Chapter 335. To provide for issuing of patents for public lands claimed under the homestead laws by deserted wives
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CHAP. 335.— An Act To provide for issuing of patents for public lands claimed under the homestead laws by deserted wives. October 22, 1914. [[H. R. 16296](/us/bill/63/hr/16296).] [[Public, No. 221](/us/pl/63/221).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public lands. Homestead entries may be completed by deserted wife. That in any case in which persons have regularly initiated claims to public lands as settlers thereon under the provisions of the homestead laws and the wife of such homestead settler or entryman, while residing upon the home-stead claim and prior to submission of final proof of residence, cultivation, and improvement as prescribed by law, has been abandoned and deserted by her husband for a period of more than one year, the deserted wife shall, upon establishing the fact of such abandonment or desertion to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior, be Issue of patent.entitled to submit proof upon such claim and obtain patent therefor in her name in the form, manner, and subject to the [R.
S., sec. 2291, p. 420](/us/rs/s2291/p420). Vol. 37, p. 123.conditions prescribed in section twenty-two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States and Acts supplemental thereto and *Provisos.* Proof of residence, etc., required.amendatory thereof: *Provided*, That in such cases the wife shall be required to show residence upon, cultivation, and improvement of the homestead by herself for such time as when, added to the time during which her husband prior to desertion had complied with the law, would aggregate the full amount of residence, improvement, and Notices to be posted, etc.cultivation required by law: *And provided further*, That the published and posted notices of intention to submit final proof in such cases shall recite the fact that the proof is to be offered and patent sought by applicant as a deserted wife, and, prior to its submission, notice thereof shall be served upon the husband of the applicant in such a manner and under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe.
Approved, October 22, 1914.