Volume 39
Public Law 64–98
To allow additional entries under the enlarged homestead Act.
Approved February 20, 1917
Statutory text
An Act
To allow additional entries under the enlarged homestead Act.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That any person otherwise
Public lands.
Additional lands allowed homestead entrymen.
qualified who has obtained title under the homestead laws to less than one quarter section of land may make entry and obtain title under
Vol. 35, p. 639.
the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for enlarged homesteads,” approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, and an Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act to provide for an enlarged homestead,” for such an
Vol. 36, p. 531.
area of public land as will, when one-half of such area is added to the area of the lands to which he has already obtained title, not exceed one quarter section: Provided, That this Act shall not be construed
Proviso.
Soldiers’ entries excepted.
R. S., sec. 2306, p. 422.
to apply to soldiers’ additional homestead entries made under section twenty-three hundred and six, United States Revised Statutes, or Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.
Approved, February 20, 1917.