...under said acts is required, in addition to compliance with the general homestead laws, to reclaim at least one-half of the total irrigable area of his entry for agricultural purposes and to pay the water-right charges apportioned against the tract, final certificate should not issue until...

...under said acts is required, in addition to compliance with the general homestead laws, to reclaim at least one-half of the total irrigable area of his entry for agricultural purposes, and to pay the water-right charges apportioned against the tract, final certificate should not issue until...

...Project, goes back to the purposes of the original Reclamation Act passed in 1902. This act provided that "no right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding 160 acres to any one landowner * * *" In 1906 the act was amended to authorize the Secretary of the...

...reservoir, while individuals have thought that the clause in the reclamation act which provides that " no right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding 160 acres to any one landowner," would exclude the school lands altogether, but this view was rejected...

...entryman on public lands to be irrigated shall, in addition to compliance with the homestead laws, reclaim at least one-half of the total irrigable area of his entry for agricultural purposes before a patent may be issued to him. § 3845. When patent or final certificate issued Any homestead...

...objection? Hearing none, it is so ordered. (The document referred to follows:) 2. LAND LIMITATIONS "No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding 160 acres to any 1 landowner, and no such sale shall be made to anj' landowner unless ho be an actual...

...provisions of the homestead laws, in tracts of not less than 40 acres or more than 160 acres, and (2) that no right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding 160 acres to any one landowner who must be a bona fide resident or occupant of the land in question....

...objection? Hearing none, it is so ordered. (The document referred to follows :) 2. LAND LIMITATIONS "No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding 160 acres to any 1 landowner, and no such sale shall be made to any landowner unless he be an actual...

...California State law. Squarely at issue was section 5 of the Reclamation Act of 1902, providing that — no right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding 160 acres to any one landowner — and section 8 of the same act, which provides that the statute is...

...beginning. Thus it was provided in section 5 of the act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388, 389) , that "No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding 160 acres to any one landowner, and no such sale shall be made to any landowner unless he be an actual...