Title 43 — Public LandsRelease 119-73
§472 Installments on entries or applications made after August 13, 1914, and prior to December 5, 1924
Title 43 › Chapter CHAPTER 12— - RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IX— - CONSTRUCTION CHARGES › § 472
Summary
People whose land became covered by the 1902 Reclamation Act, or who entered land under that law, after August 13, 1914 and before December 5, 1924 must pay the rest of the construction charge in 15 yearly payments. The first five payments are 5% each; the last ten are 7% each.
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Title 43, §472
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Any person whose lands, after August 13, 1914, and prior to December 5, 1924, became subject to the terms and conditions of the Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands,” and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, hereafter to be referred to as the reclamation law, and any person who, after August 13, 1914, and prior to December 5, 1924, made entry thereunder shall pay the balance of said charge after the initial payment in fifteen annual installments, the first five of which shall each be five per centum of the construction charge and the remainder shall each be seven per centum until the whole amount shall have been paid.
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Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, referred to in text, is act June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, popularly known as the Reclamation Act, which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see
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note set out under section 371 of this title and Tables. Codification References to
December 5, 1924, were inserted in conformity with provisions of act Dec. 5, 1924, ch. 4, § 4, subsec. F, 43 Stat. 702, which changed the method of paying the annual installments after such date. Such provisions, which were classified to section 473 and 474 of this title, were repealed by act
May 25, 1926, ch. 383, § 47, 44 Stat. 650. See sections 423 to 423g of this title. Section comprises part of section 1 of act Aug. 13, 1914. Remainder of section 1 is set out as section 471 of this title.
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43 U.S.C. § 472
Title 43 — Public Lands
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Apr 6, 2026
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