The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-01-12
Provisions of New $40
Acre Homestead Bill

credited on both entries, but improve
ments must be made on the additional
entry equal to $1.25 for each acre
thereof.
Sec. 5. That persons who have
submitted final proof upon, or re-
ceived patent for, lands of the char
acter herein described under the
homestead laws, and who own and re-
side upon the land so acquired, may,
subject to the provisions of this act,
make additional entry for and obtain
patent to contiguous lands designated
for entry under the provisions of this
act, which, together with the area
heretofore acquired under the home
stead law, shall not exceed six hun
dred and forty acres, on proof of ex-
penditure required by this act on ac-
count o fpermanent improvements
upon the additional entry.
Sec. 6. That any person who is the
head of a family, or who has arrived
at the age of twenty-one years and is
a citizen of the United States who
has entered or acquired under the
homestead laws, prior to the passage
of this act, lands of the character de-
scribed in this act, the area of which
is less than six hundred and forty
acres, and who is unable to exercise
the right of additional entry herein
conferred because no lands subject to
entry under this act adjoin the tract
so entered or acquired or lie within
the twenty mile limit provided for in
this act, may, upon submitting proof
that he resides upon and has not sold
the land so entered or acquired and
against which land there are no en-
c~umbrances, relinquish or reconvey to
the United States the land so occu-
pied, entered, or acquired, and in lieu
thereof, within the same land office
district, may enter and acquire title
to six hundred and forty acres of the
land subject to entry under this act,
but must show compliance with all the
provisions of this act, respecting the
new entry and with all the provisions
of existing homestead laws except as
modified herein.
Sec. Z. That the communication pro-
visions Of the homestead laws shall
not apply to any entries made under
this act.
Sec. g.. That any homestead entry
men or %patentees who shall be entitled
to additional entry under this act
shall have, for ninety days after the
designation of lands subject to entry
under the provisions of this act and
contiguous to those entered or owned
and occupied by him, the preferential
right to make additional entry as pro-
vided in this act; Provided, That
where such lands contiguous to the
lands or two or more entrymen of
%patentees entitled to additional en-
tries under this section are not suf-
ficient in area to enable such entry
men to secure by additional entry the
maximum amounts to which they are
entitled. the Secretary of the Interior
is authorized to make an equitable
division of the lands among the sew
eral entrymen or %patentees, applying
to exercise preferential rights, such
division to be in tracts of not less
than forty acres, or other legal sub
divisions, and SO made as to equalize
as nearly as possible the area which
such entrymen and ~patentees will ac-
quire by adding the tracts embraced
in additional entries to the lands orig
inally held or owned by them; Pro-
vided further, That where but one
such tract of vacant land may be adj
joining the lands of two or more en-
trymen or patentees entitled to exer-
else preferential right hereunder, the
tract in question may be entered by
the person who first submits to the
local land office his application to ex-
ercise said preferential right.
Sec. 8. That all entries made and
patents issued under the provisions of
this act shall be subject to and con-
tain a reservation to the United
States of all the coal and other min
erals in the lands so entered and pat.
ented, together with the right to pros
pect for, mine, and remove the same
The coal and other mineral deposits
in such lands shall be subject to dis.
posal by the United States in accord.
nee with the provisions Of the Goa
and mineral land laws in force at the
time of such disposal. Any person
qualified to locate and enter the Goa
or other mineral deposits or having
the right to mine and remove the
same under the laws of the United
States, shall have the right at al
times to enter upon the lands entered
or patented, provided by this act, fo1
the purpose of prospecting for Goa