Volume 39
Public Law 64–101
To restore homestead rights in certain cases.
Approved February 20, 1917
Statutory text
An Act
To restore homestead rights in certain cases.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That from and after the passage of this Act any person who has heretofore entered under the homestead laws, and paid a price equivalent to or greater than $4 per acre, lands embraced in a ceded Indian reservation, shall, upon proof of such fact, if otherwise qualified, be entitled to the benefits of the homestead law as though such former entry had not been
Proviso.
Full price payment, etc.
made: Provided, That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to any person who has failed to pay the full price for his former entry, or whose former entry was canceled for fraud.
Approved, February 20, 1917.