The Parker post., 1912-06-22
LAWS
FOR SETTLERS
THREE YEARS in WHICH TO
MAKE FINAL PROOF.
Absence From Homestead Every
Year if Desired by Entry
man Now Permitted.

The following is the text of the
new three-year homestead law, re-
Gently signed by President Taft. The
act amends section twenty-five hun
dred and ninety-one and sectiontwen-
ty-two hundred and ninety-seven of
the revised statutes of the United
States relating to homesteads
Section 2291. No certificate, how
ever, shall be given or patent is-
sued therefor until the expiration of
three years from the date of such
entry; and if at the expiration of
such time, or at any time within two
years thereafter, the person making
such entry, or if he be dead his Wi
dow, or i'm case of her death his
heirs or deviSee, or in case of
widow making such entry her heirs
or devisee, in case OF her death, prove
by himself and by two credible wit
nesses that he, she, or they have
a habitable house upon the lend and
have actually resided upon and cul-
three years succeeding the time of
filing the affidavit, and makes affi-
davit that no part of such land has
bee1 allenated, except as provided
in section twenty-five hundred and
eighty-eight, and that he, she, or
they will bear true allegiance to the
government of the United States,
then in such case he, she, or they, if
at that time citizens of the United
States, shall be entitled TO patent,
as in other cases provided by law:
cal land office notice of the begin
'rrihIg OF such absence, THE eiTtr y1rra1l
shall be entitled to a continuous leave
of absence from the land for a per
iod not exceeding five months lin
each year after establishing residence
and upon the Termination of such
absence the entryman shall file notice
of such termination in the local land
office, but in case of Communication
the fourteen months actual resi-
dence as now required by law must
be shown, and the person committing
must be at the time citizen of the
United States: Provided That when
the person making entry dies before
the offer of final proof those succeed
| ~,
entryman had complied with the law
in all respects to the date of his
death and that they have since COM
piled with the law din all respects, as
would have been required of the en-
tryman had he lived, excepting that
they are relieved from amy require
ment of residence upon the land
Provided further, That the entryman
shall, in order to comply with the
requirm ents of cultivation herein pro
vided for, cultivate not less than
one-sixteenth of the area of his en-
try, beginning with the second year
of the entry, and not less than ONE
eighth, beginning with the third year
of the entry, and until final proof,
except that in the case of entries UNI
der section six of the enlarged home
stead law double the area of cultiva-
ton herein provided shall be reqIir-
ed, but the secretary of the interior
may, upon a satisfactory showing,
under rules and regulations prescrib-
ed by him, reduce the required area
of cultivation: Provided, That the
above provision as to cultivation shall
not apply to entries under the Act of
April twenty eighth, nineteen hundred
and four, commonly known as the
Kinkaid act, or entries under the
act of June seventeenth, nineteen
hundred and two, commonly known
as the reclamation Act, and that the
provisions of this section relative to
the homestead period shall apply to
all unprotected entries as Well as
entries hereafter made upon which
residence is required Provided,
That the secretary of the interior
shall, Within sixty days after the
passage OF this act, send a copy of
the same to each homestead entry
man of record who may be affected
thereby by ordinary mail to his last
known address, and any such entry
man may, by giving notice Within
one hundred and twenty days after
the passage of this Act, by register
ed letter to the register and receiver
of the local land office, elect to make
proof upon his entry under the law
under which the same was made with
GNOo+i1rod or Dono