The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1914-08-19
THE EXTENSION LAW IN FULL
New Reclamation Amendment Pub
lished In Full. Its Study Is In
yited BY Department.

| ment to the general reclamation law
and is published for the information
of the water users, present and pros
peetive.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Con-
gress assembled, That any person
whose lands hereafter become sub
ject to the terms and conditions of
the Act approved June seventeenth,
nineteen hundred and two, entitled
An Act appropriating the receipts
from the sale and disposal of pablic
lands in certain States and Terri
tories to the construction of irriga-
ton works for the reclamation of
arid lands,' and Acts amendatory
thereof or supplementary thereto,
hereafter to be referred to as the
reclamation law, and any person who
hereafter makes entry thereunder
shall at the time of making water
right application or entry, as the
case may be, pay into the reclama-
tion fund five per centum of the con-
struction charge fixed for his land as
an initial installment, and shall pay
the balance of said charge in fifteen
which shall each be five per centum
Of the contraction charge and the re-
mainder shall each be seven per CEN
tum until the whole amount shall
have been paid. The first of the an
nual installmens shall become due
and payable on December first of the
fifth calendar year after the initial
installment; Provided, That any
water-right applicant or entryman
may, il he so elects, pay the whole or
any part of the construction charges
owing by him within any shorter
period; Provided further, That
entry may be made whenever water
is available, as announced by the
Secretary of the Interior, and the
initial payment be made when the
charge per acre is established.
Act Shall Apply To Existing Projects
Sec. That any person whose land
or entry has heretofore become sub
jeet to the terms and conditions of
the reclamation law shall pay the
construction charge, or the portion
of the construction charge remain
ing unpaid, in twenty annual install
ments, the first of which shall be
come due and payable on December
first of the year in which the public
notice affecting his land is issued
under this act. and subsequent in
stallments on December first of each
year thereafter. The first four of
such installments shall each be two
per eentum, and the next fourteen
each six per centum of the total con-
struction charge or the portion of
the constructin charge unpaid at the
beginning of such installments.
Penalties.
Sec. 8. That If any water-right
applicant or entryman shall fail to
pay any installment of his construc-
ton charges when due, there shall
be added to the amount unpaid a
penalty of one per centum thereof,
and there shall be added like pen
atty of one per centum of the amount
unpaid on the first day of each
month thereafter so long as such de-
fault shall continue. If any such
applicant or entryman shall be one
year in default in the payment of
any installment of the construction
charges and penalties, or any part
thereof, his water-right application,
and IL he be a homestead entryman
his entry also shall be subject to
cancellation, and all payments made
by him forfeited to the reclamation
fund, but no homestead entry shall
be subject to contest because of such
default: Provided, That If the Sec
retary of the Interior shall so elect,
he may cause suit or action to be
brought for the recovery of the
amount in default and penalties;
but If suit or action be brought, the
right to declare a cancellation and
forfeiture shall be suspended pend
ing such suit or action.
Increase or Charges.
Sec. 4 That no increase in the
construction charges shall hereafter
be made, after the same have been
fixed by public notice, except by
agreement between the Secretary of
the Interior and a majority of the
water right applicants and entry
men to be affected by such increase,
whereupon all water-right applicants
and entrymen in the area proposed
to be affected by the increase charge
shall become subject thereto. Such