Chapter 10. To amend section 3 of an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902, and for other purposes,” approved March 3, 1901 (Thirty-first Statutes at Large, page 1133)
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CHAP. 10.— An Act To amend section 3 of an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902, and for other purposes,” approved March 3, 1901 (Thirty-first Statutes at Large, page 1133). January 6, 1921. [[S. 2188](/us/bill/66/s/2188).] [[Public, No. 291](/us/pl/66/291).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Public lands.Carey Act segregations.Vol. 31, p. 1188, amended.
That section 3 of the Act of Congress approved March 3, 1901 (Thirty-first Statutes at Large, page 1133), be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 3. That section 4 of the Act of August 18, 1894, entitledCommencement of period for reclaiming, etc., lands.Vol. 28, p. 422, amended. ‘An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, and for other purposes,’ be, and the same is hereby, amended so that the ten-year period within which any State shall cause the lands applied for under said Act to be irrigated, and reclaimed, as provided in said section, asVol. 29, p. 434. amended by the Act of June 11, 1896, shall begin to run from the date of approval by the Secretary of the Interior of the State’s applicationActual construction required. for the segregation of such lands; and if actual construction of reclamation works is not begun within three years after the segregation of the lands or within such further period, not exceeding three years, as shall be allowed by the Secretary of the Interior, the said Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, may restore such lands toDiscretionary restoration to public domain on failure. the public domain; and if the State fails, within ten years from the date of such segregation, to cause the whole or any part of the lands so segregated to be so irrigated and reclaimed, the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, continue said segregation for a period not exceeding five years, or may, in his discretion, restore such lands not irrigated and reclaimed to the public domain upon the expiration of the ten-year period or of any extension thereof.
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