Chapter 110. To amend the homestead law in its application to Alaska, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 110.— An Act To amend the homestead law in its application to Alaska, and for other purposes.June 28, 1918.[[H. R. 8563](/us/bill/65/hr/8563).][[Public, No. 180](/us/pl/65/180).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Alaska.Homestead entries allowed in.Vol. 39, p. 352, amended. That the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to amend the United States homestead law in its application to Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved July eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby amended to read as follows:
" “Section 1. Homestead laws made applicable. That every person who is qualified under existing laws to make homestead entry of the public lands of the United States 633who has settled upon or who shall hereafter settle upon any of the public lands of the United States situated in the District of Alaska, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, with the intention of claiming the same under the homestead laws, shall, subject to the provisions Conditions.Vol. 32, p. 1028.and limitations of the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, chapter one thousand and two, United States Statutes at Large, page one thousand and twenty-eight, be entitled to enter one hundred and sixty acres or a less quantity of unappropriated public land in said District of Alaska, and no more, and a former Former entries not a bar.homestead entry in any other State or Territory shall not be a bar to a homestead entry in Alaska: *Provided*, That nothing herein contained *Proviso*.Prior claims.shall be construed to limit or curtail the area of any homestead claim heretofore lawfully initiated.
“Sec. 2. That if the system of public surveys has not been extended Entries on unsurveyed lands.over the land included in a homestead entry, the entryman may, after due compliance with the terms of the homestead law in the matter of residence, cultivation, and improvement, submit to the register and receiver a showing as to such compliance, duly corroborated by two witnesses, and if such evidence satisfactorily shows that the homesteader is in a position to submit acceptable final proof the surveyor general of the Territory will be so advised and will, not later than the next succeeding surveying season, issue Surveys to be made.proper instructions for the survey of the land so entered, without expense to the entryman, who may thereafter submit final proof as in similar entries of surveyed lands.
So far as practicable, such survey shall follow the general system of public-land surveys, and the entryman shall conform his boundaries thereto: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.Special survey at expense of entryman.nothing herein shall prevent the homesteader from securing earlier action on his entry by a special survey at his own expense, if he so elects. “Sec. 3. That there shall be excepted from homestead settlement Lands excepted.and entry under this Act the lands in Annette and Pribilof Islands, the islands leased or occupied for the propagation of foxes, and such other lands as have been, or may be, reserved or withdrawn from settlement or entry.
” " Approved, June 28, 1918.