§ 446. — Right to make entry on relinquishment of former entry under land laws.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC446]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
SUBCHAPTER VI--WATER RIGHT APPLICATIONS AND LAND ENTRIES
Sec. 446. Right to make entry on relinquishment of former entry
under land laws
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.
(June 27, 1906, ch. 3559, Sec. 2, 34 Stat. 519.)
References in Text
The reclamation Act, referred to in text, is act June 17, 1902, ch.
1093, 32 Stat. 388, as amended, 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.
