Chapter 48. For the protection of desert-land entrymen who enter the military or naval service of the United States in time of war
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CHAP. 48.— An Act For the protection of desert-land entrymen who enter the military or naval service of the United States in time of war. August 7, 1917.[[H. R. 3331](/us/bill/65/hr/3331).][[Public, No. 36](/us/pl/65/36).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public lands.Desert-land entries.Vol. 19, p. 377; Vol. 26, P. 1096.Time extended for expenditures, while serving in present war. That no desert-land entry made or held under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, as amended by the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, by an officer or enlisted man in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Organized Militia of the United States shall be subject to contest or cancellation for failure to make or expend the sum of $1 per acre per year in improvements upon such claim, or to effect the reclamation thereof, during the period said entryman or his successor in interest is engaged in the military service of the United States during the present war with Germany, and until six months thereafter, and the time within which such entry-man or claimant is required to make such expenditures and effect reclamation of the land shall be, exclusive of the time of his actual service in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Organized Militia of the *Provisos*.For prior entries.United States; *Provided*, That said desert-land entry shall have been made by the said officer or enlisted man prior to his enlistment:
Notice of muster to be filed.*Provided further*, That each such entryman or claimant shall, within six months after the passage of this Act, or within six months after he is mustered into the service, file in the local land office of the district wherein his claim is situate a notice of his muster into the service of the United States and of his desire to hold said desert claim under Service specified.this Act: *Provided further*, That the term “enlisted man,” as used in this section shall include any person selected to serve in the military *Ante*, p. 76.forces of the United States as provided by the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” approved May “eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.
Approved, August 7, 1917.