NEW HOMESTEAD
LAW APPLIES
TO ALASKA
Orders were received by the terri
torial land office and field service rep
resentatives of the general land office
which are of vital importance to the
homesteader, and which will be of
great benefit to the Alaskan settler.
The changes made by the new regula
tions, according lo the local officials,
are sweeping.
The commissioner of the general
land office in instructions to all re
corders and receivers of United States
land offices announces that the time
required for homesteaders to remain
on the land during each year has been
changed from seven to five months
where climatic conditions render it
advisable. The local land office rep
resentatives say that this will apply to
Alaska and especially to this portion
of the North.
Commissioner Tallman’s instruc
tions to the various receivers follows:
Under the homestead law, as it has
heretofore stood, a homesteader is
entitled to a leave of absence in one
or two continuous periods not exceed
ing in the aggregate five months in
• each year after establishing residence,
being required to file notice at the be
ginning of each period. It is provided
that in case of communtation 14
months’ actual residence must be
shown, no credit eing allowed for
the periods of theat! allowable ab-,
By the act of February 25, 1919
(Public No. 257), the following clause
is inserted in the law:
“Provided, That the register and re
ceived of the local land office under
rules and regulations made by the
commissioner of the general land of
fice 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 not
more than five months each year over
a period of five years, but the total
. residence required shall in no event
exceed twenty-five months, not Jess
than five of which shall be in each
year; proof to be made within five
years after entry.”
2. An entryman desiring to -avail
himself of the privilege accorded by
this act must, within one year after
the allowance of his entry, file in the
local land office an application (pre
ferably on the approved forrfi) con
sisting of his affidavit, corroborated
by two witnesses, setting forth the
climatic conditions which would ren
der it a hardship to reside upon the
land for as much as seven months in
each year, and stating whether he
wishes the requirement in his case to
be fixed at six months’ residence in
four successive years or at five
months’ residence in five succesive
years. The affidavit of claimant, and
the witnesses may be executed before
any officer authorized to administer
oaths and using an official seal. If
the showing is satisfactory, you will1
promptly forward the application to
this office with notation of your al
lowance thereof, by special letter. If
it is not satisfactory, you will reject
the application, subject to the usual
right of appeal, and all appeals will be
promptly forwarded by special letters.
If the application requests a reduc
tion to five months’ residence in each
year, you may, if proper, grant partial
relief; that is, fix the residence period
at six months in each year, your de
cision being subject to review by this
office on appeal from your decision, of
which the party will be notified with
all promptness.
3. Where a homesteader has se
cured a reduction of the residence re
quirements to six months in each
year, he may, at or before the termina
tion of the second year of his entry,
file application for further reduction;
that is, to five months in each of five
years.
4. To entitle a homesteader to the
benefits of this act, he must show that
the climatic conditions, in the vicinity
of the land entered are ordinarily—
not in exceptional years—such as
would render It a hardship for him '
to reside there for a greater part of
each year than for five or six months,
as the case may be.
5. Under this provisions of the law
there is no authority to allow two ab
sence periods, but the five months’
residence or the six months’ residence
as the case may be, must be in one
continuous period.
6. Proof on an entry must be made(
within five years after its allowance,
notwithstanding the fact that relief
may have been granted under this
act; but the homesteader need not
wait until the termination of his fifth
residence year before submitting
proof, provided he has had the last re
quired period of residence.
7. An entry which is otherwise sub
ject to commutation may be com
muated, notwithstanding the granting
>f relief to the homesteader under this
jrovision of law; but the periods of
ictual residence on the claim must
iggregate at least 14 months and cui
ivatlon of not less than one-sixteenth
>f the area must be shown, unless a
•eduction has been granted in the re
tirements in that regard.
8. Credit on account of a period of
nilitary service will be allowed as on
ither entries, but at least one year’s
:ompliance with, the homestead laws
nust be shown in every case.
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