The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-01
KOmESTEADER IN ALASKA IS
 ENCOURAGED Bills Introduced by Dele gate SuIzer Consider Their Rights More
 Fully. TO HELP THE TERRITORY Will Assist in Bringing Un- der Cultivation Much
 Land Immed-
 lately.
TO HELP THE TERRITORY

Charles A. Sulzer, Delegate from Alaska. has introduced in Congress bills which, if enacted in laws, will prove of great benefit to the hyme steaders and cause much productive land to be brought under cultivation | at once.
 It is well known fact that owing to restrictive regulations the man wanting to take up land has been practically penalized for doing so, | and many persons have gone to- Northern Canada and other places and settled on land where the land was no more productive than that in Alaska and where the market conditions were not so good, The 1 agricultural resources of Alaska are
 beginning to attract attention. as
 well as grazing possibilities, and
 the purpose of the Delegate is to encourage settlement in every pos sible manner He has so far in troduced bills for extending the
 farm loan act to Alaska" in order
 that those taking up land may se-
 cure necessary funds for carrying
 on their work; bill amending the
 present homestead law so that the
 homsteaders may take up land in
 unsurveyed portions of Alaska; a
 bill abolishing the SO-rod strip be-
 tween homesteads and a bill au- thorizing the leasing and grazing of lands in Alaska.
 The bill to amend the homestead
 law in it's application to Alaska and for other purposes" introduced Jan. 10th, is as follows:
 Be it enacted by the Senate and
 House of Representatives of the United States of America in Con
 gress assembled, That the Act oi
 Congress entitled An Act to amend
 the United States homestead law in
 it's application to Alaska, and foi
 other purposes" approved July
 eighth, nineteen. hundred and six
 teen, is hereby amended to read as
 follows:
 Section l. That every person
 who is qualified under existing laws
 to make homestead entry of the
 public lands of the United States
 who has settled upon or who shall
 hereafter settle upon any of the
 public lands of the United States sit
 uated in the District of Alaska, whether surveyed or unsurveyed,
 with the intention of claiming the
 same under the homestead laws, shall
 subject to the provisions and limi
 tations of the Act approved March | .hird nineteen hundred and three, chapter one thousand and two, Unit ed States at Large, page one thou
 sand and twentyeight, be entitled to
 enter one hundred and sixty acres
 or less quantity of unappropriated public land in said District of Alas ka, and no more, and a former homestead entry in any other State | )r Territory shall not be a bar to
 homestead entry of Alaska; Pro- vided, That nothing herein contained | shall be construed to limit or cur tail the area of any homestead claim heretofore lawfully initiated.
 ''Sec. 9 That if the system of public surveys has not been ex-l ended over the land included in homestead entry, the entryman may, after due compliance with the .erms of the homestead law in the
 natter of residence, cultivation, and improvement, submit to the register and receiver a showing as to such compliance, duly corrobOrated by two witnesses, and if such evidence sat isfactorily shows that the home l steader is in position to submit acceptable final proof the surveyor general of the Territory will be sol advised and will, not later than the next succeeding surveying season, issue proper instructions for the sur vey of the land so entered, without expense to the entryman, who may thereafter submit final proof as in similar entries of surveyed lands So far as practicable, such survey shall follow the general system of public land surveys and the entryman shall conform his boundaries thereto; Pro vided. That nothing herein shall pre- vent the homesteader from securing earlier action on his entry by a spec ial survey at his own expense, if he so elects.
 Sec. 3. That there shall be ex- cepted from homestead settlement and entry under this Act the lands Ein Annette and Probilof Islands, the islands leased or occupied for the propagation of foxes, and such other lands as have been. or may be. re- served or Wifhdra Wn from settlement