Show ll 11 REVIEW flie new additional bill that did not become a law ol 01 some few weeks ago I 1 gave a synopsis of a bill pending befaro congress containing important and beneficial provisions and predicted that it would pass both bouses well the prediction proved correct ant the bill failed to become a law because it was not reached by the president for signature before the adjournment of congress I 1 have no that the matter will receive early attention when congress reconvenes in december that the bill will be re enacted and receive the signature of the president in order that the people may be familiar with the provisions I 1 print it entire in this letter to the exclusion of other matter deeming it of the utmost importance an act to allow persons who have abandoned or relinquished their homestead entries to make another entry and for other purposes be it enacted etc that any person who has not heretofore perfected title to a tract of land which he has made tiling upon under the pre emp tion law or entry of under the homestead law may make a homestead entry of not exceeding one quarter section of public land subject to such entry such previous filing or entry to the contrary notwithstanding but this right shall not apply to persons who perfect title to lands under the pre emption or homestead laws already initiated sec 2 that whenever it shall be made to appear to the register and receiver of any public land office under such regulations as the secretary of the interior may prescribe that any settler upon the public domain under existing law is unable by reason of drouth whole or partial destruction st of crops sickness or other unavoidable casualty to secure a support for himself herself or those dependent upon him or her upon the lands settled upon then such register and receiver may grant to such settler a leave of absence from the claim upon which he or she has filed for the period not exceeding one year at any time and such bettler so granted leave of absence shall forfeit no rights by reason of such absence provided ahat the time of such actual absence shall not be deducted from the actual residence required by law sec 3 that the price of all sections and parts of sections of the public lands within the limits of the portions af the several grants of lands to aid in the construction of railroads which have been heretofore and which may hereafter be forfeited which were by the act making such grants or have since been increased 10 the double minimum prices and also of all lands within the limits of any such railroad grant and not embraced in the grant lying adjacent to and coterminous with tho portions of the line of any such railroad which snail not bo completed at the date of this act is hereby fixed at one dollar and twenty five cents per acre sec 4 that from and after the passage of this act any homestead settler who has less than one quarter section of land may enter other and additional land lying contiguous to the original entry which shall not with the land first entered and occupied exceed in the aggregate one hundred and sixty acres without proof of residence upon and cultivation of the additional entry and if final proof settlement and cultivation ti has been made proof of the original entry when the additional entry is made then the patent shall issue without final proof sec 6 that every person entitled under the provisions of the homo stead laws to enter a homestead who has heretofore complied with or who shall hereafter comply with the conditions of said laws and who shall have made his final proof ajr a quantity of land less than one hundred and sixty acres and received the receivers final receipt t shall bo entitled under said laws to enter by legal subdivisions of the public lands of the united states subject to homestead entry so much additional land as added to the quantity previously so entered by him shall not exceed one hundred and sixty acres provided that in case shall patent issue until the person making fauch additional homo B cad entry shall have actually and ia conformity uth the laws resided and cultivated the land entered rein and otherwise complied with such laws should my opinion as herein expressed be verified many homeless people will have occasion to in the opportunity to secure homes N corp |