The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-06-21
Three YEAR
HOMESTEAD BILL
Approved June s, 1912.

Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Unit
ed States of America in Congress as
sembled, That section twenty-five
hundred and ninety-one and section
twenty-five hundred and ninety-seven
of the Revised Statutes of the United
States be amended to read as follows:
"Sec. -2Dl. No certificate, how
ever, shall be given or patent issued
therefor until the expiration of three
years from 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 his heirs of devisee. or in case of
her death proves by himself and by
two creditable witnesses that he, she.
or they have habitable house upon
the land and have actually resided
upon and cultivated the same for the
term of three years succeeding the time
of filing affidavit. and makes affidavit
that no part of such land has been
alienated, except as provided in Sec
ton twenty-five hundred and eighty
eight, and that he, she or they will
bear true allegiance to the Govern
ment of the United States, then in
such case he, she or they. if at any
time citizens of the United States,
shall be entitled to a patent, as in
other cases provided by law: Pro-
vided. that upon filing in the local
land Office notice of the beginning of
such absence. the entryman shall be
entitled to a continuous leave of alb
sence from the land for period not
exceeding FIVE months in each year
after establishing residence. and upon
the termination of such absence the
entryman shall file notice of such
termination in the local land Office,
but in case of Communication the four
teen months actual residence as now
required by law must be shown, and
the person committing must at that
time be citizen of the United States:
Provided, that when the person max
ing entry dies before 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-
quired of the entryman had he lived
excepting that they are relieved from
any requirement of residence upon thu
land: Provided further, that the entry
man shall, in order to comply with tn,
requirements of cultivation herein pro
vided for, cultivate not less than one
sixteenth of the area of his entry
beginning with the third year of hi
entry, and until final proof, excep
that in case of entries under section
six of the enlarged-homestead Law
double the area of cultivation herei
provided shall be required. but tn
Secretary of the Interior may, upon
satisfactory showing. under the rule
and regulations prescribed for hin
reduce the required area of cultivs
ton: Provided. that the above pre-
vision as to cultivation shall not appl
to entries under the Act of April 28t
1904, commonly know as the Kinkai
Act. or entries under the Act of Jur
l7th.. 1902. commonly know as the r
clamation Act, and that the provision
of this section relative to the HON
stead period shall apply to all unpe
fected enteries as we'll as the entri
hereafter made upon wheich residen
is required: Provided. that the Sc
rotary of the Interior shall. with
sixty days after the passage OF ii
Act, send a copy of the same to ca
homestead entryman Of record vi
may be affected thereby. by ordina
mail to his last known address. a
any such entrynan may, by givi'
notice within one numbered and tween
days after the passage of this Act.
registered letter to the register .
receiver of the local land Office. eli
to make proof upon his entry und
the law which the same was ma
without regard to the provisions
this Act" AZ
"Sec. 22o7. II. At any time after
fling of the affidavit a. required
section 22o0 and before the expirati
of the three years mentioned in .
ton 22ol. it 10 proved. after due not
to the settler. to the satisfaction OF
register of she land Office that the ?
son having fled such affidavit has Il
ed to establish residence within
months at any time. then and IN