The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1912-06-20
The New Three Year Homestead Law.

The New Three Year Homestead Law
An Act To amend section twenty hundred and
hundred and of the Revised Statutes of
United States relating homesteads
Be enacted by the Senate and House Representatives Of M
United States Of America Congress assembled That section twenty
hundred and ninetyone and section twenty hundred
nnety.seven Of the Revised Statutes Of the United States BE-
amended to read as follows:
SEC 1921. No certificate, however shall be given patent
issued therefor until the expiration three years from the date such
ent:and 1.-THE expiration such time any time within
years thereafter the person making such entry he be dead his
widow Of her death his heirs devee Of
widow making such entry her heirs devee Of her death
proves by himself andby that he he they
have habe house upon the andand have actually resided upon
and cultivated the same for the Of three years succeeding the
filing the affidavit and makes affidavit that part such land has
been aenated except provided section twenty-five hundred
eghyegh and that he she they will bear allegiance the
Government OF the United States then such h sh they
that Of the United States shall be entitled patent
other provided by law Provided That upon filing the
local land office notice Of the beginning such absence the enyman
shall be entitled continuous leave Of absence for period not
exceeding five months each year after establishing residence
upon the Of such absence the enman shall file notice
oslch termination the local land Office the
fourteen months ncea required by law must be shown
and the person committing must be the Of the United
rovded hat when the making entry dies before the
offer Of final proof those succeeding the entry show that the
enman had complied with the law all respects the date his
would have been required the emanhad he lived excepting that
they relieved from any requirement Of residence upon the nd
Provided further lhatthe entyman sha comply with the
requirements cultivation herein provided cultivate less than
one-sxteenh OF the Of sen beginning with the second year
theen and less than beginning with hethrd year Of
the entry and until final proof excephat the Of entries under
section Of the law double the area Of cultivation
herein provided shall be required but the Secretary of the Interior
satisfactory showing under rules and regulations prescb-
ed by him. reduce the required of cuvaon Provided That
above cultivation shall apply to entries under the
Act OF April twenty nineteen hundred and four. commonly
known the knkad Act under the Act June seventeen
h nineteen hundred and commonly known as the reclamation
Act and that the Of this section relative the homestead
period shall apply imperfect well as entries hereafter
made which residence required Provided That the Secretary
OF the Interior SHALL within days after the passage this Act send
the each homestead entyman of record who NAV
be affected thereby by ordinary mail last known address, and py
such enman by giving notice within hundred and twenty
days after the passage Of this Act by registered letter the register
and OF the local land office elect make proof upon his entry
under the law under which the was made without regard to the
provisions Of this Act
SEC. 1921 IT, any after the filing Of the affidavit as re
qred section hundred ninety and before the exp
ton OF the three mentioned section TWENTY-FIVE hundred and
nnone it's proved after due notice the settler the satisfaction
OF the register OF the land Office that the having filed such afr
davt has tailed establish edencehn months after the date
OF entry or abandoned the land for than months any time
then and that event the land entered shall the Govern
men Provided hat the three period Of residence herein 6xec
shall date iron the time OF establishing actual permanent residence upon
the land And ue That where there may be climatic
Sickness other unavoidable cause the Of The
e Land Office his discretion allow the settler twelve months
from the date OF hing which his residence on said land
under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe"
Approved June e. 1912.