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43 U.S.C. § 327 — Filing irrigation plan; association of entrymen
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At the time of filing the declaration required in [section 321 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section321&num=0&edition=prelim) the party shall also file a map of said land, which shall exhibit a plan showing the mode of contemplated irrigation, and which plan shall be sufficient to thoroughly irrigate and reclaim said land, and prepare it to raise ordinary agricultural corps, and shall also show the source of the water to be used for irrigation and reclamation. Persons entering or proposing to enter separate sections, or fractional parts of sections, of desert lands, may associate together in the construction of canals and ditches for irrigating and reclaiming all of said tracts, and may file a joint map or maps showing their plan of internal improvements.
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At the time of filing the declaration required in [section 321 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section321&num=0&edition=prelim) the party shall also file a map of said land, which shall exhibit a plan showing the mode of contemplated irrigation, and which plan shall be sufficient to thoroughly irrigate and reclaim said land, and prepare it to raise ordinary agricultural corps, and shall also show the source of the water to be used for irrigation and reclamation. Persons entering or proposing to enter separate sections, or fractional parts of sections, of desert lands, may associate together in the construction of canals and ditches for irrigating and reclaiming all of said tracts, and may file a joint map or maps showing their plan of internal improvements.
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It shall be lawful for any citizen of the United States, or any person of requisite age “who may be entitled to become a citizen, and who has filed his declaration to become such” and upon payment of 25 cents per acre—to file a declaration under oath with the officer designated by the Secretary of the Interior of the land district in which any desert land is situated, that he intends to reclaim a tract of desert land not exceeding one-half section, by conducting water upon the same, within the period of three years thereafter: Provided, however, That the right to the use of water by the person so conducting the same, on or to any tract of desert land of three hundred and twenty acres shall depend upon bona fide prior appropriation; and such right shall not exceed the amount of water actually appropriated, and necessarily used for the purpose of irrigation and reclamation; and all surplus water over and above such actual appropriation and use, together with the water of all lakes, rivers, and other sources of water supply upon the public lands and not navigable, shall remain and be held free for the appropriation and use of the public for irrigation, mining, and manufacturing purposes subject to existing rights. Said declaration shall describe particularly said one-half section of land if surveyed, and, if unsurveyed, shall describe the same as nearly as possible without a survey. At any time within the period of three years after filing said declaration, upon making satisfactory proof to the officer designated by the Secretary of the Interior of the reclamation of said tract of land in the manner aforesaid, and upon the payment to such officer of the additional sum of $1 per acre for a tract of land not exceeding three hundred and twenty acres to any one person, a paten
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Nothing in this subchapter or subchapter II shall be deemed to amend, modify, or repeal the Acts of July 26, 1866 (14 Stat. 251), July 9, 1870 (16 Stat. 217), March 3, 1877 (19 Stat. 377), June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), and December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 887), and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto.
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TITLE 43—PUBLIC LANDS
§ 328
(Mar. 3, 1877, ch. 107, § 8, as added Mar. 3, 1891, ch.
561, § 2, 26 Stat. 1097; amended Jan. 6, 1921, ch. 12,
41 Stat. 1086.)
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section is comprised of the second clause of section
8 of act Mar. 3, 1877, as added by act Mar. 3, 1891. The
first clause of section 8 of act Mar. 3, 1877, is incor-
porated in section 323 of this title.
Act Jan. 6, 1921, inserted introductory exception
phrase.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
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.
§ 326. Unsurveyed lands not subject to entry;
preferential right of entry after survey
From and after March 28, 1908, the right to
make entry of desert lands under the provisions
of sections 321 to 323, 325, and 327 to 329 of this
title, shall be restricted to surveyed public lands
of the character contemplated by said sections,
and no such entries of unsurveyed lands shall be
allowed or made of record: Provided, however,
That any individual qualified to make entry of
desert lands under said sections who has, prior
to survey, taken possession of a tract of
unsurveyed desert land not exceeding in area
three hundred and twenty acres in compact
form, and has reclaimed or has in good faith
commenced the work of reclaiming the same,
shall have the preference right to make entry of
such tract under said sections, in conformity
with the public land surveys, within ninety days
after the filing of the approved plat of survey in
the district land office.
(Mar. 28, 1908, ch. 112, § 1, 35 Stat. 52.)
§ 327.
Filing
irrigation
plan;
association
of
entrymen
At the time of filing the declarati
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