Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-07-07
Additional Entries
Allowed Under Bill
Residence Required on Additional Hc-
mestead If Final Proof has Been
Made on Original Entry

MaSnlnStOn, June ZI.-lnc llm-
ber Lake Bill, providing for the
entry of noncontiguous lands under
the Enlarged Homestead Act, passed
the Senate with an amendment pro-
posed by Senator Sterling which
provided that where the lands en-
braccd in the additional entry is To-
Gated not exceeding twenty miles
from the original entry, no residence
shall be required on the additional
entry. As thus amended the bill
went back to the House where Il
provision was added to Senator
| Sterling's amendment which re-
stricts it's benefits to those entrymen
who reside on the original entry
The bill as passed permits home
steadcrs who have made final proof
on lands which have been designated
as subject to entry under the En-
larged Homestead Act, but who
have been unable to enter additional
contiguous land, to make an entry
on noacontiguous land, Of the
same character which shall not with
the original entry exceed three hum
dred and twenty acres. Where the
land in the additional entry is with
in twenty miles Of the original entry,
residence will not be required on the
additional entry if the entryman
continues to reside on his original
entry. The bill will undoubtedly
be signed by the President in the
course of few days.
An Act to amend an Act entitled
"An Act to provide for an enlarged
homestcad.'' approved February
nineteenth, nineteen hundred and
nine, by adding new section to be
known as section seven.
it enacted by the Senate -.nd
House Of Representatives OF the
United States of America in Con-
gress assembled, that the Act en-
titled s.'An act to provide for an en-
largcd homcstead,o approved Feb
ruary nineteenth, nineteen hlmdred9
and nine be amended by adding
thereto an additional section to be
known as section seven.
Sec. Z. That any person who
has made or shall make homestead
entry Of less than three hundred and
twenty acres of lands Of the char
acter herein described, and who
shall have submitted final proof
thereon, shall have the right to en-
ter public lands subject to the pro-
visions of this Act, not contiguous
to his first entry, which shall not
with the original entry exceed three
hundred and twenty acres: PRO-
VlDED, That the land originally
entered and that covered By the adj
ditional entry shall have been desig-
mated as subject to this Act as pro-
vidcd by section one thereof: PRO
NIDED 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 adj
ditional entry is located not ex-
ceeding twenty miles from the land
embraced in the original entry
no residence shall berequired
on said additional entry if
the entryman is residing on his
former entry. AND PROVIDED
FURTHER. That this section shall
not not be construed as affecting
any rights as to location of soldiers
additional homcstcads under section
twenty-three hundred and six of
the Revised Statucs.''