The state herald. (Holyoke, Logan County, Colo.) 1887-1921, 1912-06-21
New Homestead Law.

hundred and ninety-one and section
twenty-five hundred and ninety-seven
of the revised statutes of the United
States relating to homesteads.
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 |
one and section twenty-five hundred and
ninety-seven of the revised statutes of
the United States be amended to read
as follows:
"Sec. 22el. No certificate, however,
shall be given or patent issued therefor
until the expiration of three years from
the date of such entry; and if at the ex
piration 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 max
ing such entry her heirs or devisee, in
case of her death, proves by himself
and by two credible witnesses that he,
she, or they have habitable house up
on 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 afiida
Wit 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 government
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 patent, as in other cases provided
by law: Provided. That upon filing in
, the local land office notice of the begin
ming of such absence, the entryman
shall be entitled to continuous leave
of absence from the land for period
not exceeding five months in each year
after establishing residence, and upon
the termination of such absence the en-
tryman shall file notice Of such termi-
nation in the local land Office, but in
case of Communication the fourteen
months actual residence as now requir-
ed by law must be shown, and the per-
, son committing must be at the time a
citizen of the United States: Provided,
That when the person making 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 com
piled with the law in all respects, as
, would have been required of the entry
man had he lived, excepting that they
are relieved from any requirements of
residence upon the land: Provided fur.
Their, 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 until final proof,
I except that in the case Of entries under
section six of the enlarged-homestead
law double the area of cultivation here
in nrov;dad ahall he raou;rad lint III.
sa.re,ar, ~ ,he Tr,.r;or nav rnon =
, s.,,sf,.,orv showing under r,,es ard
roorI.,;ors nroscr;hsa hv him rodroo
tho re,u;red .re, ~ cul,;v.,;o,. pr.
Ia tn, ~. ,hor. nro,,;.;ou =. :.
.u,t;y,t;on shall no, anniv 10 er,r;es nm
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nineteen hundred and four, commonly
known as the Kinkaid Act. or entries
/ under the Act of June seventeenth.
nineteen hundred and two. commonly
known as the reclamation Act. and tina,
the provisions of this section relative
to the homestead ne Rod shall apply To
all unperfected entries hereafter made
upon which residence is required; Pro.
yided. That the Secretary of the Inter
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