Chapter 86. Providing for an amendment to section twenty-two hundred and ninety-three of the Revised Statutes, allowing homestead and other public land affidavits to be taken before the military commander of any person engaged in military or naval service of the United States
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CHAP. 86.— An Act Providing for an amendment to section twenty-two hundred and ninety-three of the Revised Statutes, allowing homestead and other public land affidavits to be taken before the military commander of any person engaged in military or naval service of the United States. October 6, 1917.[[H. R. 5082](/us/bill/65/hr/5082).][[Public, No. 71](/us/pl/65/71).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That during the continuancePublic lands.Affidavits of persons in service during the war may be made before officer of armed force. of the present war with Germany, and until his discharge from service, any man serving in the armed forces of the United States, who, prior to the beginning of his services was a settler, an applicant, or entryman under the land laws of the United States, or who has, prior to enlistment, filed a contest, with the view of exercising preference right of entry therefor, may make any affidavit required by law or regulation of the department, affecting such application, entry, or contest, or necessary to the making of entry in the case of the succesful termination of such contest awarding him preference right of entry, before his commanding officer as provided in section twenty-two[R.
S., sec. 2293, p. 421.](/us/rs/s2293/p421)Legal effect, etc. hundred and ninety-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which affidavits shall be as binding in law and with like penalties as if taken before the Register of the United States Land Office. Approved, October 6, 1917.