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Sec. 5. And be it further enacted . That if, at any time after the 

 filing of the affidavit, as required in the second section of this 

 act, and before the expiration of the five years aforesaid, it shall 

 be proven, after due notice to the settler, to the satisfaction of the 

 register of the land office, that the person having filed such affi- 

 davit shall have actually changed his or her residence, or abandoned 

 the said land for more than six months at any time, then and in that 

 event the land so entered shall revert to the government. 



Sec. 6. And be it further enacted . That no individual shall be per- 

 mitted to acquire title to more than one quarter section under the 

 provisions of this act; and that the Commissioner of the General 

 Land Office is hereby required to prepare and issue such rules and 

 regulations, consistent with this act, as shall be necessary and 

 proper to carry its provisions into effect; and that the registers 

 and receivers of the several land offices shall be entitled to receive 

 the same compensation for any lands entered under the provisions of 

 this act that they are now entitled to receive when the same quantity 

 of land is entered with money, one half to be paid by the person making 

 the application at the time of so doing, and the other half on the 

 issue of the certificate by the person to whom it may be issued; but 

 this shall not be construed to enlarge the maximum of compensation 

 now prescribed by law for any register or receiver: Provided , That 

 nothing contained in this act shall be so construed as to impair or 

 interfere in any manner whatever with existing preemption rights: 

 And provided , further , That all persons who may have filed their ap- 

 plications for a preemption right prior to the passage of this act, 

 shall be entitled to all privileges of this act: Provided , further . 

 That no person who has served, or may hereafter serve, for a period 

 of not less than fourteen days in the army or navy of the United 

 States, either regular or volunteer, under the laws thereof, during 

 the existence of an actual war, domestic or foreign, shall be deprived 

 of the benefits of this act on account of not having attained the age 

 of twenty-one years. 



Sec. 7. And be it further enacted , That the fifth section of the 

 act entitled "An act in addition to an act more effectually to provide 

 for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, and 

 for other purposes," approved the third of March, in the year eighteen 

 hundred and fifty-seven, shall extend to all oaths, affirmations, and 

 affidavits, required or authorized by this act. 



Sec. 8. And be it further enacted . That nothing in this act shall 

 be so construed as to prevent any person who has availed him or her- 

 self of the benefits of the first section of this act, from paying 

 the minimum price, or the price to which the same nay have graduated, 

 for the quantity of land so entered at any time before the expiration 



