Chapter 114. providing that entrymen for homesteads within the reclamation projects may assign their entries upon satisfactory proof of residence, improvement, and cultivation for five years, the same as though said entry had been made under the original homestead Act.” May 8, 1916.[[H
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CHAP. 114.— AN ACT To amend the Act of June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act providing that entrymen for homesteads within the reclamation projects may assign their entries upon satisfactory proof of residence, improvement, and cultivation for five years, the same as though said entry had been made under the original homestead Act.” May 8, 1916.[[H. R. 384](/us/bill/64/hr/384).][[Public, No. 72](/us/pl/64/72).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and. House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Act of June twenty-third, Public lands.
Assignment of homestead entries in reclamation projects. Vol. 36, p. 592, amended.nineteen hundred and ten (Public, Two hundred and forty- three, Thirty-sixth Statutes, page five hundred and ninety-two), entitled “An Act providing that entrymen for homesteads within reclamation projects may assign their entries upon satisfactory proof of residence, improvement, and cultivation for five years, the same as though said entry had been made under the original homestead Act,” is hereby amended by adding the following proviso:
"*“Provided,* That in the absence of any intervening valid adverse Assignments confirmed of entries limited by farm units.interests any assignment made between June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and ten, and January first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, of land upon which the assignor has submitted satisfactory final proof and the assignee purchased with the belief that the assignment was valid and under the Act of June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and ten, is hereby confirmed, and the assignee shall be entitled to the land assigned as under the Act of June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and ten, notwithstanding that said original entry was conformed to farm units and that the part assigned was canceled and eliminated from said entry prior to the date of final proof: *Provided further,* That Conditions.all entries so assigned shall be subject to the limitations, terms, and conditions of the reclamation Act and Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, and all of said assignees whose entries are hereby confirmed shall, as a condition to receiving patent, make the proof heretofore required of assignees.”.
" Approved, May 8, 1916.