Chapter 166. To amend section one of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for an enlarged homestead,” approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and nine
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CHAP. 166.— An Act To amend section one of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for an enlarged homestead,” approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and nine.June 13, 1912. [[S. 5428](/us/bill/62/s/5428).] [[Public, No. 191](/us/pl/62/191).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Enlarged homesteads.Vol. 35, p. 639, amended. That section one of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for an enlarged homestead,” approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, be, and is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
" “Section 1. Entries of 320 acres permitted.States affected.California and North Dakota added. That any person who is a qualified entryman under the homestead laws of the United States may enter, by legal subdivisions, under the provisions of this Act, in the States of Arizona, Cali133fornia, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, three hundred and twenty acres, or less, of nonmineral, nonirrigable, unreserved, and unappropriated surveyed public lands which do not contain merchantable timber, located in a reasonably compact body, and not over one and one-half miles in extreme length: *Provided*, That no lands shall be*Proviso*.Designation of non-irrigable lands. subject to entry under the provisions of this Act until such lands shall have been designated by the Secretary of the Interior as not being, in his opinion, susceptible of successful irrigation at a reasonable cost from any known source of water supply.
" Approved, June 13, 1912.