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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government

§ 436. Time when entry may be made generally

Statutory text

After , no entry shall be made and no entryman shall be permitted to go upon lands reserved for irrigation purposes until the Secretary of the Interior shall have established the unit of acreage per entry, and water is ready to be delivered for the land in such unit or some part thereof and such fact has been announced by the Secretary of the Interior.

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. 61–407 § 5 · 39 Stat. 835

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 436

    June 25, 1910, ch. 407, § 5, 36 Stat. 836

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 25, 1910, ch. 407, § 5, 36 Stat. 836

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 5. That no entry shall be hereafter made and no entryman shall be permitted to go upon lands reserved for irrigation purposes until the Secretary of the Interior shall have established the unit of acreage and fixed the water charges and the date when the water can be applied and made public announcement of the same.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section comprises part of section 5 of act , as amended by acts and . Remainder of section 5 is set out as section 437 of this title.

Credits

1910–1914 · 3 acts
  1. 1910June 25, 1910, ch. 407, § 5, 36 Stat. 836
  2. 1911Feb. 18, 1911, ch. 111, 36 Stat. 918
  3. 1914Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, § 10, 38 Stat. 689.
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(June 25, 1910, ch. 407, § 5, 36 Stat. 836; Feb. 18, 1911, ch. 111, 36 Stat. 918; Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, § 10, 38 Stat. 689.)

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