43-U.S.C.-322
§322 – Desert Lands Defined; Question How Determined
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Title 43 > Chapter 9 > Section 322
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- Reference: Section 322
- Legend: §322 – Desert Lands Defined; Question How Determined
- USCode Year: 2013
Provision Content
All lands exclusive of timber lands and mineral lands which will not, without irrigation, produce some agricultural crop, shall be deemed desert lands, within the meaning of sections 321 to 323, 325, and 327 to 329 of this title, which fact shall be ascertained by proof of two or more credible witnesses under oath, whose affidavits shall be filed in the land office in which said tract of land may be situated.
The determination of what may be considered desert land shall be subject to the decision and regulation of the Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate.
(Mar. 3, 1877, ch. 107, §§2, 3, 19 Stat. 377; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)
Codification
The first paragraph of this section is from section 2 of act Mar. 3, 1877.
The second paragraph of this section is from the last clause of section 3 of act Mar. 3, 1877. The first clause of section 3 is incorporated in section 323 of this title.
Transfer of Functions
Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate substituted for Commissioner of the General Land Office on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, which abolished General Land Office and Commissioner thereof and transferred functions of General Land Office to a new agency in Department of the Interior to be known as Bureau of Land Management. See section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, set out as a note under section 1 of this title.
Section as Unaffected by Submerged Lands Act
Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of this title.
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43-U.S.C.-322 in the Legal Encyclopedia: Public Lands
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43-U.S.C.-I>. LAWS APPLICABLE in the Legal Encyclopedia: Land
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