Chapter 74. To authorize a preference right of entry by certain Carey Act entrymen, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 74.— An Act To authorize a preference right of entry by certain Carey Act entrymen, and for other purposes. February 14, 1920. [[H. R. 2950](/us/bill/66/hr/2950).] [[Public, No. 140](/us/pl/66/140).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of thePublic lands.Entrymen on restored Carey Act lands allowed preference right for homestead, etc.Vol. 28, p. 422. Interior, when restoring to the public domain lands that have been segregated to a State under section 4 of the Act of August 18, 1894, and the Acts and resolutions amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, commonly called the Carey Act, is authorized, in his discretion and under such rules and regulations as he may establish to allow for not exceeding ninety days to any Carey Act entryman a preference right of entry under applicable land laws of any of such lands which such person had entered under and pursuant to the State laws providing for the administration of the grant under the 408Carey Act and upon which such person had established actual bona fide residence or had made substantial and permanent improvements: *Proviso*.Credit for residence on claim.*Provided*, That each entryman shall be entitled to a credit as residence upon his new homestead entry allowed hereunder of the time that he has actually lived upon the claim as a bona fide resident thereof.
Approved, February 14, 1920.