Chapter 270. To provide for leave of absence for homestead entrymen in one or two periods
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CHAP. 270.— An Act To provide for leave of absence for homestead entrymen in one or two periods. August 22, 1914.[[H. R. 13717](/us/bill/63/hr/13717).][[Public, No. 183](/us/pl/63/183).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public lands.Homestead entries.[R. S., sec. 2291, p. 420](/us/rs/s2291/p420), amended.Vol. 37, p. 123, amended.Division of leave of absence allowed. That the entryman mentioned in section twenty-two hundred and ninety-one, Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the Act of June sixth, nine-teen hundred and twelve, Thirty-seventh Statutes, one hundred and twenty-three, upon filing in the local land office notice of the beginning705 of such absence at his option shall be entitled to a leave of absence in one or two continuous periods not exceeding in the aggregate five months in each year after establishing residence; and upon the termination of such absence, in each period, the entryman shall file a notice of such termination in the local land office; but in case of commutation,Commutation. the fourteen months actual residence, as now required by law, must be shown, and the person commuting be at the time a citizen of the United States.
Approved, August 22, 1914.