr-
ed by law, persons who have or
shall make homestead entries
within reclamation projects under
the provisions of the act of June
seventeenth, nineteen hundred
and two, may assign such entries
or amy part thereof, to other per-
sons, and such assignees, upon
submitting proof of the reclama-
ton of the lands and upon pay
ment of the charges apportloned
against the same as provided In
the said act Of June seventeenth,
nineteen hundred and two, may
receive from the United States a
patent for the lands: Provided,
That all assignments made under
the provisions of this act shall
be subject to the limitations, cha
ges, terms, and conditions OF the
reclamation act.
Under the provisions of this
act persons who have made or
may make homestead entries sub
ject to the reclamation act may
assign their entries in their en-
tirety at amy time after filing i'm
this office satisfactory proof OF
residence, improvements, and cul-
tivation for the five years requlr-
ed by the ordinary provisions OF
the homestead law. The act also
provides for the assignment OF
homestead entries in part, but
such assignm ents, if made prior
to the establishment of farm I'M
it's, must be made in strict accord
ance with the legal subdivisions
of the public survey, and ii made
after such units are established
must conform thereto, except as
hereinafter provided.
"In cases where the entry In
wolves two or more farm units,
the entryman may file an cleo
tom as to which farm unit he
will retain, and he may assign
and transfer to qualified asslg-
nee any farm unit or farm units
entirely embraced within the or
iginal entry. If an election by
the entryman to conform to
farm unit be filed and no assign
ment made of the remainder OF
the entry, the entry will be con-
formed to the farm unit selected
for retention and Cancelled as to
the remainder. Assignments OF
parts of established farm units
will be allowed only after report
by the project engineer to the
department that the farm unit
as proposed to be divided or as
capable of adjustment in connec-
ton with surrounding lands will
make two or more units each ca
pable of supporting family, the
report to be accompanied with
plats describing the amended
farm units. Such plats will be
submitted by the Director Of the
Reclamation Service to the Sec
rotary of the Interior for appro-
val, and, when approved by him,
will be forwarded to the Commls-
sioner of the General Land OF
flee for transmission to the local
land office with appropriate IN
structions; the assignment Of the
lands embraced within ONE of the
farm units so established to be
allowed only after proper show
ing of the qualifications of the
| assignee. the filing of Water-rlght