43 U.S.C. § 451 — Conditions necessary for exchange; terms; credits; rights nonassignable

submitted 73 years ago by ch. 428 to r/title-43-PUBLIC-LANDS · 146 words · no verdicts yet

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A settler on a federal irrigation project can trade their farm land for a different plot, if the government finds their current land too small to support a family. The settler keeps credit for work already done on the old land. This trading right can't be sold or given to someone else.

If the Secretary of the Interior finds — using a land classification — that a settler's ("entryman's") unpatented farm unit on a federal irrigation project is too small to support a family, that settler can apply to the Secretary to trade it. The settler may exchange the farm unit for another unclaimed public-land unit on the same or a different such project, or, on terms the Secretary is satisfied with, for any other available farm unit on the same or a different project. The settler keeps credit under the homestead laws for the residence, improvements, and farming already completed on the original claim. If the settler already gave satisfactory final proof of that residence, improvement, and farming on the original claim, they don't have to submit that proof again for the new ("lieu") claim. Rights under this subchapter cannot be transferred to someone else.

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

Any entryman on an unpatented farm unit on a Federal irrigation project which shall be found by the Secretary of the Interior, pursuant to a land classification, to be insufficient to support a family shall be entitled, upon timely application to the Secretary to exchange his farm unit for another farm unit of unentered public land within the same or any other such project, or, upon terms and conditions satisfactory to the Secretary, for any other available farm unit on the same or any other such project. He shall be given credit under the homestead laws for residence, improvement, and cultivation made or performed upon the original entry, and if satisfactory final proof of residence, improvement, and cultivation has been made on the original entry it shall not be necessary to submit such proof upon the lieu entry. Rights under this subchapter shall not be assignable.

Source credit: (Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 428, § 1, 67 Stat. 566.)

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1953Enacted · Act of Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 428 · 67 Stat. 566

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