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 SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Ssss. III. Ons. 20-22. 1919. 1153 chiefly valuable for the production of timber or the rotection of stream flow, may, with the approval of the Secretary ofp the Interior, be included within and made a part of the Wyo National Forest by proclamation of the President, said lands toudbleughereafter subject to all laws affecting national forests: All of township twenty-nine 1>¤¤¤ir>¤¤¤- north, range one hundred and eighteen west; all of township twenty- nine north, range one hundred and nineteen west; sections five, six, seven, eight, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, t ty, thirty-one, thirty-two, and thirty- three township thirty north, range one hundred and eighteen west; all of, township thirty north, range one hundred and nineteen westsections seven, eighteen, nineteen, thirty, thirtijy-one, and west bali of section thirty-two, township thirty-one nert, range one hrmdred and eighteen west; sections nineteen to thirty-six, inclusive, township thirty-one north, range one hundred and nineteen west; all of the sixth principal meridian, Wyoming. ` Approved, February 25, 1919. ~ r rm. CHAP. 21.-—An Act To provide for a leave of absence for lmmatesd entrymen in one or two periods, and for longer times. · » [paws, N°_ 35-;_] Be it enacted by the Senate and House o Re eemtativea the United States of America. in Congress assembleii Tlgt the Act  “An 1 Act to provide for leave of absence for homestead entrymen in one uXga·d¤¤» P- me or two periods," approved August twenatiy-second, nineteen hundred ' and fourteen, be, and hereby is, amend to read as follows: Bmw 0, km 0, " That the entryman mentioned in section twenty-two hundred and shsngidlovd. ninety-one of Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by 4,%.,,,;,,% 2°‘· " the Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve, Thirty-sevent v.,;,;·,,,_m Statutes, one hundred and twenty-three, upon  in the ocal land office notice of the beginning of such absence at his option shall be entitled to aéeave of absepice in ontrilpr two gontinupus periidlgh not exceeding` in e te ve mon in eac year s ter esta in residence: 1> tt are register me receiver er the mr rmi I €'.s°"3&g¤. mw oflice under rules and regulations made by the Commissioner of the °'°u”“°‘° °°°°"*°“" General Land Office may, r;_pon proper showing, upon application of the homesteader, and only or climatic conditions, which makes resi— dence on the homestead for seven months in each year a hardship; reduce the term of residence to not more than six months in eac year, over a period of four years, or to not more than five months each Tm, wd M year over a period of five years, but the total residence required shall M ` m no event exceed twenty-five months, not less than five of which shall be in each year; proof to be made within five years after entry; and u n the termination of such absence, in each period, the entry- man sblill file a notice of such termination m the local land office; but ,,,,°j,’§,'},‘f"““°“ "°‘ in case of commutation the fourteen months’ actual residence, as now required by law, must be shown, and the person commuting be at the time a citizen of the United States." Approved, February 25, 1919. cnn. 22.-an Act Te authorize the purchase by are city or Mcmmvrue, F°"’{’;",,§,‘°‘°· certain lands formerly embraced in the grant to the Oregon and California -—-———— Com and revested rn the United States by theAct approved June ninth, lP“b“°· N°· 25*] nineteen hunmyand sixteen. Be·ite1uu:1edby theSenateandHmrseo Re eaentativeao theUnited . ·sam (yam-sm in congress mumbai, Tgt as swmisq er are s?iS.%‘,‘;?.f’;’.%‘a°§?“ Interior shall be, and is hereby, authomd to issue a tent to the or¤:•°*y:v$é*{¤;{¤h'*.§;; city of McMinnville, Oregon, for the following describedxlands, being 4. " ll2460°»—voi. 40—Pr 1-73