Public Law 65–21

That the Act entitled “An

Public lands.

Homestead entries.

Vol. 38, p. 704, amended.

Act to provide for leave of absence for homestead entrymen in one or two periods,” approved August twenty-second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, be, and hereby is, amended to read as follows:

“That the entryman mentioned in section twenty-two hundred and

Division of leave of absence allowed.

R. S., sec. 2291, p. 420, amended.

ninety-one of Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve. Thirty-seventh

Vol. 37, p. 123.

Statutes, one hundred and twenty-three, upon filing in the local land office notice of the beginning of such absence at his option shall be entitled to a leave of absence in one or two continuous periods, not exceeding in the aggregate five months in each year after establishing residence: Provided, That the register and receiver of the local land

Proviso.

Residence reduced for climatic conditions.

office under rules and regulations made by the Commissioner of the General Land Office may, upon proper showing, upon application of the homesteader, and only for climatic conditions, which makes residence on the homestead for seven months in each year a hardship, reduce the term of residence to not more than six months in each year, over a period of four years, or to not more than five months each year over a period of five years, but the total residence required shall

Total required, etc.

in no event exceed twenty-five months, not less than five of which shall be in each year; proof to be made within five years after entry; and upon the termination of such absence, in each period, the entryman shall file a notice of such termination in the local land office; but

Commutation restriction.

in case of commutation the fourteen months’ actual residence, as now required by law, must be shown, and the person commuting be at the time a citizen of the United States.”