Chapter 214. Authorizing leave of absence to homestead settlers upon unsurveyed lands
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CHAP. 214.— An Act Authorizing leave of absence to homestead settlers upon unsurveyed lands. July 3, 1916. [[S. 1066](/us/bill/64/s/1066).] [[Public, No. 136](/us/pl/64/136).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Public lands. Leave of absence allowed settlers on unsurveyed lands. That any qualified person who has heretofore or shall hereafter in good faith make settlement upon and improve unsurveyed unreserved unappropriated public lands of the United States with intention, upon survey, of entering same under the homestead laws shall be entitled to a leave of absence in one or two periods not exceeding in the aggregate five months in each year after establishment of residence: *Provided, *That he shall*Proviso.*Notices, etc., required. have plainly marked on the ground the exterior boundaries of the lands claimed and have filed in the local land office notice of the approximate location of the lands settled upon and claimed, of the period of intended absence, and that he shall upon the termination of the absence and his return to the land file notice thereof in the local land office.
Approved, July 3, 1916.