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	Homestead Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A homesteader had only to be the head of a household and at least 21 years of age to claim a 160 acre parcel of land.
		When all requirements had been completed and the homesteader was ready the take legal possession, the homesteader found two neighbors or friends willing to vouch for the truth of his or her statements about the land's improvements and sign the "proof" document.
		The Homestead Act remained in effect until it was repealed in 1976, with provisions for homesteading in Alaska until 1986.
	www.nps.gov /home/homestead_act.html (495 words)

	FLORIDA HOMESTEAD SERVICES, LLC - Homestead Act - FLORIDA HOMESTEAD ACT EXEMPTION DECLARATION DESIGNATION
		An act passed by Congress in 1862 promising ownership of a 160-acre tract of public land to a citizen or head of a family who had resided on and cultivated the land for five years after the initial claim.
		Homesteaders could buy their land after living on it for six months for $1.25 per acre, or they could expand the amount of land by paying $50 for 16 ha/40 acres, a huge amount of money at that time.
		The act was later copied with some modifications by Canada in the form of the Dominion Lands Act, and similar acts, usually termed the Selection Acts were passed in the various Australian colonies in the 1860s, beginning in 1861 in New South Wales.
	www.netside.net /~c3i/act.htm (3375 words)

	The 1862 Homestead Act
		The Homestead Act, one of the most important pieces of American legislation, was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1862 during the height of the Civil War.
		Before the Homestead Act, the federal government had been busy acquiring land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, all part of the attitude called Manifest Destiny (as in, it's manifest that the destiny of the United States is to stretch from ocean to ocean).
		Before the Homestead Act, the government's main role regarding land was to acquire as much as possible, but after the Homestead Act, the federal government began dispensing this land to the general public.
	www.delsjourney.com /close-ups/us/travels_mw/homestead_act.htm (698 words)

	Homestead Act: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)
		In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land.
		The Homestead Act led to the distribution of 80 million acres of public land by 1900.
		The House of Representatives passed the Homestead Act by a vote of 107 to 16 on February 28, 1862.
	www.loc.gov /rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Homestead.html (410 words)

	Homestead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Homestead Act of 1862 was one of the most significant and enduring events in the westward expansion of the United States.
		When President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law on May 20, 1862, he created a method of westward expansion that would exist for the next 123 years and eventually be responsible for the settlement of over 270 million acres of the American landscape.
		The Homestead Act was a chief factor in the shifting of settlement demographics in the United States.
	www.walvoordhistory.com /Homestead.html (2220 words)

	Registry of Deeds: The Homestead Act Questions & Answers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		An Estate of Homestead is a type of protection for a person’s residence, in the form of a document called a “Declaration of Estate of Homestead”.
		To acquire a claim of Homestead for a mobile home, you must file at the city or town clerk’s office in the city or town in which the mobile home is located.
		If a non-elderly homestead exemption already exists and one of the spouses reaches the age of 62, it would seem to be beneficial to have that person file an over 62 (elderly) homestead.
	www.sec.state.ma.us /rod/rodhom/homidx.htm (1964 words)

	The Homestead Act of 1862
		After 5 years, the homesteader could file for his patent (or deed of title) by submitting proof of residency and the required improvements to a local land office.
		Homesteaders who persevered were rewarded with opportunities as rapid changes in transportation eased some of the hardships.
		Six months after the Homestead Act was passed, the Railroad Act was signed, and by May 1869, a transcontinental railroad stretched across the frontier.
	www.archives.gov /education/lessons/homestead-act (1417 words)

	Salem Deeds - Homestead FAQ's and Forms
		All Homesteads must be filed in the county in which the residence is located.
		Should the spouse or parent who declares the Homestead die, the law protects the house until the youngest unmarried child reaches the age of eighteen (18) and until the surviving spouse dies or remarries.
		Note: Homesteads for the Elderly or disabled filed prior to November 2, 2000, will automatically be eligible for the increased protection of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000), provided however, the increase shall not have priority over and shall be subordinate to, any lien, right or interest recorded or filed before November 2, 2000.
	www.salemdeeds.com /homestead.asp (1110 words)

	Amistad, New Mexico, and the Homestead Act of 1862
		They would apply for a homestead in an arid area, mortgage it with an insurance company which loaned him a little more each year, and as soon as the land "proved up" and received a "final certificate", it would be turned over to the insurance company and the speculator would move on.
		The Pre-emption Act, repealed in 1891, legalized early pioneer settlement on unsurveyed lands, and recognized squatting as a legitimate means of establishing a homestead.
		The Desert Land Act of 1877 was designed to foster settlement of the arid and semi-arid regions of the west, specifically in Arizona, California, the Dakotas, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
	www.huntel.com /~artpike/amista1b.htm (1279 words)

	Adeline Hornbek and the Homestead Act
		In the center of this lush valley stands the Hornbek homestead complex, the home of a strong, determined woman who came to the area with her four children in the 1870s.
		Claiming land under the Homestead Act, Adeline Hornbek defied traditional gender roles to become the owner of a prosperous ranch.
		This lesson is based on the Hornbek Homestead, which is within the boundaries of Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, one of the thousands of properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/67hornbek/67hornbek.htm (157 words)

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		Second, the Act gives counties the responsibility to prepare annual reports on the eligible properties, to be given to the schools for the purpose of making an annual determination of their homestead exclusion.
		However, the Act permits this mailing to be limited to properties that are not currently approved and, because the Act limits the frequency with which the county may require an enrolled property owner to reapply, this option should be exercised.
		First, while Act 72 mirrors or refers to Act 50 in many respects, it is not as clear on the limitations on the farmstead exclusion (the homestead exclusion is clearly limited by the Constitution to 50% of the median value of all homestead properties in the taxing jurisdiction).
	www.pacounties.org /commissioners/lib/commissioners/Act_72_Analysis.doc (2633 words)

	The United States Homestead Act
		People interested in Homesteading first had to file their intentions at the nearest Land Office and after a check for any ownership claims, the prospector paid a filing fee of $10 to claim the land temporarily, as well as a $2 commission to the land agent.
		When all requirements had been completed and the homesteader was ready the take legal possession, the homesteader found two neighbors or friends willing to vouch for the truth of his or her statements regarding land improvement and sign the "proof" document.
		Homestead farmers, who claimed some 270 million acres over the years, became the agricultural producers to the nation as a whole.
	www.legendsofamerica.com /AH-Homestead.html (985 words)

	Essex North Registry of Deeds - Homestead Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		To acquire a claim of homestead for a mobile home, you must file at the city or town clerk's office in which the mobile home is located.
		For example, a husband cannot declare a Homestead exemption on one residence while the wife declares the exemption on the other residence, unless each can prove that the residence is their "principal residence".
		If a Homestead Declaration is in place, and the state exemptions are claimed, a homeowner would be allowed to retain a much greater portion of the proceeds from a liquidations sale of the home than s/he would be allowed to keep under federal bankruptcy law exemptions.
	www.lawrencedeeds.com /homestead.asp (1961 words)

	Adeline Hornbek and the Homestead Act -- Reading 1
		In 1863, the year their third child was born, Simon Harker filed a claim under the Homestead Act on 160 acres of land on which the family was living.
		Hornbek left her Denver homestead after her husband's disappearance, but there is no record of why and no certain knowledge of where she spent the next three years.
		Although the Homestead Act was not originally intended to help women become a stronger economic force in this country, it did provide some women with land and farms of their own.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/67hornbek/67facts1.htm (1052 words)

	Alaska Office of Economic Development
		After filing their intentions, homesteaders were required to live on the land, build a residence, and farm at least 10% of it within five years before a legal patent for the land was issued.
		Homesteaders ranged from dairy and agricultural farmers to miners and wilderness pioneers living a subsistence lifestyle.
		The Homestead Act was finally repealed in 1976, though Alaska was granted an extension until 1986.
	www.dced.state.ak.us /oed/student_info/learn/homesteading.htm (383 words)

	Dakota Genealogy Research - North Dakota Genealogy - South Dakota Genealogy - Time Passages, Genealogy of the Dakotas
		And be it further enacted, That the register of the land office shall note all such applications on the tract books and plats of his office, and keep a register of all such entries, and make return thereof to the General Land Office, together with the proof upon which they have been founded.
		And be it further enacted, That no lands acquired under the provisions of this act shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.
		The Homestead Act was amended many times over the years.
	www.time-passages.com /homestead-act.html (177 words)

	PBS - Frontier House: Frontier Life
		The Homestead Act, passed by Congress on May 20, 1862, declared that any citizen of the United States could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land.
		After payment of a nominal filing fee, homesteaders were to "improve" their land by living on it, building a dwelling, and planting crops.
		Via the Homestead Act, vast amounts of the public domain -- 270 million acres, or 10% of the continental United States -- were opened up to private citizens.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/frontierhouse/frontierlife/essay1.html (428 words)

	Homestead Act of 1862
		The grassy interior between the Missouri and the Rocky Mountains was designated Indian Territory in the 1830s and was bypassed by emigrants on the Oregon Trail.
		The Homestead Act declared that any citizen or intended citizen could claim 160 acres - one quarter square mile - of surveyed government land.
		The Homestead Act's lenient terms proved the undoing of many settlers.
	www.beatricene.com /homestead/history.html (715 words)

	Homestead Law in Massachusetts: A Pathfinder from the Mass. Trial Court Law Libraries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Homestead Law in Massachusetts: A Pathfinder from the Mass.
		In Re Hildebrandt, 313 B.R. Debtor's failure to reserve homestead exemption in conveyance of property from debtor and a tenant in common to the debtor terminated the Homestead.
		Daughter who co-owned residential property was member of same "family" as mother and therefore protected by mother's declaration of homestead without either the obligation or ability to file a declaration of homestead on her own behalf.
	www.lawlib.state.ma.us /homestead.html (509 words)

	Today in History: May 20
		The act provided settlers with 160 acres of surveyed public land after payment of a filing fee and five years of continuous residence.
		The Homestead Act commemorative stamp, based on the John McCarthy photograph at left, was released at Beatrice, Nebraska on May 20, 1962.
		Lane had arrived at his homestead with 30 head of cattle and several horses.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/may20.html (743 words)

	Homestead Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		SETTLEMENT OF THE NEW FRONTIER: THE HOMESTEAD ACT OF 1862
		The Homestead Act of 1862 was largely irrelevant in the Midwest, where most of the land had been bought and paid for before the act was passed.
		Therefore, the geographic stability of property boundaries and farm size suggests that the size of contemporary farms in the Midwest may be a function of the acreage that the first settlers originally obtained from the federal government more than a century ago.
	www.geo.msu.edu /geo333/homestead_act.html (744 words)

	Monumental Changes - STATEWIDE Interactive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Homestead National Monument near Beatrice tells the story of the Homestead Act of 1862.
		The act offered free land as an incentive to lure settlers to the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountain regions of America.
		A wonderful thing about studying the Homestead Act and the people who participated in the Homestead Act is learing about their creativity, their imagination.
	net.unl.edu /~swi/pers/homestead.html (1683 words)

	The Texas Homestead Act
		The urban residential homestead consists of a lot or lots of 10 acres or less that is located within a city or town.
		Rather, what is defined as homestead is based solely on the size or acreage of the land involved.
		More seriously though, the wives and children of a deceased breadwinner were secure in their home(stead) and could not be removed because of some improper or manufactured claim of debt.
	www.dallasrelo.com /homestead.html (431 words)

	the Act
		Under the Homestead Act in Massachusetts an owner of property can declare that they are entitled to protection of their property as long as they qualify under the act.
		The Homestead act will protect the declarant against loses up to the amount of $300,000.00 Where a person has a family, that person must declare a homestead in their own name as well as in the family's name.
		This is because a Declaration of Homestead is personal to the declarant and his family, as it pertains to that particular piece of property.
	www.jctitleservices.com /homesteadact.htm (600 words)

	Rural Action Brief -- The New Homestead Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		While this allowable use of Individual Homestead Accounts will benefit a segment of the rural population, it may not be the best use of resources to address the housing challenges facing most low- and moderate-income rural people and the housing issues facing many of our rural communities.
		Individual Homestead Accounts are not specifically limited to the development of small businesses – an Individual Homestead Account may be used for the capitalization of “any trade or business located in a qualifying county.” However, because of account size, Individual Homestead Accounts will likely be used to develop and create small businesses and self-employment opportunities.
		The New Homestead Act is a worthy addition to the rural development debate, and Individual Homestead Accounts have the potential to contribute significantly to rural economic and community development.
	www.cfra.org /briefs/rab_new_homestead_act.htm (2388 words)

	Montgomery County Homestead Exclusion
		If you qualify for the Act 72 homestead/farmstead exclusion, by completing this form you are also enrolled in the Act 50 homestead/farmstead exclusion program.
		Act 50 was past by the state legislature in 1998 to provide for a homestead exclusion for any of the taxing authorities, county, municipality, or school district.
		The specifications to qualify for Act 50 are the same as Act 72.
	www.montcopa.org /boa/ACT72/homeownertaxrelief.htm (512 words)

	Homestead National Monument of America - Homestead National Monument of America (U.S. National Park Service)
		The Homestead Act of 1862 transferred more than 270 million acres of land from Federal to private ownership.
		Homestead National Monument of America is seeking assistance in locating people who filed claims under the Homestead Act.
		The Homestead Act of 1862, which gave away 160 acre claims, was repealed in the lower 48 states in 1976.
	www.nps.gov /home (319 words)

	usnews.com: The People's Vote: Homestead Act (1862)
		The Homestead Act, enacted during the Civil War in 1862, provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land.
		Although this act was included in the Republican party platform of 1860, support for the idea began decades earlier.
		Unfortunately, the act was framed so ambiguously that it seemed to invite fraud, and early modifications by Congress only compounded the problem.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/documents/docpages/document_page31.htm (369 words)

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