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A Glimpse of the Big Wheat Territory Surrounding Great Falls. 



(c) Foreign-born persons who have not declared their intention to become 

 citizens of tlie United States. 



(d) Persons who are the owners of more than 160 acres of land in the United 

 States. 



(e) Persons under the age of 21 years who are not the heads of families except 

 minors who make entry as heirs, or wlio have served in the Army or Navy during 

 the existence of an actual war for at least 14 days. 



(f) Persons who have acquired title to or are claiming, under any of the agri- 

 cultural public land laws, through settlement or entry made since August 30, 1890, 

 any other lands which, with the lands last applied for, would amount in the aggre- 

 gate to more than 320 acres. 



A married woman who has all of the other qualifications of a homesteader may 

 make a homestead entry under any one of the following conditions: 



(a) Where she has been actually deserted by her husband. 



(b) Where her husband is incapacitated by disease or otherwise from earning 

 a support for his family and the wife is really the head and main support of the 

 family. 



(c) Where the husband is confined in a penitentiary and she is actually the 

 head of the family. 



(d) Where the married woman is the heir of a settler or contestant who dies 

 before making entry. 



(e) Where a married woman made improvements and resided on the land ap- 

 plied for before her marriage, she may enter them after marriage if her husband is 

 not holding other lands under an unperfected homestead entry at the time she ap- 

 plies to make entry. 



