Chapter 225.
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CHAP. 225.— AN ACT Providing for the validation of certain homestead entries. March 3, 1911.[[H. R. 26290](/us/bill/36/hr/26290).][[Public, No. 469](/us/bill/36/pl/469).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That all homestead entriesPublic lands.which have been canceled or relinquished, or are invalid solely because of the erroneous allowance of such entries after the withdrawal of lands for national forest Homestead entries in national forests.purposes, may be reinstated or allowed to remain intact, Reinstatement of, canceled for erroneous allowance.but in the case of entries heretofore canceled applications for reinstatement must be filed in the proper local land office prior to July first, nineteen hundred and twelve.
Sec.2.That in all cases Rights of contestants.where contests were initiated under the provisions of the Vol. 21, p. 111.Act of May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, prior to the withdrawal of the land for national forest purposes, the qualified successful contestants may exercise their preference right to enter the land within six months after the passage of this Act. Approved, March 3, 1911.