The Spanish American. [volume] (Roy, Mora Co., N.M.) 19??-19??, 1912-06-15
HOMESTEAD
BILL PASSES
New Law Will Be Of Great
Benefit to the Farmers.

Washington, June 6.-Presl
dent Taft today signed the three
year homestead bill permitting
entrymen on public lands to
prove up their claims in three
instead of five years.
Following is the text of meas
ure.
In the house of representatives
U. s., March 27, 1912. Resolved
that the bill in the senate 1867
entitled, "An act to amend sec
tions 229l and 2297 of the revised
statutes of the United States re-
lating to homesteads' do pass
with the following amendments;
Strike out all after the enact
ing cluse and insert: That sec.
tion 229l and section 2297 be
amended to read as follows: No
certificate, however, shall be Civ
en- or patent issued therefore un-
til the expiration of three years
from the date Of such entry; and
if at the expiration of said time
or at any time within two years
thereafter, the person making
such entry, orif 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 devisees, in case of her
death proved by himself and two
creditable witnesses that he, she,
or they, have resided upon or
cultivated the same for a term of
three years Immediately sue
ceeding the time of filing the af-
hdavit, aad 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, OF
they, will bear true allegiance
to the government of the United
States, shall be entitled to a pat
ent, as in other cases provided by
law; that upon fling in the lane
Office notice of the beginning o
such act, the entryman shall bt
entitled to continuous leave o
absence from the land for a tern
not exceeding five months in eacl
year after establishing residenc
and upon the termination Of sucl
absence the entryman shall fill
a notice of termination in the lc
cal land Office, but in case Of con
mutation, the fourteen months
actual residence as now require,
by law must be shown, and th
person committing must be a
the time a citizen of the Unite
States, provided that when tn
person making entry dies befor
the offer of the final proof, thos
succeeding to to the entry mu:
show that the entryman ha
complied with the law in all r(
spects to the date of his deaf
and that they have since compile
with the law in respects as woul
haye been required of the entr,
man had he lived, excepting thl
they are relieved from any r
quirement of residence upon Il
land, provided further that Il
entryman shall in order to COZ
ply with the requirements
cultivation herein provided 70
cultivate not less than one.si
tn of the area of his entry, begi
ming with the second year
the entry and not less than on
eigth beginning with the thi
year of the entry except und
section 6 of the enlarged hon
stead laws, double the area
cultivation herein provided sh
be required, but the secretary
the interior may, upon sati
factory showing under rules a
regulations prescribed by hi
reduce the required area of cul
walton; provided that the abo
provision as to cultivation sh
not apply to entries under I
Kincaid act, or entry under t