Public Law 46–63

That it shall be lawful for homestead and preemption settlers on the public lands, and in all cases where preemptions are authorized by law, where crops have been or may be destroyed or seriously injured by grasshoppers, to leave and be absent from said lands, under such rules and regulations, as to proof of the same, as the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall prescribe; but in no case shall such absence extend beyond one year continuously; and during such absence no adverse rights shall attach to said lands, such settlers being allowed to resume and perfect their settlement as though no such absence had occurred.

Sec. 2.

That the time for making final proof and payment by preemptors whose crops shall have been destroyed or injured as aforesaid, may, in the discretion of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, be extended fox* one year after the expiration of the term of absence

Settlers under timber culture act.

1873, ch. 277,

17 Stat., 605.

Provided for in the first section of this act; and all the rights and privileges extended by this act to homestead and preemption settlers shall apply to and include the settlers under an act entitled “An act to encourage the growth of timber on Western prairies” approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy three, and the acts amendatory thereof.