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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 329. Issue of patent on final proof; citizenship requirement as to patentee; limit as to amount of holding
At any time after filing the declaration, and within the period
of four years thereafter, upon making satisfactory proof to the
officer designated by the Secretary of the Interior of the
reclamation and cultivation of said land to the extent and cost and
in the manner aforesaid, and substantially in accordance with the
plans herein provided for, and that he or she is a citizen of the
United States, and upon payment to such officer of the additional
sum of $1 per acre for said land, a patent shall issue therefor to
the applicant or his assigns; but no person or association of
persons shall hold by assignment or otherwise prior to the issue of
patent, more than three hundred and twenty acres of such arid or
desert lands, but this section shall not apply to entries made or
initiated prior to March 3, 1891: Provided, however, That
additional proofs may be required at any time within the period
prescribed by law, and that the claims or entries made under
sections 321 to 323, 325, and 327 to 329 of this title shall be
subject to contest, as provided by the law, relating to homestead
cases, for illegal inception, abandonment, or failure to comply
with the requirements of law, and upon satisfactory proof thereof
shall be canceled, and the lands, and moneys paid therefor, shall
be forfeited to the United States.
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