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practice in other cases of authorized and liquidated Time limit for claims against the United States: Provided, That when such moneys shall remain unclaimed in the Treasury for more than five years the right to recover the same shall be barred: Provided, That no homestead entryman shall of be required to make payment of the purchase money on purchase money any application to make a cash entry until the same shall have been approved by the register and receiver, but such payment shall be made within ten days after notice of such approval.

Payment

by homestead entrymen.

Approved, March 2, 1907 (34 Stat., 1245).

An Act To provide for the repayment of certain commissions, excess payments, and purchase moneys paid under the public land laws.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Repayment of where purchase moneys and commissions paid under any purchase money In rejected enpublic land law have been or shall hereafter be covered tries. into the Treasury of the United States under any application to make any filing, location, selection, entry, or proof, such purchase moneys and commissions shall be repaid to the person who made such application, entry, or proof, or to his legal representatives, in all cases where such application, entry, or proof has been or shall hereafter be rejected, and neither such applicant nor his legal representatives shall have been guilty of any fraud or attempted fraud in connection with such application. Reimbursment SEC. 2. That in all cases where it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that any person has heretofore or shall hereafter make any payments to the United States under the public land laws in excess of the amount he was lawfully required to pay under such laws, such excess shall be repaid to such person or to his legal representatives.

Restriction.

for excessive payments.

Amounts to be certified by Sec

terior.

SEC. 3. That when the Commissioner of the General retary of the In- Land Office shall ascertain the amount of any excess moneys, purchase moneys, or commissions in any case where repayment is authorized by this statute, the Secretary of the Interior shall at once certify such amounts to the Secretary of the Treasury, who is hereby authorized and directed to make repayment of all amounts so certified out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated and issue his warrant in settlement thereof.

Mineral

surveys.

used deposits.

land

Approved, March 26, 1908 (35 Stat., 48).

An Act For relief of applicants for mineral surveys.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Refund of un- of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of the moneys heretofore or hereafter covered into the Treasury from deposits made by individuals to cover cost of work performed and to be performed in the offices of the United States

Permanent

Repayments to

surveyors-general in connection with the survey of mineral lands, any excess in the amount deposited over and above the actual cost of the work performed, including all expenses incident thereto for which the deposits were severally made or the whole of any unused deposit; and such sums, as the several cases may be, propriation for reshall be deemed to be annually and permanently appro- funding. priated for that purpose. Such repayments shall be depositors. made to the person or persons who made the several deposits, or to his or their legal representatives, after the completion or abandonment of the work for which the deposits were made, and upon an account certified by the surveyor-general of the district in which the mineral land surveyed, or sought to be surveyed is situated and approved by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.

Approved, February 24, 1909 (35 Stat., 645).

An Act For the relief of registers and former registers of the United
States land offices.

isters and re

cellation notices.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Refund to regof the United States of America in Congress assembled, ceivers for canThat the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to refund, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to registers and former registers of United States land offices money earned by them for issuing notices of the cancellation of entries subsequent to July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, which money, under the instructions of the Secretary of the Interior, they were erroneously required to deposit in the United States Treasury, contrary to the provisions of the act approved July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two: Pro- Accounts. vided, That such refund shall be made only of money deposited subsequent to the approval of the act of July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and shall be made upon accounts stated and certified by the Secretary of the Interior: And provided further, That said Limitation. refund shall be made of only such fees which have not entered into the compensation paid to such registers out of the appropriation for salaries and commissions of registers and receivers for any fiscal year.

SEC. 2. That hereafter all money or fees received or collected by registers of United States land offices for issuing notices of cancellation of entries shall be reported and accounted for by such registers in the same manner as other fees or moneys received or collected.

Approved, March 4, 1911 (36 Stat., 1351).

Accounting

hereafter

RESERVOIR SITES.

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Act of October 2, 1888 (25 Stat., 526)-Reservation of storage
reservoirs in arid regions...

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Act of August 30, 1890 (26 Stat., 391)-Repeals act of October 2,
1888, but existing reservoir sites reserved...

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Act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat., 1101)-Reservoir sites to contain
only so much land as actually necessary..

Storage

reser

voirs in arid

region. Investigation.

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Extract from the sundry civil appropriation act approved October 2, 1888 (25 Stat., 526).

For the purpose of investigating the extent to which the arid region of the United States can be redeemed by irrigation, and the segregation of the irrigable lands in such arid region, and for the selection of sites for reservoirs and other hydraulic works necessary for the storage and utilization of water for irrigation and the prevention of floods and overflows, * * *. And all the lands which may hereafter be designated or selected by such. United States surveys for sites for reservoirs, ditches or Lands reserved canals for irrigation purposes and all the lands made susceptible of irrigation by such reservoirs, ditches or canals are from this time henceforth hereby reserved from sale as the property of the United States, and shall not be subject after the passage of this act, to entry, settlement or occupation until further provided by law.

from sale.

Topographic

surveys.

arid lands from

Extract from the sundry civil appropriation act, approved August 30, 1890 (26 Stat., 391).

For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, one-half of which sum shall be expended west of the one hundredth meridian; and so much of the act of October second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for Reservation of other purposes," as provides for the withdrawal of the entry repealed. public lands from entry, occupation and settlement, is Existing bona hereby repealed, and all entries made or claims initiated in good faith and valid but for said act, shall be recognized and may be perfected in the same manner as if said law had not been enacted, except that reservoir sites heretofore located or selected shall remain segregated and reserved from entry or settlement as provided by said Reservoir sites act, until otherwise provided by law, and reservoir sites hereafter located or selected on public lands shall in like manner be reserved from the date of the location or selection thereof.

fide entries validated.

Lo be reserved.

An Act To repeal the timber-culture laws, and for other purposes.

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SEC. 17. That reservoir sites located or selected and to be located and selected under the provisions of "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for other purposes," and amendments thereto, shall be restricted to and shall contain only so much land as is actually necessary for the construction and maintenance of reservoirs, excluding so far as practicable lands occupied by actual settlers at the date of the location of said reservoirs;

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Limit on reser

voir sites.

Lands of actual settlers.

RESTORATION OF WITHDRAWN LANDS.

Act of September 30, 1913 (38 Stat., 113)-Method for opening lands restored from withdrawal.

An Act To authorize the President to provide a method for opening lands restored from reservation or withdrawal, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Method author- That hereafter when public lands are excluded from ized for opening lands restored national forests or released from withdrawals the Presifrom reservation. dent may, whenever in his judgment it is proper or

Extended

previous restorations.

necessary, provide for the opening of the lands by settlement in advance of entry, by drawing, or by such other method as he may deem advisable in the interest of equal opportunity and good administration, and in doing so may provide that lands so opened shall be subject only to homestead entry by actual settlers only or to entry under the desert-land laws for a period not exceeding ninety days, the unentered lands to be thereafter subject to disposition under the public-land laws applicable thereto.

to SEC. 2. That where under the law the Secretary of the Interior is authorized or directed to make restoration of lands previously withdrawn he may also restrict the restoration as prescribed in section one of this art. Approved, September 30, 1913 (38 Stat., 113).

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