Chapter 3. To authorize certain desert-land claimants who entered the military or naval service of the United States during the war with Germany to make final proof of their entries
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CHAP. 3.— An Act To authorize certain desert-land claimants who entered the military or naval service of the United States during the war with Germany to make final proof of their entries. December 15, 1921.[[H.R. 7161](/us/bill/67/hr/7161).][[Public, No. 111](/us/67/pl/111).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Completion of homestead entries by settlers serving In World War.Vol. 41, p. 1202, amended.
That 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,” be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto at the end thereof the following matter, which snail be known and designated as section 2 of said Act: " “Sec. 2. Desert-land entry-men serving in World War, physically unable to accomplish reclamation, may receive patent, etc.Vol. 35, p. 52.
That any entryman under the desert-land laws, or any person entitled to preference right of entry under section 1 of the Act approved March 28, 1908 (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page 52), who after application or entry for surveyed lands or legal initiation of claim for unsurveyed lands, 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 service is unable to accomplish reclamation of and payment for the land, may make proof without further reclamation thereof or payments thereon under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and receive patent for the *Proviso*.Prior survey required.land by him so entered or claimed, if found entitled thereto: *Provided*, That no such patent shall issue prior to the survey of the land.
” " Approved, December 15, 1921.