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Show HOMESTEAD OF 320 ACRES MEASURE PASSED BY THE LAST SESSION OF CONGRESS. Full Text of the Law Which Allow Settlers to Acquire 320 Acres of Dry Farming Land. The homestead bill, providing for C20 acres of dry farming land, which passed the last session of congress and Is now a law, is as follows: An act to provide for an enlarged homestead. Be it enacted by the Senate Sen-ate and House of Representatives or the United States of America In Congress Con-gress assembled, That any person who le a qualified entryman under tho homestead laws of tho United States may enter, by legal subdivisions, under the provisions of this act. In the States cf Colorado, Montana. Nevada, Oregon. Utah, Washington and Wyoming, and tho Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, three hundred and twenty acres, or less, of non-mmeral, non irrigable, ir-rigable, unreserved and unappropriated unappropriat-ed surveyed public lands which do not contain merchantable timber, located lu a reasonably compact body, and not over ono nnd one-half miles in ex-tremo ex-tremo length: Provided, That no lands shall bo subject to entry under the provisions of this act until such lands shall have been designated by the secretary sec-retary of the Interior as not being. In his opinion, susceptible of successful Irrigation at a reasonable cost from any known source of water supply. Section 2. That any person applying to enter land under the provisions of this act shall make and subscribe before be-fore the proper officer an affidavit as required by section twenty-two hundred hun-dred and ninety of the revised statutes, and in addition thereto shall make affidavit af-fidavit that the land sought to bo entered en-tered Is of tho character doscrlbed in section one of this act, and shall pay the fees now required to be paid under un-der tho homestead laws. Section 3. That any homestead entryman en-tryman of lands of the characterVjiere-in characterVjiere-in described, upon , which flnarr0of has not been made, shall have the right to enter public lands, sublect to the provisions of this act, contiguous contigu-ous to his former entry which shall not together with the original entry, exceed ex-ceed three hundred and twenty acres, and residence upon and cultivation of the original entry shall be deemed as residence upon and cultivation of the additional entry. Section 4. That at tho time of making mak-ing final proofs as provided In section twenty-two hundred and ninety-one or the revised statutes the entryman un- der this act, shall, in addition to tho i proofs and affidavits required under tho said section, prove by two crod-Iblo crod-Iblo witnesses that at least one-eighth of the area embraced In his entry was continuously cultivated to agricultural crops other than native grasses beginning begin-ning with the second year of the entry, en-try, and that at least one-fourth of tho area embraced in tho entry was so continuously con-tinuously cultivated beginning with the third year of the entry. Section 6. That nothing herein contained con-tained shall be held to affect the right of a qualified entryman to make homestead home-stead entry In the states named In section sec-tion ono of this act under tho provisions provis-ions of section twenty-two hundred and eighty-nine of the revised statutes, but no person who has made entry under this act ehall be entitled to maKa homestead entry under the provisions of said section, and no entry made under this act shall bo commuted. Section 6. That whenever the secretary secre-tary of the Interior shall find that any tracts of land, In the mate of Utah, uubject to entry under this act, do not have upon them such a sufficient supply sup-ply of water suitable for domestic purposes pur-poses a6 would make" continuous residence resi-dence upon tho lands possible, he may, in his discretion, designate sucn tracts of land, not to exceed In the aggregate two million acres, and thereafter they rhall be subject to entry under this act without the necessity of residence: Provided, That In such event the entryman en-tryman on any such entry shall In good faith cultivate not less than one-eighth of the entire area of the entry during the second year, one-fourth during the third year, and one-half during tho fourth and fifth years after the date of such entry, and that after entry and until final proof the entryman shall reside within such distance of eald land as will enable him successfully to farm tho samo as required by this section. sec-tion. Approved, February 19, 1909. |
