Acreage Limitation Provisions of Reclamation Law: Oversight Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session ... Held in Washington, D.C., September 13 and 14, 1976U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - 235 páginas |
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160-acre limitation acres agriculture apply appraisal beneficial ownership beneficiary BRODY Bureau of Reclamation buyers California CASEY Central Valley Project Chairman Commissioner STAMM committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY CONTRACTING ENTITY corporation cost County criteria crops Dist eligible land excess land laws excess land provisions excess landowner excess of 160 execution family farm farmers Federal reclamation laws Federal Reclamation project Fresno County hearings holdings individual Interior irrigable land Irrigation District JOHNSON Kern County KREBS land held leasing legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS memorandum MILLER nonexcess land Omnibus Adjustment Act Owners Acreage parcel partnership person Pradera problems proposed purchase question receive project water receive water Reclamation Act recordable contract Regional Solicitor repayment contract residency requirement Sacramento San Joaquin Valley Secretary Section 46 sell Sisk sold Stat statement tenancy in common tenant thereof tion tract transfer undivided interest United Walter Goodman water users WEAVER Westlands District Westlands Water District
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Página 63 - No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to any one landowner, and no such sale shall be made to any landowner unless he be an actual bona fide resident on such land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land, and no such right shall permanently attach until all payments therefor are made.
Página 62 - ... public lands which it is proposed to irrigate by means of any contemplated works shall be subject to entry only under the provisions of the homestead laws...
Página 63 - That in all construction work eight hours shall constitute a day's work, and no Mongolian labor shall be employed thereon. SEC. 5. That the entryman upon lands to be irrigated by such works 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...
Página 62 - as used in this act shall be understood to mean that certain act of the Congress of the United States approved June 17, 1902, entitled ' An act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in •certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands,' and the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.
Página 63 - ... shall be paid to the receiver of the local land office of the district in which the land is situated, and a failure to make any two payments when due shall render the entry subject to cancellation, with the forfeiture of all rights under this act, as well as of any moneys already paid thereon. All moneys received from the above sources shall be paid into the reclamation fund.
Página 39 - In witness whereof, the parties hereto have executed this contract as of the day and year first above written.
Página 61 - The former, as an operation of finance, claims primary attention; the latter is important, as it relates to the satisfaction of the inhabitants of the western country.
Página 64 - ... shall have been fully paid no sale of any such lands shall carry the right to receive water .unless and until the purchase price involved in such sale is approved by the Secretary of the Interior and that upon proof of fraudulent representation as to the true consideration involved in such sales the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to cancel the water right attaching to the land involved in such fraudulent sales: Provided, however.
Página 63 - No water shall be delivered upon the completion of any new project or new division of a project until a contract or contracts in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior shall have been made with an irrigation district or irrigation districts organized under State law...
Página 39 - ... giving and granting unto my said attorney, full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as...