Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1912-04-18
new HOMESTEAD Law LIKELY
Three Year Homestead Bill Will
Undoubtedly be Adopted-A
Copy of the Law

question but that the three
year homestead bill will become
law. 1t was passed by the SEN
ate and sent to the house where
it was also passed, with a few
minor changes and is now in the
conference committee, and those
in position to know claim it will
be signed by the president at an
early date. Below is a copy Of the
law:
That section twenty-five hun
dred and ninety -one and section
twenty-five hundred and ninety
seven of the Revised Statutes
of the United States be amended
to read as follows:
"Sec. 2291. No certificate,
however, shall be given or patent
issued therefore until the expira-
tion of three years from the date
of such entry and if at the expira-
tion 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 de-
visee, or in case of a widow MAX
ing such entry her heirs or devi-
see, in ease of her death, proves by
two credible witnesses that he,
she, or they have a habitable
house upon the land and have re-
sided upon or cultivated the same
for the term of three years sue
ceeding the time of filing the af-
fidavit, and makes affidavit that
no part of such land has been
alienated, except as provided in
section twenty-five hundred and
lightweight, 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 any time citizens of
the United States, shall be entitl-
ed to patent, as in other cases
provided by law: Provided,
That the presence f said entrymal
or of his family on the land for
seven months in each calendar
year shall be held sufficient to
constitute residence required by
this action, but in case of commu-
tation the fourteen months act
ual residence as now required by
law must be shown: Provided,
That when the person making
entry dies before the offer of fl
nal proof those succeeding to the
entry must show that the entry
man had complied with the law
in all respects, as would have
been required of the entryman
had he lived, excepting that they
are relieved from any require
| mentS of residence uDOn the
| land.i
See. 2297. If, at any time af-
ter the filing of the affidavit as
required in section twenty-five
hundred and ninety and before
the expiration of the three years
mentioned in section twenty-five
hundred and ninety-one, it is
proved, after due notice to the
settler, to the satisfaction of the
register of the land office that
the person having filed such af-
fidavit has failed to establish
residence within six months after
the date Of entry, or abandoned
the land for more than six months
at any time, then and in that ev-
ent the land so entered shall
revert to the government: Pro-
vided, That the three years peri
cd Of residence herein fixed shall
date from the time Of establish
ing actual permanent residence u,
on the land"
| Sec. 2. That all existing pen.
ding entries requiring residence
upon the land under the home
stead laws shall be perfected un-
der and according to the terms
| Of this Act.