Title 43Public LandsRelease 119-73not60

§593 Flathead Irrigation Project, Montana

Title 43 › Chapter 12— RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT › Subchapter XVII— LEGISLATION APPLICABLE TO PARTICULAR PROJECTS GENERALLY › § 593

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Applies secs. 441, 442, and subch. XIV to Flathead irrigation project lands in former Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana. Otherwise they remain under April 23, 1904 (amended May 29, 1908), and U.S. liens on patents must include all sums due or to become due for Indian price.

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Title 43, §593

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The provisions of section 441 and 442 of this title, authorizing the assignment under certain conditions of homesteads within reclamation projects, and of subchapter XIV of this chapter, authorizing under certain conditions the issuance of patents on reclamation entries, and for other purposes, are hereby extended and made applicable to lands within the Flathead irrigation project, in the former Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, but such lands shall otherwise be subject to the provisions of the Act of Congress approved April 23, 1904 (Thirty-third Statutes at Large, page 302), as amended by the Act of Congress approved May 29, 1908 (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page 448): Provided, That the lien reserved to the United States on the land patented, as provided for in section 542 of this title, shall include all sums due or to become due to the United States on account of the Indian price of such land.

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Subchapter XIV (§ 541 et seq.) of this chapter, referred to in text, was in the original a reference to act Aug. 9, 1912, 37 Stat. 265. Act April 23, 1904, referred to in text, is not classified to the Code.

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43 U.S.C. § 593

Title 43Public Lands

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

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