Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-06-22
WILL BE OF GREAT BENEFIT
TO new SETTLERS OF THE
WESTERN STATES.
While Five Months leave Is Granted,
Proof Can Be Made in Three Year,
Senators Borah and Jones Bills Are
Consolidated - Commissioner Given
Liberty to Judge in Many Cases.

of six is one of the principal features
of the new homestead law recently
passed by the senate and house. The
bill as finally passed is consolidation
of the ones submitted by Senators
Borah and Jones.
The new rule now makes it possible
for homesteaders to prove up on their
claims in three years, instead Of five,
as heretofore. Following is the bill
complete:
Be it enacted by the senate and house
of representatives of the United States
of America in congress assembled. That
section twenty-five hundred and ninety
seven of the revised statutes of the
United States be amended to read as
follows: ttt
'TSection 1921. No certificate, how
ever, shall be given or patent issues
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 widow making such entry her heirs
or devisee, in case of her death, proves
by himself and by two credible wit
nesses that he, she, or they have hab-
table house upon the land and have
actually resided upon and cultivated the
same for the term of three years sue
ceeding the time of filing the affidavit,
and makes affidavit that no part of such
land has been alienated, except as pro-
vided in section twenty-five hundred
and Lightweight, 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 to a patent, as in other
cases provided by law:
! Give Five Months Leave.
S Provided, that upon fling 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 a period not
exceeding five months in each year
after establishing residence, and upon
I the termination of such absence the
! entryman shall file notice of such
termination in the local land Office, but
e in case of Communication the IA months
actual residence as now required by
g law must be shown, and the person
e committing must be at the time citi
zen of the United States.
Provided, that when the person max
ing entry dies before the offer of fnal
proof those succeeding to the entry
must show that the entryman had com
u piled with the law in all respects to the
date of his death and that they hav,
since complied with the law in all re
9 spects, as would have been required
/ of the entryman had he lived, except
ing that they are relieved from any re
y quirement of residence upon the land
Rules on Cultivation.
Provided further, that the entrymal
shall, in order to comply with the re
d quirements of cultivation herein pro
vided for, cultivate not less than one
10 sixteenth of the area of his entry, be
ginning with the second year of tn
he entry, and not less than one-eighth, be
s. ginning with the third year of tn
5. entry, and until final proof, except tina
d. in the case of entries under section 81
a of the enlarged homestead law doubl
n are area of cultivation herein provide
n shall be required, but the secretary o
the interior may, upon a satisfactor
81 LOT
prescribed by him, reduce the require
=. area of cultivation.
Provided, That the above provisio
as to cultivation shall not apply to er
co tries under the act of April 2s, 100
hu commonly known as the Kinkaid ae
nc OF entries under the act of June L
~ 1902, commonly known as the Reclami
rs tion act, and that the provisions of tn
~ section relative to the homestead perio
shall apply to all unprotected entire
as we'll as entries hereafter made upo
which residence is required; provide
that the secretary of the interior shal
'S' within 60 days after the passage (
this act, send a copy Of the same
" each homestead entryman of record wi
% may be affected thereby by ordinai
90 mail to his last known address, and ar
~ such entryman may, by giving noti
~ within 100 days after the passage
this act, by registered letter to the re
ister and receiver of the local lal
office, elect to make proof upon b
entry under the law under which Il
~ same was made without regard to &
- provisions of this act.
is Must Establish Residence.
tel Section 2297. If, at any time aft
the filing of the affidavit as required
section 1890 and before the expirati
of the three years mentioned in secti
1921, it is proved, after due notice
BILE the settler to the satisfaction of I
out register of the land Office that the p'
to son having fled such affidavit