Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1912-06-21
SI.oo Per Year. No. ID
The 3-year Mcme-
stead k-aM.

Washington, June 15-Of paramount
interest and Importance to settlers in
New Mexico and Arizona and other
states in the west is the recently en-
acted 3-year homestead bill, which re-
Gently hecane a law b, approval of
President Taft. The full provisions of
this act are as follows:
BE it enacted by the senate and
house OF representatives, ot the United
states Of America in congress assembl-
ed, That section twenty two Aundred
and ninety zone and section twenty
two hundred and ninety-seven If the
revised statutes of the United States
be amended to read as follows
Section 225l. No certificate, how
ever, shall be given or patent issued
therefor until the expiration of three
years from the date of such entry; and
il at the expiration of such time, or at
any time within two years thereafter.
the person making such curry, 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
n deYisee, in case of her death. proves
himself and two credibi witnesses
nat e, she or they have a habitable
house apon the land and have actually
esiued upon ana cultivated the same
Tor term of thr years succeeding
the time of filing the affidavit, and
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 or
they will bear true allegiance to the
gov rnment Of the United States, then
in such case he, she or they, if at that
time citizens of the Unithd States.
snail be entitled to patent, as in 9TH
er cases provided by law; provided,
That upon filing in the local land office
notice OF Che begnningof such absence,
the entryman shall be entitled to a
continuous leave of absence from the
land for period not exceeding FIVE
months il each year after establishing
residence, and upon the termination
OF such absence the entryman shall file
notice Of such termination in the To-
cal land office, but in case of commu.
tation the fourteen mon hs' actual
residence as now required by law must
be shown and the person committing
must be at The time a citizen 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 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 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 comply with
the requirements of cultivation herein
: provided for, cultivating not less
! than one-siXteenth of the area of his
! entry, beginning with the second year
Of the entry, and until final proof, ex-
cept that in the case of entries under
4 section six of the arged-homestead
q law double the the area of cultivation
> herein provided shall be required, but
:. the Secretary of the Interior, upon a
satifactory showing, under rules and
regulations prescribed by him, redLce
the required area of cultivation: Pro-
81 vided, That the above provision 90 tc
cultivation shall not apply to entries
I. under the Act of April twenty-eighth
q nineteen hundred and four, commonly
x known a the Kirkland Act, or entries
= nodar tha Act of Juna a.xya,,taav,.l