Chapter 220. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for an enlarged homestead,” approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, by adding a new section to be known as section seven
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CHAP. 220.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for an enlarged homestead,” approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, by adding a new section to be known as section seven. July 3, 1916[[H. R. 8654](/us/bill/64/hr/8654)][[Public, No. 142](/us/pl/64/142)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Public lands.Enlarged homesteads.Vol. 35, p. 640, amended. That the Act entitled “An Act to provide for an enlarged homestead,” approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, be amended by adding thereto an additional section to be known as section seven:
" “Sec. 7. Noncontiguous lands allowed to complete entry. That any person who has made or shall make homestead entry of less than three hundred and twenty acres of lands of the character herein described, and who shall have submitted final proof thereon, shall have the right to enter public lands subject to the provisions of this Act, not contiguous to his first entry, which shall not with the original entry exceed three hundred and twenty acres: *Provisos*.Condition.*Provided*, That the land originally entered and that covered by the additional entry shall first have been designated as subject to this Actual residence and cultivation required.Act as provided by section one thereof: *Provided further*, That in no case shall patent issue for the land covered by such additional entry until the person making same shall have actually and in conformity with the homestead laws resided upon and cultivated the lands so additionally entered, and otherwise complied with such laws, except 345that where the land embraced in the additional entry is located notResidence on former entry accepted. exceeding twenty miles from the land embraced in the original entry no residence shall be required on such additional entry if the entryman is residing on his former entry: *And provided further*, That thisSoldiers’ entry rights not affected. section shall not be construed as affecting any rights as to location of soldiers’ additional homesteads under section twenty-three hundred and six of the Revised Statutes.”[R.
S., sec. 2306, p. 422](/us/rs/s2306/p422). " Approved, July 3, 1916.