Chapter 189. For the relief of certain homestead settlers in Florida
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CHAP. 189.— An Act For the relief of certain homestead settlers in Florida. February 25, 1899. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Florida.Certain homestead settlers may perfect title, etc. That any qualified homestead claimant who was in good faith actually occupying a homestead claim under the laws of the United States in the State of Florida in the month of September, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and who was by, through, or on account of a storm which passed through said State during said month driven from or compelled to leave and to remain away from such homestead, may within one year from the passage of this Act return to such homestead claim and proceed to perfect title thereto as though absence therefrom had not occurred.
Approved, February 25, 1899.