Chapter 182. For the relief of homestead entrymen under the reclamation projects of the United States
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CHAP. 182.— An Act For the relief of homestead entrymen under the reclamation projects of the United States. March 4, 1915.[[H. R. 19061](/us/bill/63/hr/19061).][[Public, No. 331](/us/pl/63/331).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That any person who has Reclamation Act.Relinquishment of homestead entries under, if land not irrigable.Vol. 32, p. 388.made homestead entry under the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two (Thirty-second Statutes at Large, page three hun1216dred and eighty-eight), for land believed to be susceptible of irrigation which at the time of said entry was withdrawn for any contemplated irrigation project, may relinquish the same, provided that it has since been determined that the land embraced in such entry or all thereof in excess of twenty acres is not or will not be irrigable under the Selection of farm unit in lieu.Vol. 36, p. 918.project, and in lieu thereof may select and make entry for any farm unit included within such irrigation project as finally established, notwithstanding the provisions of section five of the Act of June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act to authorize *Proviso*.Residence credit.advances to the reclamation fund, ” and so forth, and Acts amendatory thereof: *Provided*, That such entrymen shall be given credit on the new entry for the time of bona fide residence maintained on the original entry.
Approved, March 4, 1915.