The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-02-07
HOW TO SECURE LAND
UNDER THE PIqqMAN ACT

Department of the Interior. Cen
eraI Land Office, Washington, Janu-
airy IL, 1920.
Registers and Receivers.
u. s. Land Offices, Nevada.
Sirs:-The following instructions
are issued under the provisions CT
the act of congress approved October
22, 1919 public Nc. 60, 66th Con-
gress), entitled AN Act to encourage
the reclamation of certain arid lands
in the State Of Nevada, and for other
purposes"
Beneficiaries Under the Act
/. The act, as the title indicates,
is limited in its operation to lands In
the State Of Nevada, and is designed
to encourage the development and
utilization Of subterranean waters
for irrigation purposes. 1t confers
upon the secretary of the interior
authority to grant permits to citizens
OF the United States, or associations
of such citizens giving the exclusive
right to explore not to exceed 1850
acres Of land selected by them.
The only qualifications provided In
the act for persons receiving the ben
efts thereof are that the applicant,
or each member Of an association Of
applicants, shall be a citizen of the
United States; that he shall not be q
beneficiary under any other applica-
ton or permit under this act for land
situated within an area of forty miles
sQuare, and that he has not been a
permittee under any other permit un-
der this act, which has been cancelled
for failure to comply with its terms.
Married women, IL their interest Is
actual and bona fde, have the same
privileges az unmarried persons. A
corporation is not considered as an
association Of persons, within the
meaning and purpose Of the act.
A permit under the act Is not as
signable but the interest of a deceas-
ed permittee will pass to his legal
representative.
The forty-mile square limitation Is
construed to NEAR an area of that ex-
tent in which the lands covered by a
permit heretofore granted are in the
approximate center; to avoid possible
violation of this provision of the act,
applicants for more than n permit
are advised not to include In their
applications for additional permits,
any lands within less than twenty
miles Of any boundary Of the lands
included in any other application or
permit in which the applicant 10 In
terested.
Lands Subject to the Act
2. Lands to be designated and
made subject to disposition under
this act are those public lands which
are ~unreserved, unappropriated, nom
mineral, non-timbered and not known
to be susceptible Of successful irri-
cation from any known source of
water supply, at a reasonable cost.
Lists will be furnished the registers
and receivers Of the different local
land Offices from time to time and
they will be advised of the dates when
the designations become effective.
Application
8. ANY qualified applicant desir-
ing to explore for water under the
terms of this act should file with the
register and receiver Of the land Of
fee of the district in which the land
is situated, an application for permit,
together with q c~orroborated afida-
Wit as to the character of the land,
and pay the fling fee of n cent an
acre for each acre of land involved.
No blank forms will be furnished,
but the application and affidavit may
be combined substantially as In form
"a" printed at the end of these regu-
lations-same should be filed in du-
plicate and cover the following
points:
(a) Name and p~ostofice address OF
the applicant or of each member OF
an association of applicants.
(b) Citizenship. II the applicant
or each member of the association Of
applicants Is a n~ative-born citizen OF
the United States, the application and
affidavit must SO state. II q natur.
allied citizen, the application should
state the fact, and be accompanied BY
a certified copy Especial form for land
cases) of certificate Of naturalization
1t should be noted that unlike mos
public land laws, no rights may be in
itiated under this act by an alien who
has only fled a declaration of inten'
ton to become q citizen.
(c) Special requirements. In &C
cordance with the specific require
ments found in sections 1, 2 and 8 Of
the act, the application should in
clude an averment that neither the
applicant nor any member of an asso.
citation of applicants has filed an ap-
p~lication under this act for lands
within an area of forty miles square
embracing the lands in the present
application; that no permit hereto
fore granted to him, or to any asso-
citation Of which he was a member
has eve been cancelled, for non-com-
pliance with the terms and conditions
of such permit; that the application
fs honestly and in good faith made
for the purpose of reclamation and
cultivation, and not for the benefit OF
any other person or corporation, and
that he is not acting as agent for any
person, corporation or syndicate, to
give them the benefit of the land ap-
piled for, or any part thereof, and
that he wfII foffafuI1v and bnroofIv