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conditions. The area already disposed of in the shape of free 

 grants extends to nearly 18,000,000 acres. The area surveyed and 

 yet to dispose of extends to 85,900,000 acres. The conditions of 

 the grant are as follows :— 



I. Residence 



1 . A homesteader may perform the residence duties by living in 

 a house on his homestead at least six months in each year during a 

 term of three years. Before applying for patent the entrant must 

 have upon his homestead a dwelling-house worth at least $300. 

 This requirement applies to all entries granted on and after 1st 

 February 1909. 



2. A homesteader may, if he so desires, perform the required 

 six months' residence duties by living on farming land owned 

 solely by him, not less than eighty acres in extent, in the vicinity 

 of his homestead. Joint ownership in land will not meet this 

 requirement. 



3. If the father, mother, son, daughter, brother, or sister of a 

 homesteader has permanent residence on farming land owned solely 

 by him or her, not less than eighty acres in extent, in the vicinity 

 of the homestead, or upon a homestead entered for by him or her 

 in the vicinity, such homesteader may perform his own residence 

 duties by living with the father, mother, brother, sister, son or 

 daughter, as the case may be. 



4. The term " vicinity " in the two preceding paragraphs is 

 defined as meaning not more than nine miles in a direct line, ex- 

 clusive of the width of road allowances crossed in the measurement. 



5. A homesteader, intending to perform his residence duties in 

 accordance with the above, while living with relatives, or on farming 

 land owned by himself, must notify the agent for the district of 

 such intention, and keep him informed as to his post-office address ; 

 otherwise his entry is liable to become the subject of cancellation 

 proceedings. 



6. A settler within the pre-emption tract who has acquired a 

 homestead and pre-emption may fulfil the residence duties in 

 connection with his homestead by living on his pre-emption. 



7. Sleeping on a homestead at night for a period of six months 

 in the year, while following elsewhere during the day time a trade 

 or calling other than agriculture, will not be accepted as residence 

 within the meaning of the Act, unless the residence of the home- 

 steader is established by his family living continuously on the home- 

 stead during such periods of residence and by the homestead being 

 his own sole place of abode during such periods. 



8. Residence for six months in each of three years, after home- 

 stead entry, satisfies the residence requirement necessary to entitle 

 the entrant to patent, without regard to periods during each year 

 when the residence was done, but absence from the land for more 

 than six months, at any one time, renders the entry subject to 

 application for cancellation. 



