Chapter 125. To amend the Act of March 1, 1921 (Forty-first Statutes, page 1202), entitled “An Act to authorize certain homestead settlers or entrymen who entered the military or naval service of the United States during the war with Germany to make final proof of their entries.” April 7, 1922.[[H
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CHAP. 125.— An Act To amend the Act of March 1, 1921 (Forty-first Statutes, page 1202), entitled “An Act to authorize certain homestead settlers or entrymen who entered the military or naval service of the United States during the war with Germany to make final proof of their entries.” April 7, 1922.[[H. R. 8815](/us/bill/67/hr/8815).][[Public, No. 188](/us/pl/67/188).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public lands.Homestead and desert land entrymen. etc., serving in World War, physically unable to complete entry may receive patent.Vol. 41, p. 1202, amended.Vol. 32, p. 388.
That the Act approved March 1, 1921 (Forty-first Statutes, page 1202), be amended to read as follows: “That any bona fide settler, applicant, or entryman under the homestead laws of the United States, or any desert land entryman whose entry is subject to the provisions of the Act of June 17, 1902 (Thirty-second Statutes, page 388), who, after settlement, application, or entry, and prior to November 11, 1918, enlisted or was actually engaged in the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps during the war with Germany, who has been honorably discharged and because of physical incapacities due to the service is unable to return to the land, may make final proof, without further residence, improvement, cultivation, or reclamation, at such time and place as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, and receive patent to the land by him so entered or settled upon, subject to the provisions of the Act or Acts under which such settlement or entry*Provisos*.Entries under reclamation Act.Vol. 38, p. 686. was made: *Provided*, That no such patent shall issue prior to the conformation of the entry to a single farm unit, as required by the Act of August 13, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes, page 686): *And provided further*,Charges, etc., to be paid.
That this Act shall not be construed to exempt or relieve such applicant or entryman from payment of any lawful fees, commissions, purchase moneys, water charges, or other sums due to the United States, or its successors in control of the reclamation project, in connection with such lands. ” Approved, April 7, 1922.