Chapter 136.
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CHAP. 136.— An act to provide for issuing patents for public lands claimed under the pre-emption and homestead laws in cases where the claimants have become insane.June 8, 1880. *Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Patents for public lands in cases of insanity. That in all cases in which parties who regularly initiated claims to public lands as settlers thereon according to the provisions of the pre emption or homestead laws, have become insane or shall hereafter become insane before the expiration of the time during which their residence, cultivation, or improvement of the land claimed by them is required by law to be continued in order to entitle them to make the proper proof and perfect their claims, it shall be lawful for the required proof and payment to be made for their benefit by any person who may be legally authorized to act for them during their disability, and thereupon their claims shall be confirmed and patented, provided it shall be shown by proof satisfactory to the Commissioner of the General Land Office that the parties complied in good faith with the legal requirements up to the time of their becoming insane, and the requirement in homestead entries of an affidavit of allegiance by the applicant in certain cases as a prerequisite to the issuing of the patents shall be dispensed with so far as regards such insane parties.
Approved, June 8, 1880. Chapter 137: to further amend the act entitled “An act to reorganize the courts of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and to amend section eight hundred and sixty-one of chapter twenty-four of the Revised Statutes of the District of Columbia. Chapter 137 21 Stat. 166 1880-06-08 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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