Volume 72
Public Law 85–641
To permit desert land entries on disconnected tracts of lands which, In the case of any one entryman, form a compact unit and do not exceed in the aggregate three hundred and twenty acres.
Approved August 14, 1958
Statutory text
AN ACT
To permit desert land entries on disconnected tracts of lands which, In the case of any one entryman, form a compact unit and do not exceed in the aggregate three hundred and twenty acres.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the first section of the Act of March 3, 1877, entitled “An Act to provide for the sale of desert lands in certain States and Territories”, as amended (43 U. S. C. 321),
is further amended by the deletion at the end of that section of the following words “: Provided, That no person shall be permitted to enter more than one tract of land and not to exceed three hundred and twenty acres which shall be in compact form” and the addition of the following: “Except as provided in section 3 of the Act of
June 16, 1955 (69 Stat. 138), as amended, no person may make more than one entry under this Act. However, in that entry one or more tracts may be included, and the tracts so entered need not be contiguous. The aggregate acreage of desert land which may be entered by any one person under this section shall not exceed three hundred and twenty acres, and all the tracts entered by one person shall be sufficiently close to each other to be managed satisfactorily as an economic unit, as determined under rules and regulations issued by the Secretary of the Interior.”
Sec. 2.
Section 3 of the Act of June 16, 1955 (69 Stat. 138), is
amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 3.
Any person who, prior to June 16, 1955, made a valid desert-land entry on lands subject to such Act of June 22, 1910, or of
July 17, 1914, may, if otherwise qualified, make one additional entry, as a personal privilege, not assignable, upon one or more tracts of desert land subject to the provisions of such Acts, as hereby amended, and section 7 of the Act entitled ‘An Act to stop injury to the public grazing lands by preventing overgrazing and soil deterioration, to provide for their orderly use, improvement, and development to stabilize the livestock industry dependent upon the public range, and for other purposes’, approved June, 28, 1934, as amended (48 Stat. 1269, 1272; 43 U. S. C. 315f). The additional land entered by any person pursuant to this section shall not, together with his original entry, exceed three hundred and twenty acres, and all the tracts included within the additional entry authorized by this section shall be sufficiently close to each other to be managed satisfactorily as an economic unit, as determined under rules and regulations issued by the Secretary of the Interior. Additional entries authorized by this section shall be subject to all the requirements of the desert-land law.”
Approved August 14, 1958.