The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-04-19
EXTEND PAYMENTS ON
RESERVATION LANDS
Bill Extending Payments With Prov
inc Up Privileges Signed by
President Taft.
New Law is Very Beneficial TO Home.
steaders on the Indian Res.
ervatiOnS.

fetal measures ever passed to
homeSteaders became a law last
Saturday, when President Taft af-
fixed his signature to the bill eX-
tending the payments of lands on
the ceded portions of the Cheyenne
River and Standing Rock reserva-
tions. This bill has been awaiting
the president signature for some
time, and when the news was
flashed by wire from Washington
hundreds of hOmesteaders rejoiced
that they have been given privi-
leges which weather and crop con-
dltions for the last two seasons
have made absolutely necessary.
The News publishes the law,
which reads as follows
Sec. l. Be it enacted by the Sen
ate and House of Representatives OF
the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That any
person who has heretofore made q
homestead entry for land which
was formerly part of the Chey.
enre River Indian reservation, in
the State Of South Dakota. or the
Standing Rock Indian reservation
in the State of South Dakota anG
North Dakota, authorized by the
Act approved May twenty-ninth
nineteen hundred and eight, may
apply to the register and receiver
of the land office in the district OF
districts in which the land is To-
Gated for an extension of time
within which to make payment OF
any amount that is about to be
come due. and upon the payment
of interest for one year in advance
at five per centum per anlum upor
the amount due, such payment will
be extended for a period OF one
year, and any payment SO extend
ed may annually thereafter be tX-
tended for q period Of one year ir
the same manner: Provided
That the last payment and al
other payments must be made with
in a period rot exceeding one yeal
after the last payment becomes due
by the terms of the Act under
which the entry was made; thai
all moneys paid for interest as
herein provided shall be deposited
in the Treasury to the credit OF
the Indians as part OF the pro
ceeds received for the lands AnC
provided further, That any entry
man who has resided upon anC
cultivated the land embraced in his
entry for the period of time re-
quired by law in order to make
Communication proof, may make
proof, and if the same is approved
further residence and cultivation
will not be required, but patent
shall be withheld until full and
final payment of the purchase pric,
is made in accordance with the
provisions hereof.
Sec. ,. That failure to make
any payment that may be due, un-
less the same be extended as here
in provided, will forfeit the entry
and the same shall be cancelled
and any and all payments thereto
fore made shall be forfeited
Sec. 3. That nothing herein
contained shall affect any valid ad.
verse claim initiated prior to the
passage of this act"
The application of this law will
be of untold benefit to the home
steaders Oh the reservation in
many ways. Under its provisions
they can make cOmmutation proof
after the required residence and
cultivation at a cost not exceeding
$40 in publication and official fees.
! One of the most pleasing features