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[CITE: 43USC419]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
  CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 
        SUBCHAPTER III--INSTITUTION AND CONSTRUCTION OF PROJECTS
 
Sec. 419. Contract for irrigation project; notice as to lands 
        irrigable, unit of entry, and construction charges
        
    Upon the determination that any irrigation project is practicable, 
the Secretary of the Interior may cause to be let contracts for the 
construction of the same, in such portions or sections as it may be 
practicable to construct and complete as parts of the whole project, 
providing the necessary funds for such portions or sections are 
available, and thereupon he shall give public notice of the lands 
irrigable under such project, and limit of area per entry, which limit 
shall represent the acreage which, in the opinion of the Secretary, may 
be reasonably required for the support of a family upon the lands in 
question; also of the charges which shall be made per acre upon the said 
entries, and upon lands in private ownership which may be irrigated by 
the waters of the said irrigation project, and the number of annual 
installments in which such charges shall be paid and the time when such 
payments shall commence: Provided, That in all construction work eight 
hours shall constitute a day's work.

(June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, Sec. 4, 32 Stat. 389; May 10, 1956, ch. 256, 
70 Stat. 151.)

                          Codification

    Section is comprised of part of section 4 of act June 17, 1902. 
Remainder of such section 4 is classified to section 461 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1956--Act May 10, 1956, substituted a period for the comma after 
``work'' in proviso, and struck out ``and no Mongolian labor shall be 
employed thereon.''


              Section as Unaffected by Submerged Lands Act

    Provisions of this section as not amended, modified, or repealed by 
the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of this title.


                            Cross References

    Construction charges to be paid in annual installments, see section 
461 et seq. of this title.
    Grand Teton National Park, withdrawn lands within exterior boundary, 
use for reclamation purposes, see section 406d-5 of Title 16, 
Conservation.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 464, 468 of this title.
