Chapter 165. Validating certain applications for and entries of public lands, and for other purposes
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Chap. 165: Validating certain applications for and entries of public lands, and for other purposes. 1929-02-09 165 Chapter 45 Stat. 1156 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 2 public Chapter 165.— An Act Validating certain applications for and entries of public lands, and for other purposes.
February 9, 1929.[[S. 5110](/us/bill/70/s/5110).][[Public, No. 712](/us/pl/70/712).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Public lands.Patents authorized of designated entries. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue patents upon the entries hereinafter named upon which proof compliance with law has been filed, upon the payment of all moneys due thereon: Charles G.
Jewett.Desert-land entry.Desert-land entry, Evanston, Wyoming, numbered 07863, made by Charles G. Jewett on January 5, 1922, for the east half of the southwest quarter and north half of the southeast quarter, section 26, township 34 north, range 114 west, sixth principal meridian. Edwin T. Pfister.Stock-raising homesteads.Stock-raising homestead entries, Cheyenne, Wyoming, numbered 035367, 039066, and 042059, made by Edwin T. Pfister for the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter, section 34, and north half and north half of the south half, section 35, township 38 north, and lot11574, southwest quarter of the northwest quarter, and northwest quarter of the southwest quarter, section 1, township 37 north, range 62 west, sixth principal meridian.
Stock-raising homestead entries, Buffalo, Wyoming, numberedJames R. Rice.Stock-raising homesteads. 024570 and 024571, made by James R. Rice on February 21, 1923, for the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter and the southeast quarter, section 30, and lots 1, 2, and 3, east half of the northwest quarter, southwest quarter of the northeast quarter and the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter, section 31, township 52 north, range 70 west, sixth principal meridian. Sec. 2.
That stock-raising homestead entry, Billings, Montana,Vera M. Watts.Stock-raising homestead, validated. numbered 029013, made by Vera M. Diers (now Vera M. Watts), on December 5, 1927, for the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter and east half of the southeast quarter, section 31, north half of the southwest quarter, section 32, township 7 south, range 58 east, lots 3 and 4, section 5, and lot 1, section 6, township 8 south, range 58 east, Montana principal meridian, be, and the same is hereby validated.
Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is herebyJames C. Willox.Patent to issue. authorized to issue a patent to James C. Willox, of LaBonte, Wyoming, for the north half of the northwest quarter, section 23, township 29 north, range 73 west, sixth principal meridian. Sec. 4. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is herebyLillian Badger.Patent to issue. authorized and directed to issue to Lillian Badger, of Hollywood, California, a patent for lot 5 and the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter, section 26, and lots 1 and 2, section 35, township 15 south, range 35 east, Mount Diablo meridian, California, such patentWater power conditions.Vol. 41, p. 1075.*Proviso*.Time for payment. to contain the terms and conditions of section 24 of the Federal Water Power Act: *Provided*, That Lillian Badger make payment for the land within ninety days after notice of the approval of this Act at the rate of $1.25 per acre.
Sec. 5. That the Commissioner of the General Land Office be, andParis M. McPhetridge.Quitclaim to. he is hereby, authorized to quitclaim to Paris M. McPhetridge the south half of the southeast quarter, section 24, township 5 north, range 13 west, San Bernardino meridian, California. Sec. 6. That homestead entry, Santa Fe, New Mexico, numberedCarolina Salazar.Stock-raising homestead entry validated.Vol. 39, p. 862. 044344, made by Carolina Salazar on February 14, 1923, under the stock-raising homestead Act of December 29, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 862), embracing the south half of the south half, section 12, and the west half of the east half, section 13, township 7 north, range 16 east, New Mexico meridian, be, and the same is hereby validated.
Sec. 7. That no qualified homestead entryman who, prior to NovemberHomestead entrymen in Moffat, Rio Blanco, and Routt Counties, Colo. 1, 1928, made bona fide entry upon lands of the United States in Moffat, Rio Blanco, and Routt Counties, Colorado, under the provisions of the homestead laws of the United States, and who established residence in good faith upon the lands entered by him, shall beNot subject to contest for failure to maintain residence, during cricket incursion. subject to contest for failure to maintain residence or make improvements upon his land subsequent to the incursion of swarms of crickets or grasshoppers upon said land, or in the vicinity; but such entrymanRights reestablished on termination of invasion. shall, within ninety days after issuance of notice by the Secretary of the Interior that the emergency occasioned by such insect invasion has terminated, file in the office of the register of the local land office an affidavit that he has reestablished his residence on the land, with the intention of maintaining the same for a period sufficient to enable him to make final proof: *Provided*, That any entry*Proviso*.Reinstatement of canceled entries. heretofore canceled within said counties may, subject to intervening adverse rights, be reinstated on a proper showing by the entryman that a leave of absence under this Act would have been warranted:1158Residence counted only when actually upon the land.*Provided further*, That no such entryman shall be entitled to have counted as a part of the required period of residence any period of time during which he was not actually upon said land prior to the date of the notice aforesaid.
Approved, February 9, 1929.
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