§ 547. — Patent to desertland entryman.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC547]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
SUBCHAPTER XIV--PATENTS AND FINAL WATER-RIGHT CERTIFICATES
Sec. 547. Patent to desert-land entryman
Any desert-land entryman whose desert-land entry has been embraced
within the exterior limits of any land withdrawal or irrigation project
under the Act of June 17, 1902, known as the reclamation Act, and who
may have obtained a water supply for the land embraced in any such
desert-land entry from the reclamation project by the purchase of a
water-right certificate, may at any time after having complied with the
provisions of the law applicable to such lands and upon proof of the
cultivation and reclamation of the land to the extent required by the
reclamation Act for homestead entrymen, submit proof of such compliance,
which proof, if found regular and satisfactory, shall entitle the
entryman to a patent and a final water-right certificate under the same
terms and conditions as required of homestead entrymen under this
subchapter.
(Aug. 26, 1912, ch. 408, Sec. 1, 37 Stat. 610.)
References in Text
Act of June 17, 1902, known as 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.
Codification
This section was not enacted as part of act Aug. 9, 1912, ch. 278,
37 Stat. 265, which comprises this subchapter.
