472 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 190, 191, 192. 1879. by said act for the lands so claimed and occupied by them in good faith, not exceeding one year on each payment so required to be made. Approved, March 3, 1879. March 3, 1879. CHAP. 191.-An act to grant additional rights to homestead settlers on public lands _..;;. within railroad limits. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rqiresentatives of the United Pubns lands. States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage }Io¤}¢‘S*¤$=¤l_ <*¤· of this act, the even sections within the limits of any grant of public
“‘ l;"‘t‘“ °f lands to any railroad company, or to any military road company, or to
gm} any State in aid of any railroad or military road, shall be open to settlers under the homestead laws to the extent of one hundred and sixty acres to each settler, and any person who has, under existing laws, taken a homestead on any even section within the limits of any railroad or military road land- grant, and who, by existing laws shall have been restricted to eighty acres, may enter under the homestead laws an additional eighty acres adjoining the land embraced in his original entry, if such additional land be subject to entry; or if such person so elect, he may surrender his entry to the United States for cancellation, and thereupon be entitled to ent-er lands under the homestead laws the same as if the surrendered entry had not been made. And any person so making additional entry of eighty acres, or new entry after the surrender and cancellation of his original entry, shall be permitted so to do without pay- ment of fees and commissions; and the residence and cultivation of such person upon and of the land embraced in his original entry shall be considered residence and cultivation for the Same length of time upon and of the land embraced in his additional or new entry, and shall be deducted from the five years’ residence and cultivation required by law: havin. Provided, That in no case shall patent issue upon an additional or new homestead entry under this act until the person has actually, and in conformity with the homestead laws, occupied, resided upon, and cultivated the land embraced therein at least one year. Approved, March 3, 1879. March 3, 1879. CHAP. 192.-An act to provide additional regulations for homestead and preemp- ·······*—··— tion entries of public lands. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Public lands. States of America in Congress assembled, That before final proof shall be H0,,,,.m,,.i and submitted by any person claiming to enter agricultural lands under the pu·-emption en- laws providing for pre-emption or homestead entries, such person shall
- ¤‘¤°¤· •iile with the register of the proper land-officea notice of his or her inten-
Notice of anal tion to make such proof, stating therein the description of lands to be proof- entered, and the names of the witnesses by whom the necessary facts will be established. Publication. Upon the tiling of such notice, the register shall publish a notice, that such application has been made once a. week for the period of thirty days, in a newspaper to be by him designated as published nearest to such land, and he shall also post such notice in some conspicuous place in his office for the same period. Such notice shall contain the names of the witnesses as stated in the application. At the expiration of said period of thirty days, the claimant shall be entitled to make proof in the manner heretolore provided by law. The Secretary of the Interior shall make all necessary rules for giving effect to the foregoing provisions. Approved, March 3, 1879.
