The Glenwood post., 1912-06-22
FIRST COPY OF NEW HOME
STEAD LAW RECEIVED HERE

was a leading factor. Representative
ed in full in view of the fact that he
has not the names of all the home
steaders in Garfield county. The seq
retary of the interior is required to
furnish every homesteader copy of
the law within so days and the home
steaders are allowed four months with
make final proof under this or the old
law.
The following is the new Borah three
year statute:
'Sec. 229l. No certificate, however,
shall be given or patent issued there
for 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 widow, or in case of her death
his heirs or devisee, or in case of a
widow making such entry, her heirs or
devisee, in case Of her death, proves
by himself and by two credible witness
es that he, she, or they have a habita-
BILE house upon the land and have ac-
tually resided upon and cultivated the
same for the term of three years sue
ceeding the time Of filing the affidavit,
and makes affidavit that no part of
such land has been aleinated, except as
provided in 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, shall
be entitled to a patent, as i'll other
cases provided by law: Provided, That
upon filing in the local land office no
tice of the beginning of such absence,
the entryman shall be entitled to
continuous leave of absence from the
land for period of 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 III 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 max
ing 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 to
the date of his death and that they
have since complied with the law in
all respects, as would have been requir-
ed of the entryman had he lived, ex-
eepting that they are relieved from any
requirement of residence upon the land:
Provided further, That the entryman
shall, in order to comply with the re
quirements of cultivation herein pro
vided for, cultivate not less than one
sixteenth of the area of his entry, be-
ginning with the second year of the
ginning with the third year of the en-
try, and until final proof, except that
in the case of entries under section six
of the enlarged homestead law double
the area of cultivation herein provided
shall be required, but the secretary OF
the interior may, upon satisfactory
prescribed 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 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 re-
clamation Act, and that the provisions
of this section relative to the home
stead period shall apply to all unper'
fected entries as well as entries here
after made upon which residence is re-
quired: Provided, That the secretary
of the interior shall, within sixty days
after the passage of this Act, send Il
copy of the same to each homestead en-
tryman of record who may be affected
thereby, by ordinary mail to his last
known address, and any such entryman
may, by giving notice within one hun
dred and twenty days after the passage
of this Act, by registered 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 without regard to the
provisions Of this Act.''
"Sec. 2297. If, at any time after
the fling of the affidavit as required
in section twenty-five hundred and
ninety and before the expiration of the
three years mentioned in section TWEEN