Arizona republican., 1912-06-15
THREE YEAR
 H0MESTEADS
Copy of the Measure Ap- proved Last Week Lop- ping Off Two Years of the Burden Laid Upon Entrymen

by the president. June 6.
 The following is a copy of it re- ceived yesterday from Representative Carl Hayden, one of it's most earnest advocates and whose speech in favor or it on March 10 attracted wide at tention:
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Uni i ted States of America in Congress assembled that section twenty two 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 fol- lows:
 Section 2291 No certificate, how ever, shall be given or patent issued therefor until the expiration of three years 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 his heirs or devisee. or in case of a widow mak ing such entry her heirs or devisee, in case of her death, proves by him. self and by two credible witnesses that he, she, or they have a habitable house upon the land and have ac- tually resided upon and cultivated the same for the term of three years sue ceeding the time of filing the affi daVit, and makes affidavit that no part of such land has been alienated, except as provided in section twenty two 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 t0 a patent, as in other cases pro- vided by law: Provided. that upon filing in the local land office notice of the beginning of such absence, the entryman shall be entitled to a con- tinuous leave of absence from the land for a period not exceeding five months in each year after establish ing residence. and upon the termina
 ton of such absence the entryman shall file a notice of such terminal ton in the local land office, but in case of communication the fourteen months actual residence as now re- quired by law must be shown, and the person committing must be at the time a citizen of the United States: Provided that when the per son making entry dies before the of
 fer of final proof those succeeding to the entry must show that the entryman had compiled with the law in all respects. as would have been required of the entryman had he liV- ed, 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 cul- tivatiOn herein provided for. cultivate not less than one-sixteenth of the area of his entry, beginning with the second year of the entry. and not
 less than one eight, beginning with the third year of the entry, and un-
 ii final proof except that in the case of entries under section six of
 the enlarged homestead law double the area of cultivation herein pro-
 vided shall be required, but the sec
 retary of the interior may, upon a satisfactory showing, under rules and
 regulations prescribed by him. reduce the required area of cultivation; Pro-
 vided. that the above provision as to cultivation shall not apply to entries under the act of April twenty eighth, nineteen hundred and four, common ly known as the Kinkaid act, or en-
 tries under the act of June seven- teenth, nineteen hundred and two, commonly known as the reclamation act, and that the provisions of thls section relative to the homestead pc riod shall apply to all unprotected entries as well as entries hereafter made upon which residence is re- quired: Provided, that the secretary Of the interior shall, within sixty days after the passage of this act. send a 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 notice within one hundred and tWen- ty days after the passage of this act, bv registered letter to 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"
 Section 2297. If. at any time after the filing of the affidavit IS required in section twenty-tWo hundred and ninety and before the expiration of the three years mentioned in section 1 twenty-tWo hundred and ninety-On 1 it is proved after due notice to the ! settler. to the satisfaction of the reg ister of the land office that the per l son having filed such affidavit has 1 failed to establish residence within l six months after the date of entry, | or abandoned the land for more than | six months at any time, then and in l that event the land so entered shall | revert to the government: Provided, | that the three years period of resi- | dence herein fixed shall date from 1 the time of establishing actual per manent residence upon the land: And , provided further, that where there may | be climatic reasons, sickness, or other unavoidable cause, the commissioner of the general land office may, in his discretion, allow the settler twelve months from the date of filing in which to commence his residence on said land under such rules and regu- lationS as he may prescribe
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