Chapter 208. For the relief of persons who have filed declarations of intention to enter desert lands
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CHAP. 208.— An Act For the relief of persons who have filed declarations of intention to enter desert lands.August 4, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Time for final proof desert-land entries extended. That in all cases where declarations of intention to enter desert lands have been filed, and the four years’ limit within which final proof maybe made had not expired prior 227 to January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, the time within which such proof may be made in each such case is hereby extendedVol. 26, p. 1097. to five years from the date of filing the declaration; and the requirement that the persons filing such declarations shall expend the fullYearly payment suspended for 1894. sum of one dollar per acre during each year toward the reclamation of the land is hereby suspended for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and such annual expenditure for that year, and the proof thereof, is hereby dispensed with: *Provided*, That within the period of five*Proviso*.Final declaration. years from filing the declaration satisfactory proof be made to the register and receiver of the reclamation and cultivation of such laud to the extent and cost and in the manner provided by existing law, except as to said year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and upon the payment to the receiver of the additional sum of one dollar per acre, as provided in existing law, a patent shall issue as therein provided.
Approved, August 4, 1894.