Show THIS WILL BE BLOW TO MANY HOMESTEADERS S Man fan Who Filed FlIed on Acres Agri cultural Laud Land Not Entitled to Benefits of ot Acre 6 1 t Law W J l t f i JI Two vo or three thousand homesteaders homestead- homestead ers era of the former Uintah Indian reservation roe res need be in no hurry to make mako application to file upon the acre homestead under the Ferris hill bill recently recently re re- re- re enacted into law According to late Interpretation of the law the only person entitled to tofile file Is the person who previously filed on non Irrigable land E. E E H M. M Jones of Myton has received a leaflet leaflet leaf leaf- let from Congressman Joseph Howell Howen entitled Explanatory State Statement enL This document Is numbered and was presented on January 4 by Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Smoot Section 4 of the leaflet says I It If a homestead has haa heretofore exhausted his homestead homestead homestead home home- stead rights by securing title to acres of land In the humid regions this acre homestead act does not restore his rights right nor permit him to enter an additional additional additional ad ad- homestead The theory of the law is that only one homestead homestead homestead home- home stead may be taken by an IndivIdual individual individual in In- Of f course It If f the homestead was lost because of matters beyond the control of the he can apply to tomake V make second entry under the act to of September 5 1914 38 Stat or If It the land heretofore r entered was stock raising land and shall be designated as such by the secretary of the Interior then and in that event an additional additional additional ad ad- entry can b be made within with with- in 20 miles of the original entry t but not elsewhere Legislation known as the Ferris bill H. H B. B Is now pending looking to the restoration of the home- home v stead-rights stead of those who have heretofore bought Indian land This bill has already passed the the house and is now pending In the I United States Senate L Lo lo o o |