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seventy-seven, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following 

 sections : 



Maps showing mode of irrigation. 



" Sec. 4. That at the time of filing the declaration hereinbefore re- 

 quired 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 crops, 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 con- 

 struction 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. 



Expenditure of $3 per acre required. 



" Sec. 5. That no land shall be patented to any person under this 

 act unless he or his assignors shall have expended in the necessary 

 irrigation, reclamation, and cultivation thereof, by means of main 

 canals and branch ditches, and in permanent improvements upon the 

 land, and in the purchase of water rights for the irrigation of the 

 same, at least three dollars per acre of whole tract reclaimed and 

 patented in the manner following: Within one year after making 

 entry for such tract of desert land as aforesaid, the party so entering 

 shall expend net less than one dollar per acre for the purposes afore- 

 said ; and he shall in like manner expend the sum of one dollar per 

 acre during the second and also during the third year thereafter, 

 until the full sum of three dollars per acre is so expended. Said 

 party shall file during each year with the register, proof, by the affi- 

 davits of two or more credible witnesses, that the full sum of one 

 dollar per acre has been expended in such necessary improvements 

 during such year, and the manner in which expended, and at the ex- 

 piration of the third year a map or plan showing the character and 

 extent of such improvements. If any party who has made such 

 application shall fair during any year to file the testimony aforesaid, 

 the lands shall revert to the United States, and the twenty-five cents 

 advanced payment shall be forfeited to the United States, and the 

 entry shall be canceled. Nothing herein contained shall prevent a 

 claimant from making his final entry and receiving his patent at an 

 earlier date than hereinbefore prescribed, provided that he then 

 makes the required proof of reclamation to the aggregate extent of 

 three dollars per acre: Provided, That proof be further required of 

 the cultivation of one-eighth of the land. 



Existing rights preserved — Election. 



" Sec. G. That this act shall not affect anv valid rights heretofore 

 accrued under said act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy- 

 seven, but all bona fide claims heretofore lawfully initiated may be 

 perfected, upon due compliance with the provisions of said act, in the 

 same manner, upon the same terms and conditions, and subject to the 

 same limitations, forfeitures, and contests as if this act had not been 

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



