Chapter 101. To restore homestead rights in certain cases
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CHAP. 101.— An Act To restore homestead rights in certain cases. February 20, 1917.[[H. R. 8492](/us/bill/64/hr/8492).][[Public, No. 340](/us/pl/64/340).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Public lands.Homestead rights allowed purchasers of ceded Indian lands. That from and after the passage of this Act any person who has heretofore entered under the homestead laws, and paid a price equivalent to or greater than $4 per acre, lands embraced in a ceded Indian reservation, shall, upon proof of such fact, if otherwise qualified, be entitled to the benefits of the homestead law as though such former entry had not been *Proviso*.Full price payment, etc.made: *Provided,* That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to any person who has failed to pay the full price for his former entry, or whose former entry was canceled for fraud.
Approved, February 20, 1917.