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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government

§ 375d. Issuance of patent for small tracts; reservations

Statutory text

After the purchaser has paid to the United States all the amount on the purchase price of such land, a patent shall be issued. Such patents shall contain a reservation of a lien for water charges when deemed appropriate by the Secretary, and reservations of coal or other mineral rights to the same extent as patents issued under the homestead laws and also other reservations, limitations, or conditions as now provided by law.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 81–78 § 3 · 64 Stat. 39

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 375d

    (Mar. 31, 1950, ch. 78, § 3, 64 Stat. 40.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 31, 1950, ch. 78, § 3, 64 Stat. 40.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. After the purchaser has paid to the United States all the Patents. amount on the purchase price of such land, a patent shall be issued. Such patents shall contain a reservation of a lien for water charges when deemed appropriate by the Secretary, and reservations of coal or other mineral rights to the same extent as patents issued under the homestead laws and also other reservations, limitations, or conditions as now provided by law.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Mar. 31, 1950, ch. 78, § 3, 64 Stat. 40.)

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