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section twenty-two hundred and eighty-nine from paying the mini- 

 mum price for the quantity of land so entered at any time after the 

 expiration of fourteen calendar months from the date of such entry, 

 and obtaining a patent therefor, upon making proof of settlement and 

 of residence and cultivation for such period of fourteen months, and 

 the provision of this section shall apply to lands on the ceded portion 

 of tbb Sioux "Reservation by act approved March second, eighteen hun- 

 dred and eighty-nine, in South Dakota, but shall not relieve said set- 

 tlers from any payments now required by law. (As amended Mar. 3, 

 1891, 26 Stat., 1098.) 



Race and color. SEC. 2302. No distinction shall be made in the construction or exe- 

 cution of this chapter on account of race or color; nor shall any 

 mineral lands be liable ot entry and settlement under its provision. 



SPECIAL PROVISIONS IN FAVOR OF SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. 



Revised Statutes sections 2300; 2304 and 2305, both as amended by Act of March 1, 1901 

 (31 Stat.. 487); 2306 and sundry civil appropriation act of August 18. 1894. sec. 1 (28 

 Stat., 397); 2307; 2308 and act of June 16, 1898 (30 Stat., 473); 2309. 



THREE YEAR HOMESTEAD LAW. 



Act of June 6, 1912 (37 Stat. 123). 



That section twenty- two hundred and ninety-one and section 

 twenty-two hundred and ninety-seven of the Revised Statutes of the 

 United States be amended to read as follows: 



Certificate and "SEC. 2291. No certificate, however, shall be given or patent issued 

 therefor until the expiration of three years from the date of such entry; 

 and if at the expiration of such time, or at any time within two years 



Eights of widow thereafter, the person making such entry, or if he be dead his widow, 

 or in case of her death his heirs or devisee, or in case of a widow 

 making such entry her heiis or devisee, in case of her death, proves 

 by himself and by two credible witnesses that he, she, or they have 

 a habitable house upon the land and have actually resided upon and 

 cultivated the same for the term of three years succeeding the time of 

 filing the affidavit, and makes affidavit that no part of such land has 

 been alienated, except as provided in section twenty-two hundred 

 and eighty-eight, and that he, she, or they will bear true allegiance 

 to the Government of the United States, then in such case he, she, 

 or they, if at chat time citizens of the United States, shall be entitled 

 to a patent, as in other cases provided by law: Provided, That upon 



Leaves of ab- filing in the local land office notice of the beginning of such absence, 



sence ' the entryman shall be entitled to a continuous leave of absence from. 



the land for a period not exceeding five months in each year after 



establishing residence, and upon the termination of such absence the 



entryman shall file a notice of such termination in the local land office, 



Commutation, but in case of commutation the fourteen months' actual residence 

 as now required by law must be shown, and the person commuting 

 must be at the time a citizen of the United States: Provided, That 

 when the person making entry dies before the offer of final proof 

 those succeeding to the entry must show that the entryman had 

 complied with the law in all respects to the date of his death and that 

 they have since complied with the law in all respects, as would have 

 been required of the entryman had he lived, excepting that they 

 are relieved from any requirement of residence upon the land: 

 Provided further, That the entryman shall, in order to comply with 



Cultivation. the requirements of cultivation herein provided for, cultivate not 

 less than one-sixteenth of the area of his entry, beginning with the 

 second year of the entry, and not less than one-eighth, beginning 

 with the third year of the entry, and until final proof, except that 

 in the case of entries under section six of the enlarged-homestead 

 law double the area of cultivation herein provided shall be required, 

 but the Secretary of the Interior may, upon a satisfactory showing, 

 under rules and regulations prescribed by him, reduce the required 

 area of cultivation: Provided, That the above provision as to culti- 

 vation shall not apply to entries under the act of April twenty-eighth, 



