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 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Gus. 3558, 3559. 1906. 519 sixth principal meridian, in the State of Nebraska; townships seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, and twenty north, of ran es thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirtv-four, and thirty-Svc west of the sixth principal meridian, in Nebraska; and all rules and regulations of the nterior Department requiring petitions from all settlers of said counties asking for resurvey and agreement to abide by the result of the same, so ar as these lands are concerned, are hereby abrogated: Pro- Prcwtoou. _ vided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to impair im1:,Y§{?e%°;l° °]°"” "°° the present bona iide claim of any actual occupant of said lands so common occupied: Provided further, That before any survey is ordered it shall ` be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that the former official survey of said lands is so generally inaccurate or obliterated as to make it necessary to survey the land, and only such parts of the land where the survey is so inaccurate or obliterated shall be surveyed. Approved, June 27, 1906. CHAP. 3559.-An Act Providing for the subdivision of lands entered under the June 27,1906. reclamation Act, and for other purposes. [H- R-13536] Be it enacted by the Senate cmd House of Representatv}ves of the United [Public' N0` mg`] States of America in (Jon ness assembled, '1`hat whenever, in the opinion neemmuon pct. of the Secretary of the interior, by reason of market conditions and g,{.d'?,fpQ‘f,f,,§’c‘f,‘{,u@ the special iitness of the soil and climate for the growth of fruit and - garden produce, a lesser area than forty acres may be sufficient for the support of a family on lands to be irrigated under the pirovisions of V¤r 3?,P·389· the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, nown as the reclamation Act, he may fix a lesser area than forty acres as the mini- J mum entry and may establish farm units of not less than ten nor more than one hundred and sixty acres. That wherever it may be necessary, subdivision. _ for the pur se of accurate description, to further subdivide lands to be irrigatedo under the provisions of said reclamation Act, the Secretary of the Interior may cause subdivision surveys to be made by the ofiicers of the reclamation service, which subdivisions shall be rectangular in form, except in cases where irregular subdivisions may be necessary in order to provide for practicable and economical irrigation. Such subdivision surveys shall he noted upon the tract books in the General Land Office, and they shall be paid for from the reclamation fund: Provided, That an entryman may elect to enter under said praise. reclamation Act a lesser area than the minimum limit in any State or E”""°H°’°°'"°°" Territory. . Sec. 2. That wherever the Secretary of the Interior, in carrying Additional enmes out the provisions of the reclamation Act, shall acquire by relinquish- {§’,f,;§°H“q“m'°d ment lands covered by a bona iide unperfected entry under the land laws of the United States, the entryman upon such tract may make another and additional entry, as though the entry thus relinquished had not been made. Sec. 3. That any town site heretofore set apart or established by gqwnsgrwi wmm proclamation of the President, under the provisions of sections twenty- 1,.,-;,Qif§`§§‘, p%¤_ three hundred and eighty and twenty-three hundred and eighty-one of P_§;*§{··°°°’· ·"”· the Revised Statutes of the United States, within or in the vicinity of any reclamation project, may be appraised and disposed of in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress approved April six- A”"· P- ““· teenth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled "An Act providing for the withdrawal from public entry of lands needed for town-site purposes in connection with irrigation projects under the reclamation Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other pm·poses;" and all necessary expenses incurred in the appraisal and sale o lands embraced within any such town site shall be paid from the reclamation