The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-04-16

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8. Warning against unlawful set.
tlement upon public land.-No person
will be permitted to gain or exercise
any right whatever under any settle
ment or occupation of any of said
public lands begun without a valid an
proved water-rental application COW
ering the lands in question: Provided.
however, That this shall not affect anv
valid existing right obtained by set
Element or entry while the land was
subject thereto.
8. Water-rental charge.-The in
itial payment of $500 per irrigable
acre will be credited as payment of
a minimum charge of $1.00 per acre
for each of three successive years
beginning with the year in which en-
try is made, payment of which amount
will entitle the entryman to dol
lars worth of water each of said years,
at the rates fixed in the regulations of
the Secretary of the Interior for SIM
liar lands on the project; Provided,
that when lands have been, or hereaf-
ter r entered, after June Is, of any
year, and therefore do not secure the
benefits of water for irrigation pur-
poses in that year, the payment of
$500, made at the time of entry, will
be applied as a credit to the minimum
water-rental charges, or the minimum
operation and maintenance charges for
the ~three-year period beginning with
the year following that in which en-
try is made in accordance with the
minimum charges which have been, or
hereafter may be, established by the
Secretary of the Interior for similar
lands on the project. Additional wat
er will be furnished at the same rate as
established for water deliveries TO 9TH
er like lands in the project. The charges
herein provided will be made against
each acre of irrigable land in the farm
unit whether water is used thereon or
not and no part of the initial payment
of $500 per irrigable acre will be re-
funded at the termination of the three
year period. Future charges will be
announced by further order or by pub
lie notice.
10. Water Users Association
Each successful applicant after ma
king homestead application will be re-
quired to subscribe the land embraced
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River Water Users Association.
II. Water right application under
public notice.-Within three month al
ter date of public notice, hereafter to
be issued for the lands described in
said farm-unit plats, each entryman
must make a formal water-right appli-
cation covering his farm unit, in ac-
cordance with the terms Of such no
tice and the last proviso Of section
l of said act of August 10, 1914. Upon
failure so to do, the Secretary of the
Interior may, at his option, cancel
the entry in question with all rights
acquired Hereunder.
12.-Preference rights to soldiers
Until June 80, 1920, water-rental appli-
cations and applications to make home
stead entry hereunder for lands de-
scribed herein Except the lands re-
ferred to in paragraph - shall be re-
ceived only from officers, soldiers, sail
ors, or marines who have served in the
Army or Navy of the United States in
the war with Germany and have been
honorably separated or discharged
therefrom or placed in the Regular
Army or Naval Reserve. The lands
described in paragraph 8 of this order
which remain unentered at the expira-
ton of the statutory period of thirty
days announced by said local land Of
flee, shall thereafter for sixty days
be subject to entry under the provi-
sions of this paragraph.
Is. Proof to be furnished by SOL
diers.-Every person, qualified under
the terms of the preceding paragraph,
who desires to make entry, must file
with his water-rental application his
affidavit, which shall state his time of
service, the unit of which he was a
member, the dafe on which he was
honorably discharged or separated or
transferred to the Regular Army or
Naval Reserve, and that he did not
refuse to wear the uniform of such
service o to perform the duties
thereof. There shall be attached to
said affidavit a copy of such honorable
discharge or separation from the SER
vice, or the order of transfer to the
Regular Army or Naval Reserve, as
the case may be-, which copy shall be
certified by a notary public to be a
true copy Of the original. Such Off
GERS, soldiers, sailors and marines must
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homestead laws.
Ia. General entry.-On and after
June 80, 1920, any public lands de-
scribed herein which remain unenter-
ed Except the lands referred to in
paragraph - shall be subject to en-
try under this order by any person
the general qualifications of
a homestead entryman. The lands
described in paragraph 8 which may
remain unentered shall not be subject
to general entry under this paragraph
until the expiration of the period pro-
vided by paragraph IL. If on June
80, 1920, prior to 2 p. NJ, more than
one water-rental application shall be
filed for any one farm unit, then the
to make entry for any such unit
shall be determined at 2 p. m. of that
day in accordance with the provisions
of paragraph 5 of this notice.
PAYNE,
Secretary of the Interior.