Show LAND REVIEW the new additional homestead nur that did not become a law editor deseret news some gome few weeks ago I 1 gave a synopsis ot of a bill pending before congress containing 11 important octant and beneficent provision sana predicted that it would pass both houses well the prediction proved correct but the bin 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 doubt that matter will receive early attention loll when congress reconvenes I 1 in u december that toe bill will be re enacted and receive the signature of the president in order that the people may be familiar with its provisions I 1 print it entire in this letter to the exclusion of other matter deeming deemin gt it of the utmost importance imd ortance 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 nas nan not heretofore perfected title to a tract of land which he has made filing upon under the preemption pre emption law or entry of under the homestead law may make a homestead entry of not exceeding one quarter section of public land to such entry such previous ions filing or entry to the contrary notwithstanding but this rig right h t sh shall all not apply to persons who perfect title to lands under the preemption 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 jand office under such regulations ay aw the secretary of the In interior anterio terio may prescribe that any settler upon the public domain under existing law is unable by reason of drouth whole or partial of crops sickness or other unavoidable casualty to secure a support for himself herself or those dependent upon him or her upon the lands land s se settled alij tt d upon I 1 then such register and receiver may grant t to 0 such settler a alave ilave of absence from the claim upon which he or she has tiled tor for the period not exceeding one year at any one time and such settler so granted leave of absence shall forfeit no rights by reason of such budh absence provided that 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 of the several grants of lands to aid in the construction of railroads which have been heretofore and which may hereafter be which were by the act making such grants or have since been increased to the double minimum price and also of all lands within the limits of any such railroad grant and not embraced in he grant lying adjacent to and coterminous with the portions of the line of any such railroad which shall not pe be completed at the date of this act is hereby fixed at one dollar and twenty five anve cents per acre SEC 4 that from and after the passage of this act any homestead settler who has entered less than one quarter section of land may enter other and land lying contiguous to tead entry whick shall not with the land first entered and ana occupied exceed in the aggregate one hundred and sixty acres without proof of residence upon and ot of vie alie additional entry and if final proof settlement and cultivation ku has been made ol of the original entry when the additional entry is ia made then the patent shall issue without final proof SEC 5 that every person entitled under the provisions ot of the homestead laws a ws to enter at a homestead who has heretofore complied with or WHO shall hereafter comply with wi th t ane 11 e conditions of said laws and who shall have made itis his final proof for a quantity of land less than one hundred and sixty acres and re ahe receivers final receipt shall be anted enit fed under said laws to enter by legal subdivisions of the public lands of the united states subject tu to homestead entry so much additional land as added to the quantity tit previously so entered by him shall not exceed one hundred ard and sixty acres provided that in wo 90 case cam shall patent issue until the person making such additional homestead entry shall have actually and in conformity with th the e homestead laws resided upon and cultivated the land entered therein and otherwise corn coln plied with such laws should my opinion as herein expressed be verified many homeless peo people le will have occasion to rejoice in tte the opportunity to secure homes HENRY N COPP |