Chapter 148.
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CHAP. 148.— AN ACT for the relief of certain settlers on the public lands.June 1, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Homesteaders; injured by grasshoppers. That it shall be lawful for homestead settlers on the public lands whose crops were destroyed or seriously injured by grasshoppers in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, who left their land in said year, if no other settlement shall have been made thereon by, or right or interest therein accrued to, any other person, to return to said land at any time within three months from and after the passage of this act; and upon the return of such settlers to such land, such absence therefrom shall in no wise affect the original settlements or homestead rights, but such settlers shall be allowed to resume and perfect their settlement, as if no such absence had occurred: *Provided*, That proof of such destruction or injury of crops, absence and return of such settlers, shall be made in such manner as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may prescribe Approved, June 1, 1878.