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provide for an enlarged homestead" in
the state of Idaho, shall extend to and
include the state of South Dakota.
Approved, March 4, 1915.
Public-No. 279-63d Congress- H.
R. 1919. An act to amend an aot en-
titled "An Act to provide for an en-
larged homestead
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assem-
bled, that sections three and four of
the Act entitled "An Act to provide
for an enlarged homestead" approved
February 10, 1908. and of an ACT en-
titled IAN Act to provide for an en-
larged homestead" approved June
II, 1910. as amended by an act approx.
ed February IL, 1918, be, and the same
are hereby, amended to read as follows:
Section. 3. That any person who has
made, or shall make, homestead entry
of lands of the character herein de-
scribed, and who has not submitted
final proof thereon, or who having cub
mitted final proof still owns and oc-
cupies the land thus entered, shall
have the right to enter public lands,
subject to the provisions of this act,
contiguous to his first entry, which
shall not. together with the original
entry, exceed three hundred and
twenty acres: Provided, that the land
originally entered and that covered by
the additional entry shall have first
been designated as subject to this Act,
as provided by section one thereof.
Section 4. That at the time of max,
ing final proof, as provided in section
1921 Of the Revised Statutes, the entry.
man under this act shall, in addition
to the proof and sfi1davits required
under said section, prove by himself
and two credible witnesses that at least
one-sixteenth Of the area embraced in
such entry was continuously cultivated
tor agricultural crops other than native
grasses, beginning with the second year
of the entry, and that at least one
eighth of the area embraced in the
entry was 80 continuously cultivated
beginning with the third year of the
entry: Provided, that any qualified
person who has heretofore made, or
who hereafter makes, additional entry
under the provisions of section three of
this act to an entry upon which final
proof has not been made, may be al.
lowed to perfect title to his original
entry by showing compliance with the
provisions OF section 229l of the Re
vssed Statutes. respecting such original
entry, and thereafter in making proof
upon his additional entry shall be
credited with residence maintained
upon his original entry from date of
such original entry, but the cultivation
required upon entries made under this
act must be shown respecting such ad-
ditional entry, which cultivation, while
1t may be made upon either the origin
al or additional entry or upon both
entries, must be cultivation in addition
to that relied upon and used in making
proof upon the original entry; or, IL he
elects, his original and additional en-
tries may be Considered as one, with
full credit for residence upon and I'M
provement made upon his original
el .ry, 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 suoh com.
btned entry whenever 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 hereby extended to seven years from
the date of the original entry: Provid-
ed further, that where an entry is
made as additional to an entry upon
which final proof has heretofore been
submitted BY an entryman who still
owns and occupies the land thus enter
cd, the entrymsn in making proof
upon his additional entry shall be cred-
tied with residence maintained upon
his original entry from date thereof.
but the cultivation required upon en-
tries made under this act must be
shown respecting such additional entry
and must 6e performed upon the land