§ 663. Restriction of sites to inclusion of necessary lands

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. 1891

   Pub. L. 51–561 § 17 · 26 Stat. 1095

   Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 663

   (Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, § 17, 26 Stat. 1101.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, § 17, 26 Stat. 1101.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 17. That reservoir sites located or selected and to be located Limit on reservoir sites. Vol. 25, p. 525. and selected under the provisions of “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for other purposes,” and amendments thereto, shall be restricted to and shall contain only so much land as is actually necessary for the construction and maintenance of reservoirs; excluding so far as practicable lands occupied by actual settlers at the date of the location of said Lands of actual settlers. reservoirs and that the provision of “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for other purposes,” which reads as follows, viz: “No person who shall after the passage of this act enter upon any of the public lands with a Maximum land entries not to include mining claims. Ante, 391. view to occupation, entry, or settlement under any of the land laws .shall be permitted to acquire title to more than three hundred and twenty acres in the aggregate under all said laws,” shall be construed to include in the maximum amount of lands the title to which is permitted to be acquired by one person only agricultural lands and not to include lands entered or sought to be entered under mineral land laws.

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