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Show '', ' I .. ~ t~ . . \ . ... '. ~ · I ' 34 WASHINGTON TERRITORY, ITS MATERIAL ?ver t~e~ty thousand farms lie within our borders, upon whiCh fam1hes can locate, and by efficient effort make the " wilderness blos~om ~s the rose." The citizens of the Territory, are generally a? mtelhgent people, and all that is lacking to make comfort. dwell m the shaqow of each household, is an increase of populatwn, and especially the introduction of female soeiety in greater abundance. f RESOURCES AND CLAIMS TO EMIGRATION. 35 ADDENDA. AN AcT TO SECURE HoMESTEADS TO AcTUAL SETTLERS oN TH:I!: PuBLIC DoMAIN. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such, as required by the naturalization laws of the United States, and who has never borne arms against the United States Government, or given aid and comfort to its enemies, shall from and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred ond sixty-three, be entitled to enter ,one quarter section or a less quantity of unappropriated public lands, upon which such person may have filed a pre-emption claim, or which may, at the time the application is made, be subject to pre-emption at one dollar and twenty-five cents or less, per acre; or eighty acres or less of such unappropriated lands at two dollars and fifty cents per acre, to be located in a body, in conformity to the legal subdivisions of the public lands, and after the same shall ·have been surveyed; provided, that any person owning and residing on land may, under the provision of this act, enter other land contiguous to his or her said land, which shall not, with the land so already owned and occupied, exceed in the ~ggregate, one hundred and sixty acres. SEc. 2. And be it f urther enacted, That the person applying for the benefit of this act shall, upon application to the Register of the land office in which he or she is about to make such entry, make affidavit before the said Register or Receiver, that he or she is the head of a family, or is twenty-one or more years of age, or shall have performed service in the army or navy of the United States; and that he has never borne arms against the Government of the United States, or given aid or comfort to its enemies, and |