Chapter 821. To amend the Act of Congress approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled “An Act for the relief of settlers on the public lands.” June 6, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the third section
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CHAP. 821.— An Act To amend the Act of Congress approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled “An Act for the relief of settlers on the public lands.” June 6, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the third section of the Public lands.Vol. 21, p. 141.Act of Congress approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled “An Act for the relief of settlers on the public lands,” be amended by adding thereto the following:
" “Where an unmarried woman who has heretofore settled, or may Entrywoman’s marriage hot to forfeit right to homestead entry.hereafter settle, upon a tract of public land, improved, established, and maintained a bona fide residence thereon, with the intention of appropriating the same for a home, subject to the homestead law, and has married, or shall hereafter marry, before making entry of said land, or before making application to enter said land, she shall not on account of her marriage forfeit her right to make entry and receive patent for the land: *Provided*, That she does not abandon her residence *Provisos.*—to be otherwise qualified, etc.—no separate claim of land by husband.on said land, and is otherwise qualified to make homestead entry: *Provided further*, That the man whom she marries is not, at the time of their marriage, claiming a separate tract of land under the home-stead law.
“That this Act shall be applicable to all unpatented lands claimed Scope of act.by such entry woman at the date of passage.” " Approved, June 6, 1900.