§ 337. — Entry, after expenditures, perfected as homestead entry.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC337]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 9--DESERT-LAND ENTRIES
Sec. 337. Entry, after expenditures, perfected as homestead
entry
Where it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the
Secretary of the Interior, under rules and regulations to be prescribed
by him, with reference to any lawful pending desert-land entry made
prior to March 4, 1915, under which the entryman or his duly qualified
assignee under an assignment made prior to March 4, 1915, has, in good
faith, expended the sum of $3 per acre in the attempt to effect
reclamation of the land, that there is no reasonable prospect that, if
the extension allowed by section 335 of this title or any law existing
prior to March 4, 1915, were granted, he would be able to secure water
sufficient to effect reclamation of the irrigable land in his entry or
any legal subdivision thereof, the Secretary of the Interior may, in his
discretion, allow such entryman or assignee five years from notice
within which to perfect the entry in the manner required of a homestead
entryman: Provided, That in cases where such entries have been assigned
prior to March 4, 1915, the assignees shall, if otherwise qualified, be
entitled to the benefit hereof.
(Mar. 4, 1915, ch. 147, Sec. 5, 38 Stat. 1161; Mar. 21, 1918, ch. 26, 40
Stat. 458.)
Codification
Section is comprised of third paragraph of section 5 of act Mar. 4,
1915. First paragraph of such section 5, which was classified to section
26 of Title 41, Public Contracts, was repealed by act June 30, 1949, ch.
288, title VI, Sec. 602(a)(20), 63 Stat. 401, eff. July 1, 1949,
renumbered Sept. 5, 1950, ch. 849, Sec. 6(a), (b), 64 Stat. 583; second
and fourth pars. of such section 5 are classified to sections 335 and
338 of this title, respectively.
Act Mar. 21, 1918 extended the provisions to include entries made
prior to Mar. 4, 1915 and added the last proviso. Act Mar. 4, 1915
related to entries made prior to July 1, 1914.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 338 of this title.
