Document 4 Transcript of Homestead Act (1862) CHAP. LXXV. Act to secure Homesteads to actual Settlers on the Public Domain. —An 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 January, eighteen hundred and. sixty-three, be entitled to enter one quarter section or a less quantity of unappropriated public lands, upon which said person may have filed a That any person owning and residing on preemption claim, ….Provided, land may, under the provisions of this act, enter other land lying contiguous to his or her said land, which shall not, with the land so already owned and occupied, exceed in the aggregate one hundred and sixty acres. Document 5 Hamelitz 1881; May 26 (June 7)) From the Jewish Colonies in the Government of Yekaterinoslav May 13: Their houses they destroyed and whatever they found therein they smashed to pieces, The Torah scrolls and all the printed books they tore and defiled them with refuse. The fear of the Almighty
Document 4 Transcript of Homestead Act (1862) CHAP. LXXV. —An Act to secure Homesteads to actual Settlers on the 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 January, eighteen hundred and. sixty-three, be entitled to enter one quarter section or a less quantity of unappropriated public lands, upon which said person may have filed a preemption claim, ….Provided, That any person owning and residing on land may, under the provisions of this act, enter other land lying contiguous to his or her said land, which shall not, with the land so already owned and occupied, exceed in the aggregate one hundred and sixty acres. Document 5 Hamelitz 1881; May 26 (June 7)) From the Jewish Colonies in the Government of Yekaterinoslav May 13: Their houses they destroyed and whatever they found therein they smashed to pieces, The Torah scrolls and all the printed books they tore and defiled them with refuse. The fear of the Almighty