Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1912-06-29
FIRsT-cLASs LAND LAW.
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NIti yIiNh'
An Act to amend section twenty-five
hundred and ninety-one and sec
ton twenty-five hundred and
ninety-seven of the Revised Stat
utes OF the United States relating
to homcsteadS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Uni
ted States OF America in Congress
assembled
That section twenty-five hundred
and ninety-one and section twenty
two hundred and niety- of the
Revised Statutes of the United States
be amended to read as follows:
Sec 22ol No certificate however.
shall be given or patent issued there
for until the expiration OF three years
from the date OF such entry; End If
at TIE expiration of such time, or at
any time within two years thereafter.
the person making such entry, or II
he be deed his widow or in case of
her death his heirs or devisee. or III
case OF a widow making such entry
her heirs or devisee, i'll case of her
death, proves by himself and by two
credible witnesses that he, She. or
they have a 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 the affidavit and makes affi
davit that no part OF such land has
been alienated, except as provided III
section twenty-five hundred and
eigty-eight. and that he, she or they
will bear true allegiance to the gov
eminent OF the United States, then in
such case he. she or they. if at that
shall be entitled to a patent, as i'll
other cases provided by law; provid
ed. that in filing in the local land
Office notice OF the beginning of such
absence, the entryman shall be en-
titled to a continuous leave of absence
from the land for period not exceed
ing five months in each year after es
tablishing residence, and upon the
termination of such absence the en-
tryman shall file notice OF such ter
mination in the local land office, but
months actual residence as now re
CURED by law must be shown. and the
person cummuting must be at the
time a citizen of the United States
provided, that when the person max
ing the 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 re
spects 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 resi-
dence upon the land; provided, fur
Their, that the entryman SHALL in order
to comply with the requirements of
cultivation herein provided for, cult
vate not less than one-sixteenth OF
the area OF his entry, beginning with
the second year of the entry. and not
less than one -eigth, beginning with
the third year of the entry. and until
final proof, except that in the case OF
entries under section six of the en-
larged homestead law double the area
of cultivation herein provided shall be
required but the Secretary of the In
terror may, upon a satisfactory show
ing, under rules and regulations pre-
scribed by him. reduce the required
area of cultivation; provided, that the
above provisions as to cultivation
shall not apply to entries under the
Act of April twenty eightr, nineteen
hundred and four, commonly known
as the Kangaid Act or entries under
the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen
hundred and two. commonly known
sa the Reclamation Act and that the
provisions OF this section relative to
the homestead period shall apply to
all NitlINS as NNii Is vi
tries hereafter made upon which resi-
dence is required; provided. that the
Secretary OF the Interior shall, with
in sixty days after the passage of this
Act. send copy OF the same to each
homestead entryman OF record who
may be affected thereby. by ordinary
mail to his last known address. and
any such entryman may. by giving no
tice within one hundred and twenty
days after the passage OF this Act
by registered letter 10 the register
and receiver OF the local land office
elect to make proof upon his entry
under the law under which the same
was made without regard to the pro
visions of this Act"
.sCac 11O7 Is aoy time afte,