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[CITE: 43USC447]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
  CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 
        SUBCHAPTER VI--WATER RIGHT APPLICATIONS AND LAND ENTRIES
 
Sec. 447. Relinquishment of homestead entry and making new entry

    Any person who prior to March 4, 1915, made homestead entry under 
the Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), 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susceptible of irrigation which at the time of said entry was withdrawn 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 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 sections 436 and 
437 of this title: Provided, That such entrymen shall be given credit on 
the new entry for the time of bona fide residence maintained on the 
original entry.

(Mar. 4, 1915, ch. 182, 38 Stat. 1215.)

                       References in Text

    Act of June 17, 1902, referred to in text, is popularly known as the 
Reclamation Act, which is classified generally to this chapter. For 
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note 
set out under section 371 of this title and Tables.
