Show 7 Some Homestead Legislation i Following Senate S nat Bill and Letter Make Mak i Life Easier for tor Some Homesteaders Homesteader The following senate bill hill and nd letter make life c easier for some homesteaders Be it enacted by the thc Senate and ancI House of I Representatives of the United States of in C Congress ns assembled That all persons who have heretofore heretofore hereto hereto- fore forc filed declaratory statement or made macIc homestead entries in inthe inthe the thc States of Utah where the thc period in in which they were wert or are arc required lr- lr ed cd by law to make entry under such d declaratory statements or orto orto orto to establish res residence expired or expires after December i first st nineteen hundred and ten are arc hereby granted ranted until May fifteenth fifteenth lif- lif nineteen hundred and eleven within which to make makeI I such entry or establish such residence upon the lands so o entered entered en en- by them Provided Prodded that this extension of t time me shall not shor shorten en either the period of com commutation mutation or actual residence i resi resi- deuce dence required by the thc homestead homestead home home- stead law Provided further that this act shall not affect an au adverse ad claim daim initiated prior initiated prior to i the age of the act and ancI after after af nf- af- af ter tion of the thc time allowed an for establishing establishing lishing residence on the lau land Sec 2 2 That homestead en en- tJ or settlers upon the public pub ic domain in the th States and und Territories above above ll named be bc and the the same are arc hereby relieved from the necessity necessity cs- cs si sity y of residence u upon Oll their lands lauds from flom the date of If the approval ap ap- of this this' act to tp May fifteenth fifteenth nineteen eti cIl hundred a and id I eleven Provided Pro that the time of actual a absence during the thc period named Clamed shall not be deducted from the full time of residence required by Approved February 13 3 1911 Washington ton l Feb eb 21 31 1911 Registers and l Receivers United States Land Offices and auel Utah Gentlemen The Thc Chic fo following lowing instructions ar are arc issued for your yo r guidance in the tile adm administration of f the act of Congress approved February 13 1911 Extending the time tulle for certain homesteaders homestead ers to establish residence upon their lands lands' lands Public No So 57 a it copy copy of which is attached l hereto Tl The e first section of the a act t applies to all homestead e entries es esin in is the States Slates named d made after J June 1 J 1910 and in ire such sueh cases cabes the are given until Nay May 15 1911 lUll to establish residence residence residence resi resi- dence upon their claims daims It lr also applies to soldiers soldiers' declaratory leclar- leclar atory statements filed in the thc States named after lifter J June Juric 1 lUlU 1910 and such declarants are arc g given until May lIar l 15 1911 1011 to snake make their homestead entries and establish establish establish es es- their residence on ou the land lund If Jf any auy payment is is required required re re- to be made in connection connection tion with the entry under the declaratory statement as inthe in iii inthe the case casc ot of ceded In Indian ian reservations reser reser- the act also operates to extend the payment until the C entry I try is made The first proviso to section 1 of the act provides that the the I period of commutation or of actual r residence shall l' l not be shortened who have ha i taken talen of tins this hiR o ex o- tension cannot submit commutation commutation u. u tation proof until they have maintained I substantially continuous con con- 00 lS residence fore i for 14 months I from the thc the date same was established established and in 5 year proof not claim credit fc for r constructive residence more than six months prior to to V the thc date ad actual nl resi- resi dente denCe e was established V Under the second provision of section 1 the act will riot not n t 1 lie 66 held to defeat the ad verse claim of one who nho has prior to the approval approval approval ap ap- of this act made wade entry V V I over a soldiers soldier's declaratory V statement where the six months allowed the soldier for making t g entry and and cst establishing residence residence resi resi- dence deuce has expired prior to February February Feb Feh- 13 1911 Nor or will it be beheld beheld beheld held to defeat a n contest against a a homestead e entry tiled filed after 1 v V- V the expiration of or six rr ol Uis from d date te of entry and and pr priori ol to to the pas passage age of this act net t The Thc second section sect of the p act f I grants a leave Q of cf absentee absence frost February 13 1911 lUll t to Nay to-Nay Nay May 15 15 lUll 1911 to all homestead hom st entry entry- men or settlers settlers- in e. e named in the first section of th the act who alfil avail themselves of this leave of absence absence ab ab- sence sence can not cla claim Ju cJe credit t for 1 residence during g th the time they arc are arc absent under such lc leave ave such period period of absence bs nc being simply imply eliminated from consideration consid consid- ration in iii cases of either final or e commutation proofs V Very ry respectfully lly FRED Fr DEN bEo i E TT r Commissio sio ier |