74 LAWS APPLICABLE TO THE NATIONAL FORESTS. 



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 act are hereby repealed.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 issues. 



" 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 

 association of persons shall hold, by assignment or otherwise prior to 

 the issue 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 prior to the approval of this act : Provided, however, That 

 additional proofs may be required at any time within the period pre- 

 scribed by law, and that the claims or entries made under this or any 

 preceding act shall be subject to contest, as provided by the law relat- 

 ing to homestead 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. 



Colorado. 



" Sec. 8. That the provisions of the act to which this is an amend- 

 ment, and 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). 



That from and after the passage of this act the right to make entry 

 of desert lands 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 pur- 

 poses," shall be restricted to surve} T ed public lands of the character 

 contemplated by said acts, and no such entries of unsurveyed lands 

 shall be allowed or made of record : Provided, however, That any indi- 

 vidual 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 exceeding in area three hundred and twenty acres in compact 

 form, and has reclaimed or has in good faith commenced the work 

 of reclaiming the same, shall have the preference right to make entry 

 of such tract under said acts, in conformity with the public land sur- 

 veys, within ninety days after the filing of the approved plat of sur- 

 vey in the district land office. 



