Volume 49
Public Law 74–560
To eliminate the requirement of cultivation in connection with certain homestead entries.
Approved August 19, 1935
Statutory text
AN ACT
To eliminate the requirement of cultivation in connection with certain homestead entries.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That, exclusive of
Homestead entries, public lands.
Cultivation requirements not applicable to certain existing entries.
Alaska, the provisions of the homestead laws requiring cultivation of the land entered shall not be applicable to existing homestead entries made prior to February 5, 1935, or thereafter if based upon valid settlement prior to said date, and no patent shall be withheld for failure to cultivate such lands: Provided, That this Act shall not be
Proviso.
Designated conservation laws not affected.
Vol. 34, p. 233; U. S. C., p. 664.
construed to affect any provision of law requiring the cultivation of lands subject to the reclamation laws, nor to apply to entries made under the Forest Homestead Act of June 11, 1906 (34 Stat. 233).
Approved, August 19, 1935.