Title 43 — Public Lands
Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government
§ 446. Right to make entry on relinquishment of former entry under land laws
Statutory text
Wherever the Secretary of the Interior, in carrying out the provisions of the reclamation Act, shall acquire by relinquishment lands covered by a bona fide unperfected entry under the land laws of the United States, the entryman upon such tract may make another and additional entry, as though the entry thus relinquished had not been made.
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.
Pub. L. 59–3559 § 2 · 34 Stat. 519
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 446
(June 27, 1906, ch. 3559, § 2, 34 Stat. 519.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 27, 1906, ch. 3559, § 2, 34 Stat. 519.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. That wherever the Secretary of the Interior, in carrying Additional entries for relinquished lands. out the provisions of the reclamation Act, shall acquire by relinquishment lands covered by a bona fide unperfected entry under the land laws of the United States, the entryman upon such tract may make another and additional entry, as though the entry thus relinquished had not been made.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
The reclamation Act, referred to in text, is identified in section 434 of this title.
Credits
(June 27, 1906, ch. 3559, § 2, 34 Stat. 519.)