350 ACTS OF CONGRESS 



SECS. 614-615 U. S. RECLAMATION. 



provided: Provided, That the commutation provisions of the home- 

 stead laws shall not apply to entries made under this chapter. (Act 

 June 17, '02; 32 Stat. L., p. 388, sec. 3; 7 Fed. Stat. Ann., p. 1099; 

 Comp. Stat, '03 Supp., p. 219.) 



Coal lands may be withdrawn under this section : sec. 599, ante. 

 Reservation of lands, generally : sec. 598, ante. 

 Rights of way over state lands : sec. 389, ante. 



Cited : 167 Fed. 881 ; 176 Fed. 762 ; 179 Fed. 1 ; 190 Fed. 491 ; 38 Land 

 Dec. 513, 627. 



SEC. 614. CONTRACT FOR RECLAMATION SALE OF LANDS. 



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 sections or portions as it may be 

 practicable to construct and complete as parts of the whole project, pro- 

 viding the necessary funds for such portions or sections are available 

 in the reclamation fund, and thereupon he shall give public notice of the 

 lands irrigable under such project, and limit of area per entry, which 

 limit shall represent the acreage which, in the opinion of the secretary 

 may be reasonably required for the support of a family upon the lands 

 in question; also of the charges which shall be made per acre upon the 

 said entries, and upon lands in private ownership which may be irrigated 

 by the waters of said irrigation project, and the number of annual 

 installments, not exceeding ten, in which such charges shall be paid 

 and the time when such payments shall commence. The said charges 

 shall be determined with a view of returning to the reclamation fund 

 the estimated cost of construction of the project, and shall be appor- 

 tioned equitably. (Act June 17, '02; 32 Stat. L., p. 389, sec. 4; 7 Fed. 

 Stat. Ann., p. 1099; Comp. Stat, '03 Supp., p. 220.) 



State lands to be sold in units and subject to charges so fixed : sec. 390, ante. 



Cited: 229 U. S. 187 (33 S. C. R. 645); 176 Fed. 949; 199 Fed. 865; 

 179 Fed. 1. 



Cost of maintenance during government-held period is to be assessed along 

 with cost of construction : Swigart v. Baker, 229 U. S. 187. 



SEC. 615. DESIGNATION OF FARM UNITS. 



Whenever, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, by reason 

 of market conditions and the special fitness of the soil and climate 

 for the growth of fruit and garden produce, a lesser area than forty 

 acres may be sufficient for the support of a family on lands to be 

 irrigated under the provisions of this chapter, he may fix a lesser area 

 than forty acres as the minimum entry and may establish farm units of 

 not less than ten acres nor more than one hundred and sixty acres. 

 Whenever it may be necessary, for the purpose of accurate description, 

 to further subdivide lands to be irrigated under the provisions of 

 said act, the Secretary of the Interior may cause subdivision surveys 

 to be made by the officers of the reclamation service, which subdivisions 

 shall be rectangular in form, except in cases where irregular sub- 

 divisions may be necessary in order to provide for practicable and 



