Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1912-05-17
\ law PASSED
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APPLIES ii III, saG.s SjSi''''e,lES
HAS aEGIl AMENDED AND M1 M,N
BE PASSED AGAIN AND BECcS
A LAW. !

have been much concerned over the |
enactment of the "three year home
stead" law which has been pending be
fore congress
The bill passed both the senate and
the house. But the house put on
several amendments which necessitated
sending it TO IA conference com mittee
of the senate and house. The com
mittee could not agree and for several
weeks the matter has been hung up.
and its final passage appeared to be
very doubtful. But word now comes
from Washington that the conference
committee has reached an agreement
and that the bill AS amendea III CON
ference will shortly pass both houses.
The house members appear to have
been victorious, as dispatches state
that the bill AS now agreed upou is ss
it passed the house, with a few amend
ments. A copy of the bin as accepted
by the conference committee is not
obtainsble, but rs it passed the house
It WAS rs follows:
Three Year Homestead BIN
"Be ii enacted by the senate and
house of representatives of the United
States of America in congress assem-.
bled, That section 229l and section 2297
Of the revised statutes of the United
States be amended to read as folliows
"See 229l No certificate, however,
shall be given or patent issued therefor
until the expiration OF three years
from the date OF such entry; aud ii 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 creditable witnesses
that he, she or they have habitabe
house upon the land aud have actually
resided upon and cultivated the same
for the term of three years succeeding
the time OF filing the affidavit, and
makes affidavit that no part Of such
| land has been alieniated except as pro-
yided in section twenty-five hundred
| 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 entltled to patent, as III other
GASES provided by law: Provided, That
the entrymen may be absent from the
land for not more than five months in
each period of one year, after estab-
fishing residence, but in case Of com.
mutation the fourteen months actual
residence rs now required by law must
be shown: Provided, That when the
person making the entry dies, before
the offer of final proof those succeeding
to the entry must show that the entry
man had complied 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
| required of the entlyman had he lived,
excepting that they are relieved from
auy requirement of residence upon the
land.
"aec. 2297 If, at any time after the
filing of the affidavit, as required in
section twenty two hundred and ninety
and before the expiration of the three
years mentioned in section twenty wo
hundred pinety-one, it is proved, after
due notice to the settler to the salts
faction of the register of the land office
that the person having fled such affi.
davit 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
III that event the land SO entered shall
revert to the government: Provided,
That the three years period Of residence
herein fled shall date from the time Of
establishing act tilei per III amen residence
upon the len1: And Provided further,
That where there may te climatic
reasons, sickness, or other unavoid
able cause, the commissioner of the
general land office may in his disore
tion, allow the settler twelve months
from the date Of fling in which to com.
mence his residence on said land, under