The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1912-10-16
ALATE LAW THAT CONCERNS US
Providing For Issuing Patent On
End Of Three Year Residence
When Payments Are Made.

Tho following recently enacted
law is for application on government
irrigation projects and may be of a
local interest though it certainly car
ries no releief for government pro-
ject entrymen, except those who may
happen to have sufficient money to
comply with the provisions of the
measure The law follows:
BE i enacted by the senate and
i house OF representatives of the Unit
ed States of America in congress as
sembled, That any homestead entry
man under the act OF June II, 1902,
known as the reclamation act, in
Guiding entrymen on ceded Indian
lands, may. at any time after having
complied with the pro9iaions of law
applicable to such lands as resi-
dence and cultivation, submit proof
OF suca residence reclamation, culti-
/ vatiou. which proof Il found regular
and satisfactory shall entitle the en-
4 tymau to Il patent, and all purchas-
CTS Of water rights certificates ON
4 reclamation projects shall be entit-
led to a final watcr right certificate
upon proof o. the cultivation and
reclamation q the land to which the
certificate applies. to the extent re-
uaiied BY the reclamation act of
homestead entrymen.
PROVIDED, THAT no such patent
or certificate snail issue until all
sums due the United States on ac-
count Of such land or water right
at the time OF issuance of patent or
certificate have been paid.
Section 2. That every patent and
water right certificate issued under
this act shall expressly reserve TO the
United States a prior lien on the land
patented or for which water right
( is certified. together with all water
rights appnrtansnt or belonging
thereto, superior to all other claims,
liens or demands whatsoever for the
payment of all sums due or to be-
come due TO the United States or its
successors in control of the irriga-
ton project in connection with such
lands and water rights.
Upon the default of payment of
any amount so due, title to the land
shall pass TO the United States free
of all ineumbrance, subject to the
right of the defaulting debtor, or
any mortgage, lien holder, judg
ment debtor or subsequent purchaser
to redeem the land within one year
after the notice of such default shall
have been given, by payment of all
monies due with eight per cent. in
terest and cost And the United
States at its option, acting through
/ the secreary of the interior may
cause land to be sold at any time af-
ter such failure to redeem, and from
the proceeds OF the sale there shall
be paid into the reclamation fund all
monies due, with interest as herein
provided, and costs. The balance of
the proceeds, if any, shall be the
property of the defaulting debtor or
his assigne. Provided that in case
of sale after failure to redeem under
this section the United States shall
be authorized to bid in such land at
not more than the amount in de-
fault. including interest and costs.
Section 8. That upon full and
final payment being made on all
amounts due on account of the build
ing and betterment charges to the
United States or it's successors in
control of the project, as the case
may be, shall issue upon request
certificate, certifying that the build
ing and betterment charges in full
has been made and that the lien up
on the land has been so far satisfied
and is no longer of any force or ef-
feet except the lien for annual char
ges for operation and maintenance;
Provided, That no person shall at
any one time or in any manner eX-
cent as hereinafter otherwise proyid-
ed. acquire own or hold irrigable
land for which entry or water right
application shall have been made un-
der the said reclamation act of June
l17. 1902 and acts supplementary
thereto and amendatory thereof, be-
fore final payment in full of all in
stallment of building and betterment
charges shall have been made on ac-
count of such land in excess of one
farm unit as fixed by the secretary
of the interior as the limit of area
per entry of public land or per
single ownership of private land for
which a water right may be purchas-
ed respectively, nor any case In ex-
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