THE LAND SYSTEM NEEDED FOR THE ARID REGION. 3 
nated as irrigable lands in section three of this act, for the purpose of settling 
thereon, an amount of land not exceeding eighty acres to each person; but 
the lands thus selected by the persons desiring to organize an irrigation 
district shall be in one continuous tract, and the same shall be subdivided 
as the regulations and by-laws of the irrigation district shall prescribe: 
Provided, That no one person shall be entitled to more than eighty acres. 
Sec. 5. That whenever such irrigation district shall be organized the 
recorder of such district shall notify the register and receiver of the land 
district in which such irrigation district is situate, and also the Surveyor- 
General of the United States, that such irrigation district has been organ- 
ized; and each member of the organization of said district shall file a 
declaration with the register and receiver of said land district that he has 
settled upon a tract of land within such irrigation district, not exceeding the 
prescribed amount, with the intention of residing thereon and obtaining a 
title thereto under the provisions of this act. 
Src. 6. That if within three years after the organization of the irriga- 
tion district the claimants therein, in their organized capacity, shall apply 
for a survey of said district to the Surveyor-General of the United States, 
he shall cause a proper survey to be made, together with a plat of the same; 
and on this plat each tract or parcel of land into which the district is divided, 
such tract or parcel being the entire claim of one person, shall be numbered, 
and the measure of every angle, the length of every line in the boundaries 
thereof, and the number of acres in each tract or parcel shall be inscribed 
thereon, and the name of the district shall appear on the plat in full; and 
this plat and the field-notes of such survey shall be submitted to the Sur- 
veyor-General of the United States; and it shall be the duty of that officer 
to examine the plat and notes therewith and prove the accuracy of the sur- 
yey in such manner as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may 
prescribe; and if it shall appear after such examination and proving that 
correct surveys have been made, and that. the several tracts claimed are 
within the provisions of this act, he shall certify the same to the register of 
the land district, and shall thereupon furnish to the said register of the land 
district, and to the recorder of the irrigation district, and to the recorder or 
clerk of the county in which the irrigation district is situate, and to the 
