Newell reclamation news. [volume] (Newell, Butte County, S.D.) 1910-19??, 1916-06-29
New Homestead Bill
Has Passed Congress

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Bill amending Enlarged Home
stead Act so as to permit is IT.
contiguous Additional Entry pass
es Congress.
Washington, d. G., June 2lst.
Special. The Undertake BIZ,
providing for the entry of nom
contiguous lands under til 9
Enlarged Homestead Act, passed
the Senate with an amendment
proposed by Senator Sterling
which provided that where the
land embraced in the additional
entry is located not exceeding ~
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 a provision was added 4,
Senator Sterling amendment
which restricts its benefits to those
entrymen who reside on the
original entry. The bill as passed
permits homesteaders who have
made final proof on lands which
have been designated as subject to
entry under the Enlarged Home
stead Act, but who have been un.
able to enter additional contiguous
land, to make entry on noncontig-
uous land of the same character
which shall not with the original
entry exceed three hundred and
twenty acres. Where the land in
the additional entry is within
twenty miles of TIE original entry,
residence will not ne required on
the additional entry if the entry
man continues to reside on his
original entry. The bill will un-
doubtedly be signed by the Presi-
dent in the course of a few days.
II. r. 1854.
An Act to amend an Act en-
titled IAN Act to provide for an
enlarged homestead approved
February nineteenth, nineteen
hundred and nine, by adding a
n W section to be known as section
seven.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States Of America in Con-
gress assembled, that the Act
entitled IAN act to provide for an
enlarged homestead" approved
February nineteenth, nineteen
hundred and nine, be amended by
adding thereto an additional Sec
tion to be known as section seven.
Sec. Z. That any person who
has made or shall make homestead
entry of less thar three hundred
and twenty acres of lands 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 Act, not
contiguous to his fisrt entry, which
shall not with the original entry
exceed three hundred and twenty
acres: PROVIDED, that the land
or ginally entered and that covered
by the additional 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 covered by such I'd
ditional entry until the person
making same shall have actually
and in conformity with the home
stead laws resided upon and cult
waited the lands SO additionally
entered, and otherwise complied
with such lave except that whei e
the land embraced in the additional
entry is located not exceeding
twenty miles from the land EN-
braced in the original entry no
residence shall lie required 90 said
additional entry if the entryman
is residing on his former entry:
AND PROVIDED FURTHER, That
this section shall not BE- construed
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