Chapter 180. To allow the commutation of homestead entries in certain cases
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CHAP. 180.— An Act To allow the commutation of homestead entries in certain cases. January 26, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public lands.[R. S., sec. 2301, p. 421](/us/rs/s2301/p421).Commutation to setters under free homestead law authorized. That the provisions of section twenty-three hundred and one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended, allowing homestead settlers to commute their homestead entries be, and the same hereby are, extended to all homestead settlers affected by or entitled to the benefits of the *Ante*, p. 179.provisions of the Act entitled “An Act providing for free homesteads on the public lands for actual and bona fide settlers, and reserving the public lands for that purpose.” approved the seventeenth day of May, *Proviso.*Price.anno Domini nineteen hundred: *Provided, however*, That in commuting such entries the entryman shall pay the price provided in the law under which original entry was made.
Approved, January 26, 1901.