Volume 49
Public Law 74–770
To authorize certain homestead entrymen who are disabled World War veterans to make final proof of their entries, and for other purposes.
Approved August 27, 1935
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize certain homestead entrymen who are disabled World War veterans to make final proof of their entries, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That any entryman
Public lands.
Disabled World War veterans may make final proof of entries, without residential, etc., requirements.
under the homestead laws of the United States who on or after April 6, 1917, and prior to November 12, 1918, enlisted or was a member of the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps during the war with Germany, who was honorably discharged from such service, whose entry was made prior to January 1, 1935, and who because of physical or mental disabilities has been or may hereafter become unable to perform the prescribed residential and improvement and other requirements may make proof without further residence, improvement, or cultivation, at such time and place as may be authorized and under such regulations to be issued by the Secretary of the Interior, and receive patent to the land by him so entered upon.
Approved, August 27, 1935.