By "An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain," approved May 20, 1862, c. 75, 12 Stat. 392, Congress prescribed the conditions under which citizens could acquire unappropriated public lands in tracts of not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres. A manifest purpose was to induce settlement upon and cultivation of these lands by those who,...
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