The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-06-12

each year after establishing resi-
dence, 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 COM
mutation the fourteen months ac-
tual residence as now required by
law must be shown, and the person
committing must be at the time cit
izen 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 to
the date Of his death, and that they
have since complied with the law In
all respects, as would have been re-
quired by the entryman had he lived,
excepting that they are relieved
from any requirement of residence
upon the land; Provided further, that
the entryman shall, in order to COM
ply with the requirements of cultiva-
ton 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 section six of the en-
larged homestead laws, double the
area of cultivation herein provided
shall be required, but the Secretary
of the Interior may, upon satisfac-
tory showing, under rules and regu-
latiOns prescribed by him, reduce the !
required area of CIVILIZATIONS; Provid-
ed, that the above provision as to
cultivation shall not apply to entries
under the act of April twenty-eight,
nineteen hundred and four, common
ly known as the Kinkaid Act, or en-
tries under the act of June seven
teenth, nineteen hundred and two,
commonly known as the reclamation
act, and that the provisions of this
section relative to the Homestead per-
iod shall apply to all unprotected en-
tries as we'll as entries hereafter
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 copy of the same to each home
stead entryman of record who may
be affected thereby, by ordinary mail
to his last known address, and any
such entryman may, by giving no.
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 provis-
ions of this act"
"Sec. 2297. If, at any time after
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 reg
lister of the land Office that the per-
son having filed such affidavit 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
event the land so entered shall re-
vert to the government; Provided,
that the three years period of resi-
dence herein fixed shall date from the
time of establishing. actual perma-
| nent residence upon the land. And
provided further, that where there
may be climatic reasons, sickness, or
other unavoidable cause, the commits
sioner of the general land Office may,
! in his discretion, allow the settler
twelve months from the date of fling
in which to commence his residence
on said land, under such rules and
regulations as he may prescribe"
Approved by the president, June s.,
1912. ..:@. s. +