Show k TEX texa I 1 OF BORAH HOMESTEAD BILL 1 FOl following loving Z is the text of the borah 13 tones three year home stead bill us as it was signed by president dout I 1 laft on june 6 it will be noted teat fc nat tho the law takes the form of an all amendment to sections 2291 and 2297 of tho the revised statutes tes under the terms of the new law a copy will bo be sent to each homestead by the secretary of the interior the three year law follows be it exacted by the senate and house of representatives of the united states of america it I in Con congress gresA assembled that section 2291 and section 2297 of the revised statutes of tho the united states be amended to read as follows sec 2291 no certificate however shall be given or pat ent issued tile therefore until the expiration of three years from the date of such entry and if at the expiration of such time or at any time within two thore thereafter after the person making such entry or if he be be dead his widow or in case of her death hi h ls s heirs or devise or in case of a A widow making such entry her heirs heir 3 or devise iti in case of her death proves by hims himself elfand and by two creditable witnesses that he slid shor or they have a babi habitable table house upon the ja land nd and have actually resided upon tivon a and nd cultivated the same for the term of three years succeeding ceedie the time of filing filina the affidavit 0 and makes affidavit no part of such land has been alienated except as provided ro in section 2298 and that he she or they will bear the true allegiance alegi ance to the government of the united states then in such case he she or they if at that time lime citizens citi of the united states shall be entitled to a patent as in other cases provided by law provided that upon filing in the local land office notice or of the beginning of such absence the chall be entitled to a continuous leave of absence from the land for a period not exceeding e beeding ce eding five months in each year after afier establishing lishing residence and upon the termination nation of such absence the eu tryman shall file a notice of such termination in tho th local land office but in case ot of commutation the 14 months actual residence as now required b by y law must be shown and the person commuting must be at tho the time a citizen of the united states provided that when the 1 person making entry dies before the offer of final proof those succeeding to the entry must show that th the had compiled with the law in all respects to the date of his hils death and that they have since complied compiled with the law lav ju in all rex i r aspects nr HB would have been r re e quiren of the entry enteman man had bad he be lived except excepting hig that they U are arc received rele ived from any requirement of resi residence dolice tho the und land provided further that the shall in order to comply with the requirements of cultivation herein provided for cultivate i not less than one sixteenth of the area of his entry beginning with tho the second year 0 of f the entry and not less than one eighth be beginning 0 inning with tho third year of the entry and aind up until final proof except that in case of entries under section 6 of tue the enlarged hot homestead hestead law double the area of cultivation herein provided shall bo be required but t the he secretary ot off the interior may a ory showing under rules and re regulations 9 vi lations pres prescribed cribei by hi him reduce the required area of cultivation provided that the above provision as to 0 cultivate ion shall not apply to entries under the act of april 28 1904 commonly known as the kinkaid act or or entries under the act of june t 1 3 1902 commonly known as the reclamation act and that the provisions ot of this deetion relative to the bom homestead estead period shall apply to all unprotected entries as well veil as entries bere 0 after made upon which resl dence is required proy provided aided that the secretary of the he interior shall 60 days a after f ter the passage of the act send a copy of the same to each homestead of record who may be aff affected acted abe thereby reby by ordinary mail to his last known address and any such auch eu tryman may by giving notice within days after the passage of this act by registered letter to the register and receiver of tho the local la land nd office elect to make proof upon his entry under the law under which the same was made without regard to the provisions of this act kt section 2297 if at any time after the filing of the affidavit as required in section 2290 and before tb the expiration of the three years mentioned in section 2291 it is proved after due notice to the settler to the satisfaction is faction of the register of the land office that the person having tiled filed such affidavit lias has failed to lesta establish blish residence within six six mot months atlis after date of 0 entry or abandoned the land for more than khan six months tit at any time then and in that thai event the I 1 land so BO entered shull shall revert to the goven mont provided that the three years perio dof residence herein fixed shall date from the time of establish establishing ing ao actual permanent residence upon the land and provided further that where there may be climatic reasons sickness or other unavoidable cause the commissioner of nf the general land office may in his discretion allow the hlll settler 1 I months from the date of filing in which to commence his residence on said land under tinder such rules and regulations as lie he may prescribe rf W |