Chapter 122. for the relief of certain homestead and pre-emption settlers in Kansas and Nebraska
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CHAP. 122.— An Act for the relief of certain homestead and pre-emption settlers in Kansas and Nebraska.June 4, 1880. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Settlers on public lands in Kansas and Nebraska; leave of absence without forfeit of right. That it shall be lawful for homestead and preemption settlers on the public lands, or preemption settlers upon Indian reservations, in the States of Kansas and Nebraska west of the sixth principal meridian where there has been a loss or fail- 544 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Oh. 122, 123. 1880. ure of crops, from unavoidable cause, in the year of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, or eighteen hundred and eighty, to leave and be absent from said lands until the first day of October, eighteen hundred and eighty-one under such rules and regulations as to proof and notice as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may prescribe; and during said absence no adverse rights shall attach to said lands, such settlers being allowed to resume and perfect their settlement as though no such absence had occurred.
Sec. 2. That the time for making final proof and payment by suchTime for payment extended tor one year. pre-emptors is hereby extended for one year after the expiration of the term of absence provided for in the first section of this act; but in cases where the purchase money is by law payable in installments, the first unpaid installment shall be held not to be due until one year after the expiration of the leave of absence aforesaid. Approved, June 4, 1880.