Newspaper clippings - Land settlement - Transcript.

Abstract

"The new amendment of the land laws, providing for a leave of absence to a settler who is unable, by reason of drouth, whole or partial destruction of crops, sickness or unavoidable casualty, to support himself on his claim, is a beneficent and sensible provision, says an exchange. The leave of absence shall not exceed one year at any one time and the absences shall not be deducted from the period he is required by law to live on his land; the register and receiver to grant this leave under regulations as the secretary of the interior may prescribe."