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thereto shall make affidavit that the land sought 

 to be entered is of the character described in Section 1 

 of this act and shall pay the fees now required to be 

 paid under the homestead laws. 



Section 3 



That any homestead entryman of lands of the 

 character herein described, upon which final proof 

 has not been made, shall have the right to enter pub- 

 lic lands, subject to the provisions of this act, con- 

 tiguous to his former entry which shall not exceed 

 320 acres, and residence and cultivation of the orig- 

 inal entry shall be deemed as residence upon arid 

 cultivation of the additional entry. 



Section 4 



That at the time of making final proof, as pro- 

 vided in Section 22.59 of the Revised Statutes, the 

 entryman under this act shall, in addition to the 

 proofs and affidavits required under the said section, 

 prove by two creditable witnesses that at least one 

 eighth of the area embraced in this entry was con- 

 tinuously cultivated to agricultural crops other than 

 prairie grasses, beginning with the second year of 

 the entry, and at least one fourth of the area em- 

 braced in the entry was so continuously cultivated 

 beginning with the third year on the entry. 



Section 5 



That nothing herein contained shall be held to 

 affect the right of a qualified entryman to make 



