Chapter 39. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for an enlarged homestead.”February 11, 1913.[[H
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CHAP. 39.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for an enlarged homestead.”February 11, 1913.[[H. R. 23351](/us/bill/62/hr/23351).][[Public, No. 369](/us/pl/62/369).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Enlarged homesteads.Vol. 35, p. 639, amended.Vol. 36, p. 532, amended. That sections three and four of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for an enlarged homestead,” approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, and of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for an enlarged homestead,” approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, be. and the same are hereby, amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 3. Additions allowed to. That any homestead entryman of lands of the character herein described, upon which entry final proof has not been made, shall have the right to enter public lands, subject to the provisions of Limit.this Act, contiguous to his former entry, which shall not, together with the original entry, exceed three hundred and twenty acres. “Sec. 4. Proof of cultivation required.[R. S., sec. 2291, p. 420](/us/rs/s2291/p420).Minimum area reduced. That at the time of making final proofs, as provided in section twenty-two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, the entryman under this Act shall, in addition to the proofs and affidavits required under said section, prove by two credible witnesses that at least one-sixteenth of the area embraced in such entry was continuously cultivated for agricultural crops other than native grasses beginning with the second year of the entry, and that at least one-eighth of the area embraced in the entry was so continuously667 cultivated beginning with the third year of the entry: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Requirement of residence and cultivation modified.
That any qualified person who has heretofore made or hereafter makes additional entry under the provisions of section three of this Act may be allowed to perfect title to his original entry by showing compliance with the provisions of section twenty-two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes respecting such original entry, and thereafter in making proof upon his additional entry shall be credited with residence maintained upon his original entry from the date of such original entry, but the cultivation required upon entries made under this Act must be shown respecting such additional entry, which cultivation, while it may be made upon either the original or additional entry, or upon both entries, must be cultivation in addition to that relied upon and used in making proof upon the original entry; or, if he elects, his original and additional entries may be considered as one, with full credit for residence upon and improvements made under his original entry, in which event the amount of cultivation herein required shall apply to the total area of the combined entry, and proof may be made upon such combined entry whenever it can be shown that the cultivation required by this section has been performed; and to this end the time within which proof must be madeTime for final proof extended. upon such combined entry is hereby extended to seven years from the date of the original entry: *Provided further*, That nothing hereinResidence. contained shall be so construed as to require residence upon the combined entry in excess of the period of resilience, as required by section twenty-two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes.
” Approved, February 11, 1913.