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[CITE: 43USC627]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
    CHAPTER 13--FEDERAL LANDS INCLUDED IN STATE IRRIGATION DISTRICTS
 
Sec. 627. Sale of unpatented and unentered land prohibited; 
        suspension of entry
        
    No public lands which were unentered at the time any tax or 
assessment was levied against same by such irrigation district shall be 
sold for such taxes or assessments, but such tax or assessment shall be 
and continue a lien upon such lands, and not more than one hundred and 
sixty acres of such land shall be entered by any one person; and when 
such lands shall be applied for, after said approval by the Secretary of 
the Interior, under the homestead or desert-land laws of the United 
States the application shall be suspended for a period of thirty days to 
enable the applicant to present a certificate from the proper district 
or county officer showing that no unpaid district charges are due and 
delinquent against said land.

(Aug. 11, 1916, ch. 319, Sec. 5, 39 Stat. 508.)

                       References in Text

    The desert-land laws of the United States, referred to in text, are 
classified generally to chapter 9 (Sec. 321 et seq.) of this title.
