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[CITE: 43USC644]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
      CHAPTER 14--GRANTS OF DESERT LANDS TO STATES FOR RECLAMATION
 
Sec. 644. Preference right to entryman under State laws

    The Secretary of the Interior, when restoring to the public domain 
lands that have been segregated to a State under sections 641, 642 and 
643 \1\ of this title is authorized, in his discretion and under such 
rules and regulations as he may establish to allow for not exceeding 
ninety days to any entryman under section 641 of this title a preference 
right of entry under applicable land laws of any of such lands which 
such person had entered under and pursuant to the State laws providing 
for the administration of the grant under section 641 of this title and 
upon which such person had established actual bona fide residence or had 
made substantial and permanent improvements: Provided, That each 
entryman shall be entitled to a credit as residence upon his new 
homestead entry allowed hereunder of the time that he has actually lived 
upon the claim as a bona fide resident thereof.
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    \1\ See References in Text note below.
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(Feb. 14, 1920, ch. 74, 41 Stat. 407.)

                       References in Text

    Section 643 of this title, referred to in text, was repealed by Pub. 
L. 94-579, title VII, Sec. 704(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2792.
