Chapter 112. Limiting and restricting the right of entry and assignment under the desert-land law and authorizing an extension of time within which to make final proof
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CHAP. 112.— An Act Limiting and restricting the right of entry and assignment under the desert-land law and authorizing an extension of time within which to make final proof. March 28, 1908.[[H. R. 16493](/us/bill/70/hr/16493).][[Public, No. 75.](/us/pl/70/75)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That from and after the passagePublic lands.Desert lands entries restricted to surveyed lands. of this Act the right to make entry of desert lands under the provisions of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the sale of desert landsVol. 19, p. 377. in certain States and Territories,” as amended by the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act toVol. 26, p. 1096. repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” shall be restricted to surveyed public lands of the character contemplated by said Acts, and no such entries of unsurveyed lands shall be allowed or made of record: *Provided, however*, That any individual qualified to make entry*Proviso*.Preference right to prior entries. of desert lands under said Acts who has, prior to survey, taken possession of a tract of unsurveyed desert land not exceeding in area three hundred and twenty acres in compact form, and has reclaimed or has in good faith commenced the work of reclaiming the same, shall have the preference right to make entry of such tract under said Acts, in conformity with the public land surveys, within ninety days after the filing of the approved plat of survey in the district land office.
Sec. 2. That from and after the date of the passage of this Act noAssignments restricted. assignment of an entry made under said Acts shall be allowed or recognized, except it be to an individual who is shown to be qualified to make entry under said Acts of the land covered by the assigned entry, and such assignments may include all or part of an entry; but no assignment to or for the benefit of any corporation or association shall be authorized or recognized. Sec. 3. That any entrymen under the above Acts who shall showExtension of time to complete work. to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office that he has in good faith complied with the terms, requirements, and provisions of said Acts, but that because of some unavoidable delay in the construction of the irrigating works, intended to convey water 53 to the said lands, he is, without fault on his part, unable to make proof of the reclamation and cultivation of said land, as required by said Acts, shall, upon filing his corroborated affidavit with the land office in which said land is located, setting forth said facts, be allowed an additional period of not to exceed three years, within the discretion of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, within which to furnish proof as required by said Acts of the completion of said work.
Approved, March 28, 1908.