Chapter 100. For the relief of homestead entrymen under the reclamation projects in the United States
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CHAP. 100.— An Act For the relief of homestead entrymen under the reclamation projects in the United States.April 30, 1912.[[H. R. 18792](/us/bill/62/hr/18792).][[Public, No. 142](/us/pl/62/142).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Irrigation Act.Homesteaders under, Allowed time to reestablish residence after water available. Vol. 36, p. 864.Vol. 32, p. 888. That no qualified entryman who prior to June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, made bona fide entry upon lands proposed to be irrigated under the provisions of the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, the national reclamation law, and who established residence in good faith upon the lands entered by him, shall be subject to contest for failure to maintain residence or make improvements upon his land prior to the time when water is available for the irrigation of the lands em-braced in his entry, but all such entrymen shall, within ninety days after the issuance of the public notice required by section four of the reclamation Act, fixing the date when water will be available for irrigation, file in the local land office a water-right application for the irrigable lands embraced in his entry, in conformity with the public notice and approved farm-unit plat for the township in which his entry lies, and shall also file an affidavit that he has reestablished his residence on the land with the intention of maintaining the same for a period sufficient to enable him to make final proof: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Actual residence required.
That no such entryman shall be entitled to have counted as part of the required period of residence any period of time during which he was not actually upon the said land prior to the date of the notice afore- 106 said, and no application for the entry of said lands shall be received until after the expiration of the ninety days after the issuance of notice within which the entryman is hereby required to reestablish his residence and apply for water right. Approved, April 30, 1912.