Graham guardian., 1912-06-21
LAWS
New Law Requiring Only
Three Years to Complete
Homestead

SEC. 1229l. No certificate, how
ever, shall be given or patent issued
therefor until. the expiration of
three wears from the date of such
entry; and if 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
or devisee, or in case of a widow
making such entry her heirs or de-
visee, in case of her death, proves
by himself and by two credible wit
nesses that he, she. or they have a
habitable house upon the land and
have actually resided upon and cul-
tivated the same for the term of
three years succeeding the time of
filing the affidavit, and makes affi-
davit that no part of such land has
been aliented, except as provided
in section twenty-five hundred and
eighty-eight, 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 that time citizens of the United
States, shall be entitled to patent,
and in other cases provided by law:
Provided, That upon filing in the
local land Office notice of the begin
ming of such absence, the entryman
shall de entitled to continuous leave
Of absence from the land for per-
iod not exceeding five months in
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 resid-
ence as now required by law must
be shown, and the person committing
must be at the time citizen of the
United States: Provided, That when
the person making entry died be.
fore the offer Of final proof those
succeeding to the entry must show
that the, entryman 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 re,
guired of the entryman had he
lived, excepting that they are re,
lieved from any requirement OF
residence upon the land Provided
further, That the entryman shall,
in order to comply with the require,
ments of cultivation herein provided
for cultivate not less than one-six.
teenth of the area of his entry, be,
ginning with the second year of the
entry. and not less than one-eighth
beginning with the third year of the
entry, until final proof, except that
in the case of entries under section
six of the enlarged-homestead law
double the area of cultivation here.
in provided shall be required, bu,
the Secretary of the Interior may
upon a satisfactory showing under
rules and regulations prescribed by
him, reduce the required area OF
cultivation: Provided, That the
above provision as to cultivation
shall not apply to entries under the
Act of April twenty-eight, nineteer
hundred and four, commonly knowr
as the Kinkaid Act, or entries under
the Act of June seventeenth, nine
teen hundred and two. commonl,
known as the Reclamation Act, ant
that the provisions of this sectior
relative to the homestead periot
shall apply to all unperfected entrie,
as well as entries hereafter made
upon which residence is required
Provided, That the Secretary of tn;