Public Law 64–228

That every person who is qualified under existing laws to make homestead entry of the public lands of the United States who has settled upon or who shall hereafter settle upon any of the public lands of the United States situated in the District of Alaska, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, with the

Conditions.

Vol. 32, p. 1028.

intention of claiming the same under the homestead laws, shall, subject to the provisions and limitations of the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, chapter one thousand and two, United States Statutes at Large, page one thousand and twenty-eight, be entitled to enter one hundred and sixty acres or a less quantity of unappropriated public land in said District of Alaska,

Former entry elsewhere not a bar.

Proviso.

Prior claims.

and no more, and a former homestead entry in any other State or Territory shall not be a bar to a homestead entry in Alaska: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to limit or curtail the area of any homestead claim heretofore lawfully initiated.

Sec. 2.

That there shall be excepted from homestead settlement and entry under this Act the lands in Annette and Pribilof Islands, the islands leased or occupied for the propagation of foxes, and such other lands as have been or may be reserved or withdrawn from settlement or entry.