The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-04-20
UNIT HOLDERS
REGAIN RIGHTS

the Commissioner of the General
Land Office will be of interest to
a great many who have heretofore
filed on homesteads on the Flathead.
The rule previous to the enactment
OF this law, Feb. 20, 1917, was that
everybody who had filed on a farm
unit on the 4Flathead exhausted their
entire homestead right, and were
precluded from taking more land, By
the terms OF the circular sent to
all registers and receivers of land
offices, which is printed below, every
person who has heretofore filed on
and perfected an entry of less than
100 acres are entitled to again take
up sufficient land to make them a
full 100 acres, with what they have
heretofore taken.
This question has been asked many
times and always answered in the
negative, as that was the rule being
followed previous to this time it is
printed that those who are inter
ested may now know they still have
homestead rights.
Registers and Receivers, United
States Land Offices:
/. Your attention is directed to
the act of Congress of February 20,
1917, Public No. 337), which pro-
vides:
"That any person otherwise qua!-
ifieG who has obtained title under
the homestead laws to less than one
quarter section of land may make
entry and obtain title under the pro-
visions of the act entitled AN act to
provide for enlarged homesteads,'
approved February 10, 1910, and an
act of June II, 1910, entitled. AN
act to provide for an enlarged home
stead for such an area of public
land as will, when one-half of such
area is added to the area of the lands
to which he already has obtained
title, not exceed one quarter section:
Provided, That this act shall not be
construed to apply to soldiers addi-
section twenty three hundred and
six, United States Revised Statutes,
or acts amendatory thereof or sup
elemental thereto"
?. This act permits an additional
entry under the enlarged homestead
act to be made for tract desig-
natd as subject thereto, although the
land included in the applicants per-
fected entry be not thus designated;
it is immaterial whether he owns
the original tract, and the additional
tract may be contiguous thereto or
at any distance therefrom.
3. The application must contain a
description of all entries heretofore
made by the applicant or such data
as will serve to identify them
4. Under section 6 of the act of
March 2, 1889 (25 Stat, S54,) per-
son who has partially exhausted his
homestead right through a perfected
entry is entitled to make an addi-
tional entry for so n,ucl, land as will
with the area of the completed entry
make 100 acres. The present act
supplements that legislation by pro-
viding that the additional land, if
designated under the enlarged home
stead act, shall be estimated at only
one-half it's actual area in the cal
culation under the act of March 2,
1889. To illustrate: If the person has
obtained title to 40 acres, he may
make additional entry for not to ex-
ceed 240 acres of enlarged homestead
land. that is, twice 120; if he has
had SO acres, he may still take 16O
acres of such land; if he has had
12O acres, he may now take an addi-
tional so acres.
). In connection with an applica-
tion pursuant to the provisions C
this act, petition for designation ~
the land sought may be filed as pro-
vided in other cases of applications
under the enlarged homestead act,
and the proceedings with relation to
tn application and petition will be
as in other cases.
g. Where an application is f1lcl
for additional entry under either ser
tion 3 or section Z of the enlarged
homestead act, and the Secretary of
the Interior refuses to designate.
hereunder the tract included i, the
original perfected entry. the appli-
cation may be allowed for s., mach
of the land sought as the claimant
is entitled to enter under this act,
provided said land be designated as
subject to the enlarged homestead
Ict,
z. In proof on an entry allowed
,a1lrs llanf Ia tho laroxiSi0n.: IF tho