Show RULES MAO MA o ON ONI I N T TH TO H HOMESTEAD M TAD Regulation m Affecting Soldiers Received at Local Land Office New regulations s. s regarding the time allowed discharged soldier to return to their homesteads ds have have been re receIved received re- re by Gould Blakely r register at atthe at the local land office According to the ruling the act of July 28 1917 provides that in connection connection connection con con- I with homestead claims in initiated initiated initiated in- in prior to entering the service I the military or naval service of the claimant shall be equivalent to all intents and purposes to residence and cultivation for the same sam length of Ot time upon the tract entered or settled upon In view of ot this provision the soldier soldier sol aol dier may promptly upon his discharge file me in the United States land office where his entry was made mado notice of j his intention to take the five five- months absence allowed in each residence I I year or such lesser absence as he he may be entitled to in that residence year such period will be counted as residence and a contest on ori the ground of Ot abandonment will not be beI permitted until th the expiration of six months in addition to the absence I taken under such notice Under this ruling where the discharge discharge discharge dis dis- dis- dis charge occurs five months or more before the end of the residence year and proper notice is given the entry will be protected from contest for eleven months after his discharge The Tho residence years ears referred to are computed in periods o of ot twelve months each dating from the soldiers soldier's enlistment enlistment en en- I or entrance into the service or from the date he established residence residence reslI resi resl- dence upon the thc lana land if he did so I prior to entering the service |