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Show UNITED STATES LANDLAWS I ( opyrightc (1 11120 tjy Cola Shepherd, Shep-herd, Colony, Wyoming The stock-raising homestead law provides or Heveral different kinds of entries both original and additional, additi-onal, and the residence requirements vary with the kind of entry. A person who has never used his homestead right, and who has not taken more than 1G0 ucres under other non-mineral public land laws, such as the desert or timber and n one law, may take an original stock-raising homestead of 640 acres, ac-res, but not more than 280, under the desert or istone and timber laws he may take an original stock-raising homestead of as many acres as will not exceed 800 with that he has already taken under other non-inineral non-inineral public land laws. A person who has taken a homestead, bufl is entitle clto au additional homestead of 4 0 acres or more under any of the homestead laws, and who Is otherwise oth-erwise qualified, may take an additional addi-tional stock-raising homestead of so much land as will not exceed 640 acres with what was previously entered en-tered under all the non-mineral public pub-lic land laws. On all of the above mentioned homestead entries the entryman must make the same residence asi on any other homestead entry. He is allowed al-lowed six months after the entry is allowed (not the date he files his application ( in which to establish residence, but his residence does not begin to count until he begins to '' live on the land. Many people' think -'t.Vit brcatir-y they a.rea!'owled .-six month? iu -which to establish residence, resi-dence, they (.an count this six months as risidence, even though they do not get onto the land until the end of the six months' periol. This is not so. The residence does not begin to count until the entryman begins to live on the land, and he must reside on his entry for three years from the time he establishes an actual residence, resi-dence, without regard to the date of allowance. The sooner the entry-man entry-man begins to live on his land after his entry is allowed the sooner he can submit his proof. The land is held for him six months, during which he is not subject to contest for abandonment if he does not get onto it, but (that is all this six months mon-ths means to him. Stock-raising homestead enrty-men enrty-men are allowed the same five months' leave of absence each year, and the same credit for military service, ser-vice, farm labor etc., as other entry-men; entry-men; in fact, the residence requirements require-ments on an original stok-raising homestead are just exactly the same as on an entry of 160 acres under the general homestead laws, or an entry of 320 acres under the enlarged en-larged homestead laws, only commutation com-mutation proof cannot be made on a stock-raising entry. A person who has an unperfected homestead entry, taken under the general or enlarged homestead laws for land which is stock-raising in character, may take an additional entry under the stock-raising home-steal home-steal law for enough land to make up 6 40 acres with what he has previously pre-viously entered. If there is vacant land of this character joining his. or-iginia or-iginia entry he must take that, otherwise oth-erwise he may take this additional entry anywhere within twenty miles of his original entry, even of it be in another state. This would be an additional entry under Section 4 of the act. and in making proof on such additional entry it i not necessary to ;how any residence, except that three year proof was made on the original entry. A person who has made proof on land which is stock-raising in character, char-acter, under the original or enlarged enlarg-ed home-tetead laws, may likewise make an additional entry under the stock-raising homestead law. providing pro-viding he owns and resides upon his original entry at the time he makes such additional entry. This is an additional ad-ditional entry under Section 5 of the act. and the only residence necessary neces-sary to be shown in making final proof on such an entry is that entry-man entry-man owned and resided upon his original or-iginal entry at the time he made such additional entry. Even If com- mutation proof be submitted on the original entry, still thv additional entry' may be completed without fur-iher fur-iher residence And in cases where the entryman has sold his original en'ry he may buy it tack and move onto it and make an additional entry under this section. While this seems an evasion of the law. yet it has been held that the law enly requires that he own and reside on the original origi-nal entry at the time of making the a ld.tional entry, not before or after. |