The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-03-28

killers to fight the market stub |
bornly. Hogs &c higher, sheep
and lambs 10c lower.
The following late Act of Con-
gress will doubtless be of inter-
est to many who have additional
homestead entries intact. AS
you see it cuts out the require
ment Of residence beyond the
three year period.
An Act To amend an Act entitled San
Act to provide for an enlarged homestead ="
= Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States in
Congress assembled, That sections three
and four of the Att entitled can Act to
provide for al enlarged homestead" ap-
proved February nineteenth, nineteen hun
Act to provide for an enlarged homestead"
approved June seventeenth, nineteen hun
dred and ten, be, and the same are hereby,
amended 10 read rs follows:
''Sec. ). That any homestead entry
man OF lands of the character herein de-
scribed, upon which entry final proof has
not been made, shall have the right to enter
public 4 IDS, subject to the provisions of
this Act, contiguous to his former entry,
which shall not, together with the original
entry, exceed three hundred and twenty
acres.
Sec. 4. That all the time of making
final proof, as provided in section twerty-
two hundred and Linety one of the Revised
Statutes, the entryman under this Act ,hall,
in addition to the proofs and afiidavits re-
quired under said section, prove by two
credible witnesses that at least one sixteenth
of the area embraced in such entry was
continuously cultivated for agricultural crops
other than native grasses beginning with the
second year of the entry, and that at least
one-eight of the area embraced in the entry
was SO continuously cultivated beginning
with the third year Of the entry: Provided,
That any qualified person who has hereto
fore made or hereafter makes additional
entry under the provisions of section three
OF this Act, may be allowed to perfect title
TO his original entry by showing compliance
with the provisions of section twenty two
hundred and ninety-one of the Revised
Statutes respecting such original entry and
thereafter making proof upon his additional
entry shall be credited with residence main
tanned upon his original entry from the date
of such original entry, but the cultivation
required upon entries made under this Act
must be shown respecting such additional
entry, which cultivation, while il may be
made upon either the original or the addi-
tonal entry, or upon both entries, must be
cultivated in addition to that relied upon
and used in making proof upon the original
entry; or, If he elects, his original and adj
ditional entries may be considered as one,
with fall credit for residence upon and i'm
provements made under his original entry,
in which event the amount of cultivation
herein required shall apply to the total area
OF the combined Entry, and proof may be
made upon such combined entry wherever
it can be shown that the cultivation required
by this section has been performed; and to
this end the time within which proof must
be made upon such combined entry is here,
by extended TO seven years from the date
of the original entry: Provided further.
That nothing herein contained shall be so
constructed as to require residence upon the
combined entry in excess Of the period of
residence, as acquired by section twenty
two hundred and ninety one of the Revised
Statutes.
Approved, February II, 1913.