§ 331. — Reclamation requirements waived in favor of disabled soldiers, etc.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC331]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 9--DESERT-LAND ENTRIES
Sec. 331. Reclamation requirements waived in favor of disabled
soldiers, etc.
Any entryman under the desert-land laws, or any person entitled to
preference right of entry under section 326 of this title, who after
application or entry for surveyed lands or legal initiation of claim for
unsurveyed lands, and prior to November 11, 1918, enlisted or was
actually engaged in the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps during
the war with Germany, who has been honorably discharged and because of
physical incapacities due to service is unable to accomplish reclamation
of and payment for the land, may make proof without further reclamation
thereof or payments thereon under such rules and regulations as may be
prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and receive patent for the
land by him so entered or claimed, if found entitled thereto: Provided,
That no such patent shall issue prior to the survey of the land.
(Mar. 1, 1921, ch. 102, Sec. 2, as added Dec. 15, 1921, ch. 3, 42 Stat.
348.)
