The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1912-06-21
FULL TEXT OF NEW LAW
permitting Homestead Proof After
Three Years. Residence


| Three Years Residence. X
The full text of the three. yea
homestead bill, enacted by congres.
Is as follows:
An Act To amend section twent,
'"o hundred and ninety.one an
sectlon twenty-five hundred an,
u'oety'seven of the Revised Statute
~ 'ne United States relating to home
steaGs. a 49,
be 1t enacted by the Senate ant
mouse OF Representatives of tn,
United States Of America in Congress,
assembled, That section twenty. tw,
hundred and ninety one and section
twenty-five hundred and ninety
seven OF the Revised Statutes of the
ouiteo States be amended to read as
follows:
SEC. 229l. No certificate, how
ever' snail be given or patent issued
'ue'elor until the expiration of three
years from the date OF such entry.
ana II at the expiration Of such time
oF at any time within two wears
thereafter, the person making such
entry or II he be dead his widow. or
" case OF her death ais heirs or
ueVlsee, or 10 case Of widow making
sucn entry her heirs or devisee. in
case OF her death, proves by himself
ana by two credible witnesses that he.
Sne, or they have a habitable house
upon the land and have actually re.
slued upon and cultivated the same
Tor the term Of three years succeeding
tne time OF filing the affidavit, and
makes affidavit that no part of such
'and has been alienated, except as
provided 10 section twenty-five hun
dred and eighty-eight, and that he.
she, or they will bear true allegiance
to the Government Of the United
states, then 10 such case be, she, or
they, II at that time citizens of the
United States, shall be entitled to A
patent, as ir other cases provided by
law: Provided, That upon fling in
the local land Office notice of the be-
ginning of such absence, the entry.
man shall be entitled to a continuous
leave OF absence from the land for a
period not exceeding five months in
each year after establishing residence,
and upon the termination of such
absence the entryman shall file a
notice Of such termination in the
local land office, but in case of
Communication the fourteen months
actual residence 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 succeeding to the entry must
show that the entryman had COM
piled with the law In all respects, as
would have been required Of the entry.
man had he lived, excepting that
they are relieved from any require
ment of residence upon the land:
Provided further, That the entryman
shall, In order to comply with the
requirements of cultivation herein
provided for, cultivate not less than
one sixteenth Of the area Of his entry,
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 under sec
tion six of the enlarged d-homestead
law double the area of cultivation
herein provided shall be required, but
the Secretary of the Interior may,
| upon a satisfactory showing, under
rules and regulations prescribed by
him, reduce the required area of
cultivation: Provided, That the above
proyison as to cultivation shall not
apply to entries under the Act of
| Aprll twenty.eighth, nineteen hun
dred 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 uron which
residence is required: Provided. That
the Secretary of the Interior shall,
within sixty days after the passage ol
,his Act. send copy of the same to
o.cb homestead entryman of record
who may b. affected therehY' oy
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