§547 — Title 43 Public Lands | U.S. Code

Summary

If a person entered desert land that later fell inside a Reclamation Act project (June 17, 1902) and bought a water-right certificate from that project, they can apply for full ownership once they meet the laws for those lands and show they have reclaimed and farmed the land as homestead entrymen must. If the proof is accepted, they get a land patent (official title) and a final water-right certificate under the same rules that apply to homestead entrymen under the Act approved August 9, 1912 (43 U.S.C. 541 et seq.).

Title 43, §547

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Any desert-land entryman whose desert-land entry has been embraced within the exterior limits of any land withdrawal or irrigation project under the Act of June 17, 1902, known as the reclamation Act, and who may have obtained a water supply for the land embraced in any such desert-land entry from the reclamation project by the purchase of a water-right certificate, may at any time after having complied with the provisions of the law applicable to such lands and upon proof of the cultivation and reclamation of the land to the extent required by the reclamation Act for homestead entrymen, submit proof of such compliance, which proof, if found regular and satisfactory, shall entitle the entryman to a patent and a final water-right certificate under the same terms and conditions as required of homestead entrymen under the Act entitled “An Act providing for patents on reclamation entries, and for other purposes, approved August ninth, nineteen hundred and twelve [43 U.S.C. 541 et seq.].” 11 So in original. The closing quotation marks probably should follow “purposes”.

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Act of

June 17, 1902, known as the reclamation Act, referred to in text, is act

June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 371 of this title and Tables. The Act entitled “An Act providing for patents on reclamation entries, and for other purposes”, referred to in text, is act Aug. 9, 1912, ch. 278, 37 Stat. 265, which is classified generally to this subchapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. Codification This section was not enacted as part of act Aug. 9, 1912, ch. 278, 37 Stat. 265, which comprises this subchapter.

§547 Patent to Desert-land Entryman