Chapter 245. For the relief of certain homestead entrymen
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CHAP. 245.— An Act For the relief of certain homestead entrymen. March 4, 1923.[[H. R. 2347](/us/bill/67/hr/2347).][[Public, No. 496](/us/67/pl/496).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That anyPublic lands.Homestead entrymen on enlarged homestead lands in national forests allowed, additional entry therefor within 20 miles of original entry.Vol. 35. p. 639.Vol. 36, p. 531. homestead entryman of one hundred and sixty acres or less of lands which have been or may hereafter be designated or classified by the Secretary of the Interior as subject to entry under the provisions of the Enlarged Homestead Act of February 19, 1909, or June 17, 1910, who has not submitted final proof upon his existing entry, and any homestead entryman who has submitted final proof, or received patent, for such an amount of lands which have been or may hereafter be designated or classified by the Secretary of the Interior as of the character described in said Act, and who owns and resides upon the said homestead entry, where said lands are within a national forest, may make an additional entry for and obtain patent to such an amount of land, of that same character, not in a national forest, and within a radius of twenty miles from said homestead entry, as, when the area thereof is added to the area of the original entry, will not exceed three hundred and twenty acres, and residence upon the original entry shall be credited on both entries; butCultivation required. cultivation must be made on the additional entry as required by said Act.
For the purposes of this Act the Secretary of the Interior isDesignation of enlarged homestead lands. authorized to designate as subject to the Enlarged Homestead Acts lands embraced, at the time of such designation, within valid subsisting entries within national forests. Sec. 2. That any homestead entryman of one hundred and sixtyHomestead entrymen on stock raising lands in national forests allowed additional entry therefor within radius of 20 miles of original entry.Vol. 39, p. 362. acres or less of lands which have been or may hereafter be designated or classified by the Secretary of the Interior as subject to entry under the provisions of the Stock Raising Homestead Act of December 29, 1916, who has not submitted final proof upon his existing entry, and also any homestead entryman who has submitted final proof or received patent, for such an amount of lands that are of the character described as subject to entry under the provisions of the said Stock Raising Homestead Act, and who owns and resides upon the said homestead entry, where said lands are within a national forest, may make an additional entry for and obtain patent to such an amount of land of that same character, not in a national forest and within a radius of twenty miles from said homestead entry, as, when the area thereof is added to the area of the original entry, will not exceed six hundred and forty acres, and residence upon the original entry shall be credited on both entries;Improvements required. but improvements must be made on the additional entry equal to $1.25 for each acre thereof For the purposes of this Act theDesignation of stock-raising homestead lands.
Secretary of the Interior is authorized to designate under the Stock Raising Homestead Act lands embraced, at the time of such designation, within valid subsisting entries within national forests. Approved, March 4, 1923.