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Rh prove by two eredibe witne!sa that at least o,,o-eighth of the area embraced in his entry was continuous)7 cultivated to agricultural crops other than native grasses beginning with the second year of the entry, and that at east one-fourth of the ares embraced in the entry was a continuously cultinted beginnrnz with the third yea: of the entry.

Section 6. 7hat nothing herein contained thall be held to affect the nght of a quaIiflQd eritr3flTIRTI to make homestead entry in the states named in .ction 1 of this act under the provisions of .ction 22R9 of the revised statutes, but no person who baa made entry under thi a& shall be entitled to m,ke homestead entry utider the provzsions of said section, and no entry tade under this act shall be commuted.

Sectio S. That whenever the Secretary of the Interior shall find that any tracts of and in the State of Utah. tibjctt tn entry under this act, do not have upon them such a sufficient oppiy of water suitable for domestic purposn a would make colitimlolis residence upon the Lands possible. he may, ii hi, discretion, desigDate such tracts of land, not to exceed In the aggregate two million acres, and thereafter they shall be subject to entry under this act without the necessity of rsidence; pnvider, that in such eveTit the entr,man on any such mary shall in good faith coltivat not less th,n o,w.iwhth of the entire area of the entry during the second year, one-fourth during the third year, and one-half during the fourth and Mth years after the date of soch atry, and that after entry and until final proof the entryman shaji reside within such distance of aid land a will enable mm suvcss1ully to farm the sante as required by this section. Approved FebFuary 19, 1909. —1g. I. I I[sI[!,d ,..l.— [rrig.bL.. h— lh! S ,I_!d.•[• tlI tflNf FPom.M+m(i A_L Co gTe — — - --- ___.j