Chapter 90. For the relief of bona fide settlers who intermarry after having complied with the homestead law for one year
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CHAP. 90.— An Act For the relief of bona fide settlers who intermarry after having complied with the homestead law for one year. March 1, 1921. [[S. 3225](/us/bill/66/s/3225).] [[Public, No. 339](/us/pl/66/339).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Public lands.Homestead patents to intermarrying settlers.Vol. 38, p.312, amended. That the Act entitled “An Act providing that the marriage of a homestead entryman to a homestead entrywoman shall not impair the right of either to a patent, after compliance with the law a year, to apply to existing entries,” approved April 6, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes, page 312), be, and the same is hereby, *Proviso*.Bona fide settlers included.amended by adding thereto the following:
“*Provided further,* That in the administration of this Act the terms ‘entryman’ and ‘entrywoman’ shall be construed to include bona fide settlers who have complied with the homestead law for at least one year next preceding such marriage.” Approved, March 1, 1921.