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[CITE: 43USC541]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
  CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 
       SUBCHAPTER XIV--PATENTS AND FINAL WATER-RIGHT CERTIFICATES
 
Sec. 541. When patent or final certificate issued

    Any homestead entryman under the Act of June 17, 1902, known as the 
reclamation Act, including entrymen on ceded Indian lands, may, at any 
time after having complied with the provisions of law applicable to such 
lands as to residence reclamation, and cultivation, submit proof of such 
residence, reclamation, and cultivation, which proof, if found regular 
and satisfactory, shall entitle the entryman to a patent, and all 
purchasers of water-right certificates on reclamation projects shall be 
entitled to a final water-right certificate upon proof of the 
cultivation and reclamation of the land to which the certificate 
applies, to the extent required by the reclamation Act for homestead 
entrymen: Provided, That no such patent or final water-right certificate 
shall issue until after the payment of all sums due the United States on 
account of such land or water right at the time of the submission of 
proof entitling the homestead or desert-land entryman to such patent or 
the purchaser to such final water-right certificate.

(Aug. 9, 1912, ch. 278, Sec. 1, 37 Stat. 265; Feb. 15, 1917, ch. 71, 39 
Stat. 920.)

                       References in Text

    Act of June 17, 1902, known as the reclamation Act, referred to in 
text, is act June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, as amended, 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.
