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passed ; or said claims, at the option of the claimant, may be perfected 

 and patented under the provisions of said act, as amended by this act, 

 so far as applicable; and all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this 

 act are hereby repealed. 



When patent "SEC. 7. That at any time after filing the declaration, and within 

 the period of four years thereafter, upon making satisfactory proof to the 

 register and the receiver of the reclamation and cultivation of said 

 land to the extent and cost and in the manner aforesaid, and substan- 

 tially in accordance with the plans herein provided for, and that he or 

 she is a citizen of the United States, and upon payment to the receiver 

 of the additional sum of one dollar per acre for said land, a patent shall 

 issue therefor to the applicant or his assigns; but no person or associa- 

 tion of persons shall hold, by assignment or otherwise prior to the issue 

 320-acre limita- of patent, more than three hundred and twenty acres of such arid or 

 desert lands; but this section shall not apply to entries made or initiated 

 Proofs and con- prior to the approval of this act: Provided, however, That additional 

 proofs may be required at any time within the period prescribed by 

 law, and that th? claims or entries made under this or any preceeding 

 act shall be subject to contest, as provided by the law relating to home- 

 stead cases, for illegal inception, abandonment, or failure to comply 

 with the requirements of law, and upon satisfactory proof thereof shall 

 be canceled, and the lands and moneys paid therefor shall be forfeited 

 to the United States. 



laws exte* d VY* " SEC - 8 - Tnat tne provisions of the act to which this is an amendment, 

 Colorado. an d the amendments thereto, shall apply to and be in force in the 

 State of Colorado, as well as the States named in the original act; and 

 no person shall be entitled to make entry of desert land except he be a 

 resident citizen of the State or Territory in which the land sought to 

 be entered is located. " 



LIMITATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS EXTENSION OF TIME. 



Act of March 28, 1908 (35 Stat., 52). 



De s e r t - 1 a n d That from and after the passage of this act the right to make entry of 

 surveytdlands t0 desert lancis under the provisions of the act approved March third, 

 eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, entitled "An act to provide for 

 the sale of desert lands in certain States and Territories," as amended 

 by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, 

 entitled "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," 

 shall be restricted to surveyed public lands of the character contem- 

 plated by said acts, 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 acts who has, prior to 

 survey, taken possession of a tract of unsurveyed desert land not exceed- 

 ing in area three hundred and twenty acres in compact form, and has 

 reclaimed or has in good faith commenced the work of reclaiming the 

 Preference same , shall have the preference right to make entry of such tract under 

 rights. said acts, in conformity with the public land surveys, within ninety 



days after the filing of the approved plat of survey in the district land 

 office. 



stricted imentSre ~ SEC. 2 - That from and after the date of the P assa g e of this act no 

 assignment of an entry made under said acts shall be allowed or rec- 

 ognized, except it be to an individual who is shown to be qualified to 

 make entry under said acts of the land covered by the assigned entry, 

 and such assignments may include all or part of an entry; but no 

 assignment to or for the benefit of any corporation or association shall 

 be authorized or recognized. 



Extension of SEC. 3. That any entryman under the above acts who shall show to 

 the satisfaction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office that he 

 has in good faith complied with the terms, requirements, and provisions 

 of said acts, but that because of some unavoidable delay in the construc- 

 tion of the irrigating works, intended to convey water to the said lands, 

 he is, without fault on his part, unable to make proof of the reclamation 

 and cultivation of said land, as required by said acts, shall, upon filing 

 his corroborated affidavit with the land office in which said land is 

 located, setting forth said facts, be allowed an additional period of not 



