East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-07-28
HONESTEADERS ARE
GIVEN MORE LEEWAY
BY NEW AMENDMENT
ADDITIONAL ENTRY WITHIN 20
MILES OF THE ORIGINAL
NEEDS No RESIDENCE.

Clause virtually Restores Under Ger
tain conditions Another Home
stead Right to Persons Having Used
One.
LA GRANDE, ore, July 2S,-First
definite explanation of the recent
amendment to the enlarged home
stead act, has been made public by
! the La Grande land office, The
amendment became effective July
3D. but to date little has reached
/ newspaper columns of its precise
working details. Inquiries are pour
/ ing into the land office in this city,
and Register F, c. Bramwell and
| Receiver Nolan Skiff, nave been busy
writing letters on ths subject AS u
comprehensive and detailed explana-
/ ton of the new law may be cited a
letter forwarded to Joe H. Parkes OF
( Pendleton today In this letter to Mr.
Prkes the officials say
am in receipt of your inquiry rel
atlve to a bill introduced by congress
man Sinnott as an amendment to tho
| enlarged homestead act, authorizing
additional entries for land not con-
4 tiguous to the original entry, You
ask to be fully advised as to the pro
visions OF this bill.
You perhaps have reference to the
I Act Of July Srd, tPublic No 142
amend ng the act or February 18th.
1909, commonly known as the
enlarged homestead act, by add
ing thereto an additional section 10
be known as section seven.
This act provides:
Section Z, That any person who
has made or shall make homestead
entry of less than three hundred and
twenty acres of land OF the character
herein described, and who shall have
submitted final proof thereon shall
have the right to enter public lands
subject to the provisions of this dct
not cont guous to his first entry which
shall not with the original entry ex-
ceed three hundred and twenty acres;
Provided That the land originally
entered and that covered by the ad-
ditional entry shall first have been
designated as subject to this act, as
provided by section one thereof
Provided Further That in no case
shall patent issue for the land COW
cred by such additional entry until
the person making same shall have
A actually and in conformity with the
. homestead laws resided upon and
: cultivated the lands so additionally
e entered and otherwise complied with
j such laws except thar where the land
:. embraced in the additional entry Is
n located not exceeding twenty miles
: from the land embraced in the orig
: inal entry no residence shall be re-
: auired on such additional entry il the
r entryman is residing on his formel
p entry; And Provided Further, Tina
IS this section shall not be construed a.
: affecting any rights as to location o
1t soldiers additional homesteads un
d der section twenty-three hundred an'
six of the Revised Statutes
Under department construction a
a announced in Circular No. 1856, ap
\ proved July Sth. 1916, additional en-
tries will be allowed only in the state
where the nlarged homestead act
r, in force and where rnal proof on tn
y original entry has been submitted
Where the additional entry is With
twenty miles Of the original entry
and the applicant st.ll maintains hi
p. re idence on the land first entered
\ no residence on the additional entr
=. will be required; but cultivation, un
~. der the Act Of June 9Th, 1912, mus
=. he shown on the submission Of tlni
t. ,Droof, If the additional entry
ia more than twenty miles from the oI
- ipinal entry both residences and Gu
tiyat.on. under the three-year la
will be required To determine tn
distance between the two entries tn
nearest points measured on straigf
= me, will control.
L In all cases, the land in the origr
al entry, as well as the land apple
n for under the additional application
must be designated under the enlart
ed homestead act; but where the Ian
in either entry has not already bee
des gnated the applicant may flle
W petition for designation, in duplica'
y as provided by the hct of March 4tI
P- 1915. and department Circular N
. 402, except that separate petltloI
10 must be filed If the land in both tn
original and additional entries nj
le not been designated.
~ Where an applicant for an ada
90 onal entry made his original entI
~ in a different land district inquiI
III Will be made Of the proper land o
flee to ascertain whether or not Il
~ land in his original entry has bee
designated. If not already designa
, ed under the enlarged homestead ac
the applicant will be allowed thir
/" days in which to file a petition Il
~ designation, covering the undeslgna
- ed land
Under this act, any person who hi
heretofore made a homestead emit
on which proof has been submitte
may make a second, ar additional el
ne try. for such an area as will, wht
~ added to the area heretofore entere
iis not exceed 320 acres However,
s :, such person, for example, has mac
~ timber and stone or desert land ei
70 try for 100 acres and a homestei
" " entry for 100 acres, he would still
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