Chapter 257. To amend section fourteen of the reclamation extension Act approved August thirteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen
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CHAP. 257.— An Act To amend section fourteen of the reclamation extension Act approved August thirteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen. July 26, 1916[[H. R. 605](/us/bill/64/hr/605)][[Public, No. 167](/us/pl/64/167)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Reclamation Act.Vol. 38, p. 690, amended. That section fourteen of an Act entitled “An Act extending the period of payment under reclamation projects, and for other purposes,” approved August thirteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, be amended so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 14. Acceptance of extension of times of payment by present owners. That any person whose land or entry has heretofore become subject to the reclamation law, who desires to secure the benefits of the extension of the period of payments provided by this Act, shall, within six months after the issuance of the first public notice hereunder affecting his land or entry, notify the Secretary of the Interior, in the manner to be prescribed by said Secretary, of his acceptance of all the terms and conditions of this Act, and there-391after his lands or entry shall be subject to all of the provisions of this Act:
Provided, That upon sufficient showing the Secretary of the*Proviso*.Time of filing notice. Interior may, in his discretion, permit notice of acceptance of all the terms and conditions of this Act to be filed at any time after the time Emit hereinbefore fixed for filing such acceptance shall have expired, conditioned, however, that where the applicant for such acceptance is in arrears on construction charges, he shall at the time of acceptancePayment of installments. pay such installments of the construction charge as he would have been required to pay had he accepted this Act within the time limit hereinabove fixed, plus the penalties that would have accrued had he so accepted, and such applicant shall thereafter be upon the same status that he would have been had he accepted the provisions of this Act within the time limit hereinabove fixed, and thereafter the lands or entry of any such persons so fifing such notice of acceptance shall be subject to all the provisions of this Act.
” " Approved, July 26, 1916.