43 U.S.C. § 419 — Contract for irrigation project; notice as to lands irrigable, unit of entry, and construction charges

submitted 124 years ago by ch. 1093 to r/title-43-PUBLIC-LANDS · 172 words · no verdicts yet

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This law lets the Interior Secretary contract out irrigation project construction, once it's judged workable. The Secretary can build it in sections and must announce which lands, entry sizes, and charges apply. All construction work under this law is limited to eight-hour days.

Once the Secretary of the Interior decides that an irrigation project can actually work, the Secretary may contract out its construction. The project can be built in parts or sections - whatever pieces are practical to finish separately as parts of the whole project - as long as the necessary money is available for each part. After that, the Secretary must publicly announce several things: which lands can be irrigated under the project; the maximum size of land a person can claim ("limit of area per entry"), set at whatever acreage the Secretary believes a family reasonably needs to support itself on that land; the per-acre charges that will apply both to those claimed entries and to privately owned land that the project's water also irrigates; how many yearly installments those charges will be paid in; and when the payments start. The law also sets one labor rule for this work: on all construction done under this section, eight hours counts as a full day's work.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Upon the determination that any irrigation project is practicable, the Secretary of the Interior may cause to be let contracts for the construction of the same, in such portions or sections as it may be practicable to construct and complete as parts of the whole project, providing the necessary funds for such portions or sections are available, 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 the said irrigation project, and the number of annual installments in which such charges shall be paid and the time when such payments shall commence: Provided, That in all construction work eight hours shall constitute a day’s work.

Source credit: (June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, § 4, 32 Stat. 389; May 10, 1956, ch. 256, 70 Stat. 151.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1902Enacted · Act of June 17, 1902, ch. 1093 · 32 Stat. 389
1956Amended · Act of May 10, 1956, ch. 256 · 70 Stat. 151

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 1093 on 1902-06-17.

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