El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-07-27
Department of the Interior, Genel
Land Office WASHINGTON n

Department of the Interior, General
Land Office, Washington, d. c.,
July s., 1916. ~
Registers and receivers, United
States land offices, Arizona, Califor-
MIA, Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Ne
vada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ore
gon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington
and Wyoming.
Sirs: The act Of July 3, 1916, (Pub-
dc, No. 142), added a seventh section
to the enlarged homestead act, to per
nit an additional entry for land not
contiguous to the tract originally en-
tered-after submission of proof on
the original entry. 1t reads as fol-
lows:
THAT the act entitled AN act to
provide for an enlarged homestead
approved February 10, 1909, be amend
ed by adding thereto an additional sec
ton to be known as section 4:
"fSec. 7. That any person who has
made or shall make homestead entry
OF less than three hundred and twenty
acres Of lands of the character herein
described, and who shall submitted
final proof thereon, shall have the
right to enter public lands subject to
the provisions of this act, not con-
tiguous to his first entry, which shall
not with the original entry exceed
three hundred and twenty acres: Pro
vided, That the land originally en-
tered and that covered by the addi-
tional entry shall first have been
designated as subject to this act, as
provided by section thereof: Pro
vided further, That in no case shall
patent issue for the land covered by
such additional entry until the person
making same shall have actually and
in conformity with the homestead
laws resided upon and cultivated the
lands so additionally entered, and
otherwise complied with such laws,
except that where the land embraced
in the additional entry is located not
exceeding 20 miles from the land en-
braced in the original entry no resi-
dence shall be required on such addi-
tional entry If the entryman is resid-
ing on his former entry: And provid-
ed further, That this section shall not
be construed as affecting any rights
as to location of soldiers additional
homesteads under section twenty
three hundred and six Of the revised
2. This act has no application UNI
less the first entry was made In onea
Of the state where the enlarged home
act is in force, as listed above,
and the additional entry can not be al
lowed until both tracts shall have
been designated Hereunder. How
ever, in considering allowance of the
entry it is not material whether the
applicant owns or occupies the orig
nal tract. A person whose two incon-
entries do not make up 800
icres, who has submitted proof on
he first and occupies his unprotected
Iecond claim, may amend the latter by
land contiguous thereto, so as
aggregate that area, subject to the
'equirements Of this act respecting
'esidence and cultivation. Also the
Of this act may be claimed
" a person who has made and per
ected more than one HON estead en-
ry, but the aggregate area OF the land
hus acquired with thar applied for IS
United to 800 acres.
s. The only qualifications required
4 an applicant under this act are
hat he has not already made an addi-
ional entry Hereunder, and that the
ract applied for will not, with other
lnds which he has entered and ac-l |.
uired title to under any OF the nom
mineral p~ublicland laws, or which he