That on any application for letters patent by the legal representative of the entrant. or by his assignee. or by the guardian or committee of an entrant who has become insane or mentally incapable. or by a person who In the event of such an insane entrants death would be his legal representative. the minister may receive proof of the facts In such manner as he sees fit to require. and. upon being satisfied that the claim has been proved. may allow the claim and cause letters patent to issue accordingly. (Par. 2. see. 25. p. 11.) (9) Any person who receives consideration for abandoning a homestead. or who pays consideration for such abandonment. shall forfeit the right of homestead entry at the ministers discretion. (Par. 2. sec. 31. 1). 17.) The prime cause of migration to Canada is the fact that there Is much more unoccupied agricultural land there than here. Conditions as to the public domain are more ns they were in the United States a quarter of a century or more ago. and men who go there from the United States are taking advantage of high prices they can get for their holdings here to procure cheap lands in Canada. Then. too. the Canadian Government is doing much to induce immigration. and the railroads are cooperating in the granting of very low rates of transportation. It will be noted from the brief abstract of the Canadian homestead law which I have given that the natural resources. including timber. are reserved from entry or acquisition. As a matter of fact the laws there are more stringent than in the United States. and if our own laws had been modeled after them the scandals that have disgraced our own administration of the public domain could never have occurred.
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