Chapter 195. To amend section three of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for stock-raising homesteads, and for other purposes,” approved December twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen
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CHAP. 195.— An Act To amend section three of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for stock-raising homesteads, and for other purposes,” approved December twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen. October 25, 1918.[[S. 2493](/us/bill/65/s/2493).][[Public, No. 229](/us/pl/65/229).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public lands.Stock-raising homesteads on.Vol. 39, p. 863, amended. That section three of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for stock-raising homesteads, and for other purposes,” approved December twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be amended to read as follows:
" “Sec. 3. Entries of 640 acres allowed.That any qualified homestead entryman may make entry under the homestead laws of lands so designated by the Secretary of the Interior, according to legal subdivisions, in areas not exceeding six hundred and forty acres, and in compact form so far as may be subject to the provisions of this Act, and secure title thereto by *Provisos*.Additions to former entries.Vol. 39, p. 862.compliance with the terms of the homestead laws: *Provided*, That a former homestead entry of land of the character described in section two hereof shall not be a bar to the entry of a tract within a radius of twenty miles from such former entry under the provisions of this 1017Act, which, together with the former entry, shall not exceed six hundred Limit.and forty acres, subject to the requirements of law as to residence and improvements, except that no residence shall be required No residence on addition, if on former.on such additional entry if the entryman owns and is residing on his former entry: *Provided further*, That the entryman shall be required Selection of contiguous lands.to enter all contiguous areas of the character herein described open to entry prior to the entry of any noncontiguous land: *And provided further*, Improvements required instead of cultivation.That instead of cultivation as required by the homestead laws the entryman shall be required to make permanent improvements upon the land entered before final proof is submitted tending to increase the value of the same for stock-raising purposes of the value of not less than $1.25 per acre, and at least one-half of such improvements shall be placed upon the land within three years after the date of entry thereof.
” " Approved, October 25, 1918.