APPENDIX B 



THE SMOOT-MONDELL BILL FOR HOME- 

 STEADING OF DRY-FARM LANDS 



Section i 



That any person who is a quaUfied entryman under 

 the homestead laws of the United States may enter, 

 by legal subdivisions, under the provisions of this 

 act, in the states of Colorado, Montana, Nevada, 

 Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, and the 

 territories of New Mexico and Arizona, 320 acres, 

 or less, of nonmineral, nonirrigable, unreserved, and 

 unappropriated surveyed public lands which do not 

 contain merchantable timber, located in a reasonably 

 compact body, and not over one and one half miles 

 in extreme length. Provided, that no lands shall be 

 subject to entry under the provisions of this act until 

 such lands shall have been designated by the secre- 

 tary of the interior as not being in his opinion sus- 

 ceptible of irrigation at a reasonable cost from any 

 known source of water supply. 



Section 2 



That any person applying to enter land under the 

 provisions of this act shall make and subscribe, 

 before proper officials, an affidavit, as required by 

 Section 2290 of the Revised Statutes, and in addition 



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