Chapter 64. To authorize absence by homestead settlers and entrymen, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 64.— An Act To authorize absence by homestead settlers and entrymen, and for other purposes. September 29, 1919. [[S. 277](/us/bill/66/s/277).] [[Public, No. 52](/us/pl/66/52).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That every person who, after Public lands.Homestead entrymen discharged from Army, etc., allowed absence for vocational rehabilitation.Vol. 40, p. 617.Vol. 40, p. 407.discharge from the military or naval service of the United States during the war against Germany and its allies, is furnished any course of vocational rehabilitation under the terms of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act approved June 27, 1918, upon the ground that he comes within article 111 of the Act of October 6, 1917, fortieth volume, Statutes at Large, page 398, and who before entering upon such course shall have made entry upon or application for public lands of the United States under the homestead laws, or who has settled or shall hereafter settle upon public lands, shall be entitled to a leave of absence from his land for the purpose of undergoing training by Residence construed. *Proviso.*Cultivation, etc., required.the Federal Board of Vocational Education, and such absence, while actually engaged in such training shall be counted as constructive residence: *Provided,* That no patent shall issue to any homestead settler who has not resided upon, improved, and cultivated his homestead for a period of at least one year.
Approved, September 29, 1919.