Volume 47
Public Law 72–178
To extend the period of time during which final proof may be offered by homestead entrymen.
Approved May 13, 1932
Statutory text
AN ACT
To extend the period of time during which final proof may be offered by homestead entrymen.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to extend for a period of not to exceed two years the period during which final proof may be offered by any homestead entryman upon public lands of the United States if the date requiring the submission of such final proof by any such entryman under existing law falls within the period beginning July 1, 1931, and ending December 31, 1933: Provided, That any such
Proviso.
Adverse conditions to be shown.
entryman shall be required to show that it is a hardship upon himself to meet the requirements incident to final proof upon the date required by existing law, due to adverse weather or economic conditions.
Sec. 2.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make such
Rules to be prescribed.
rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Approved, May 13, 1932.