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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government

§ 437. Lands as to which entries made prior to June 25, 1910, have been relinquished

Statutory text

Where entries made prior to , have been or may be relinquished, in whole or in part, the lands so relinquished shall be subject to settlement and entry under the reclamation 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. 61–407 § 5 · 39 Stat. 835

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 437

    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

References in Text

The reclamation law, referred to in text, probably means act June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, popularly known as the Reclamation Act, 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.

Codification

Section comprises part of section 5 of act , as amended by acts and . Remainder of section 5 is set out as section 436 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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