2018 US Code
Title 43 - Public Lands
Chapter 9 - Desert-Land Entries
Sec. 331 - Reclamation requirements waived in favor of disabled soldiers, etc.

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Citation 43 U.S.C. § 331 (2018)
Section Name §331. Reclamation requirements waived in favor of disabled soldiers, etc.
Section Text

Any entryman under the desert-land laws, or any person entitled to preference right of entry under section 326 of this title, who after application or entry for surveyed lands or legal initiation of claim for unsurveyed lands, and prior to November 11, 1918, enlisted or was actually engaged in the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps during the war with Germany, who has been honorably discharged and because of physical incapacities due to service is unable to accomplish reclamation of and payment for the land, may make proof without further reclamation thereof or payments thereon under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and receive patent for the land by him so entered or claimed, if found entitled thereto: Provided, That no such patent shall issue prior to the survey of the land.

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(Mar. 1, 1921, ch. 102, §2, as added Dec. 15, 1921, ch. 3, 42 Stat. 348.)

Publication Title United States Code, 2018 Edition, Title 43 - PUBLIC LANDS
Category Bills and Statutes
Collection United States Code
SuDoc Class Number Y 1.2/5:
Contained Within Title 43 - PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 9 - DESERT-LAND ENTRIES
Sec. 331 - Reclamation requirements waived in favor of disabled soldiers, etc.
Contains section 331
Date 2018
Laws In Effect As Of Date January 14, 2019
Positive Law No
Disposition standard
Statutes at Large References 42 Stat. 348
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