Chapter 150. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for an enlarged homestead,” and Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto
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CHAP. 150.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for an enlarged homestead,” and Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.March 4, 1915.[[H. R. 1698](/us/bill/63/hr/1698).][[Public, No. 299](/us/pl/63/299).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and Blouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Enlarged homesteads. That where any person qualified to make entry under the provisions of the Act of February 1163nineteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, and Acts amendatory thereof Applications for entry of nondesignated lands.Vol. 35, p. 639;
Vol. 36, p. 531; Vol. 37, pp. 132, 267, 666.and supplemental thereto, shall make application to enter under the provisions of said Acts any unappropriated public land in any State affected thereby which has not been designated as subject to entry under the Act (provided said application is accompanied and supported by properly corroborated affidavit of the applicant in duplicate, showing prima facie that the land applied for is of the character contemplated by said Acts), such application, together with the regular fees and commissions, shall be received by the register and receiver of the land district in which said land is located, and suspended until it shall have been determined by the Secretary of the Interior whether said land is actually of that character; that during Lands segregated.such suspension the land described in said application shall be segregated by the said register and receiver and not subject to entry until the case is disposed of; and if it shall be determined that such land Allowance.is of the character contemplated by the said Acts, then such application shall be allowed; otherwise it shall be rejected, subject to appeal: *Provided*, That the provisions of this Act shall apply to the application *Proviso*.Adjoining lands.of a qualified entryman to make additional entry of unappropriated land adjoining his unperfected homestead entry, the area of which, together with his original entry, shall not exceed three hundred and twenty acres.
Sec. 2. That the provisions of this Act and of the first five sections South Dakota.Provisions extended to.of said Act of February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, and Acts amendatory thereof, excepting the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act to provide for an enlarged homestead” in the State of Idaho, shall extend to and include the State of South Dakota. Approved, March 4, 1915.