General Reclamation Circular, Approved May 18, 1916: Laws and Regulations Relating to the Reclamation of Arid Lands by the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 - 72 pages |
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36 Stat accepted act of August act of June affidavit amended America in Congress appraised assignment August 13 August 9 centum certificates of indebtedness Congress assembled construction charge construction or building contract copy desert-land entry entitled An act farm-unit plat February 18 filed final certificate final proof final water-right certificate hereby authorized homestead act homestead entries homestead law House of Representatives hundred and sixty Interior is hereby irrigable area irrigable land irrigation project issuance issued June 17 June 25 land embraced Land Office lands in private lien lots ment nineteen hundred operation and maintenance patent prior to June private ownership project manager proof of reclamation public lands public notice purchase receipt reclamation act reclamation fund reclamation law reclamation projects Reclamation Service records register and receiver regulations relinquished residence right application Secretary Senate and House subdivision thereto tion tract water users water-right application water-right charges withdrawal
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Page 41 - That nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting or intended to affect or to in any way interfere with the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder...
Page 59 - That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to perform any and all acts and to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this act into full force and effect.
Page 23 - Provided: That the right to the use of water acquired under the provisions of this Act shall be appurtenant to the land irrigated, and beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure, and the limit of the right.
Page 41 - Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use, or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder, and the Secretary of the Interior, in carrying out the provisions of this act, shall proceed in conformity with such laws...
Page 55 - as used in this act shall be understood to mean that certain act of the Congress of the United States approved June 17, 1902, entitled ' An act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in •certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands,' and the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.
Page 48 - That no entry shall be hereafter made and no entryman shall be permitted to go upon lands reserved for irrigation purposes until the Secretary of the Interior shall have established the unit of acreage...
Page 39 - That all moneys received from the sale and disposal of public lands in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming...
Page 39 - ... per centum of the proceeds of the sales of public lands in the above States set aside by law for educational and other purposes, shall be, and the same are hereby, reserved, set aside, and appropriated as a special fund in the Treasury to be known as the
Page 40 - That upon the determination by the Secretary of the Interior that any irrigation project is practicable, he may cause to be let contracts for the construction of the same, in such portions or sections as it may be practicable to construct and complete as parts of the whole project...
Page 41 - No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding 160 acres to any one landowner, and no such sale shall be made to any landowner unless he be an actual bona fide resident on such land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land, and no such right shall permanently attach until all payments therefor are made.