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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 331. Reclamation requirements waived in favor of disabled soldiers, etc.
Any entryman under the desert-land laws, or any person entitled
to preference right of entry under section 326 of this title, who
after application or entry for surveyed lands or legal initiation
of claim for unsurveyed lands, and prior to November 11, 1918,
enlisted or was actually engaged in the United States Army, Navy,
or Marine Corps during the war with Germany, who has been honorably
discharged and because of physical incapacities due to service is
unable to accomplish reclamation of and payment for the land, may
make proof without further reclamation thereof or payments thereon
under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the
Secretary of the Interior, and receive patent for the land by him
so entered or claimed, if found entitled thereto: Provided, That no
such patent shall issue prior to the survey of the land.
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