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<br />0" ')"2 <br />~ ..l, ) <br /> <br />for which entry or water right applioation shall have <br />been made under the said reolamation act ot June <br />seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, and acts supple- <br />mentarJ thereto and amendatory thereot, berore tinal <br />payment in full of all installments of building and <br />betterment oharges shall have been made on account of <br />such land in exeess of one farm unit as fixed by the <br />Seoretary of the Interior, a, the limit of area per <br />entry of public land or per single ownership of pri- <br />vate land for which a water right applioation may be <br />purchased respectively, uor in any case in exoess of <br />one hundred and sixty aores, nor shall water be fur- <br />nished under said aots nor a water right sold or <br />recogni2:ed tor such exoes IS; ..." <br /> <br />(4) section 12 of the Reolamation Extension Aot (act of <br />AUGust 14, 1914 (38 Stat. 689)), whioh provides, <br /> <br />"That before any contraot is let or work begun <br />for the oonstructio~ of any reolamation project <br />hereafter adopted the Jeoretary of the Interior shall <br />require the owners of private lands thereunder to <br />agree to dispose of all la.nd~ in exoess of the area <br />which he shall deem sufficient for the support of a <br />family upon the land in question, upon such terms and <br />at not to exceed such price as the Seoretery of the <br />~terior may designnte; and if any landowner shall <br />refuse to agree to the require~ents fixed by the Secre- <br />tary of the Interior, his land shall not be inoluded <br />within the projeots if adopted for oon.struotion." <br /> <br />(5) Seotion 46 of the ~~ibus Adjustnent Aot (aot of <br />Hay 25. 1926 (44 st.t. 649. 650)), whioh provide., i~ter .1i., <br /> <br />",. .Suoh oontraot or 0 cntracta with irrigation <br />distriots hereinbefore referred to shall further pro- <br />vide that all irrigable land held in private ownership <br />by a.."T/ one owner in excl:W5S of one hundred and sixty <br />irrigable acres shall be appraised in a manner to be <br />prescribed by the Seoretary of the Interior B.."'1d tho <br />sale prioes thereof fixed by the Secretary on the <br />basis of its actual bona fide value at the date of <br />the appraisal without roforence to the proposed con- <br />struction of the irrigation works; and that no such <br />excess lands so hold shall receive wator !rom any <br />projoct or divisio::1 if tho owners theroof shall re- <br />fuso to QXocuto valid rocordablo contraots for the <br />sale of such lands undor terms and conditions satis- <br />factory to the Seoretary of the Interior and at <br />prices not to e~ceed those fixed by the Secretary ot <br />the Interior; and that until one-halt the construction <br />oharbes against said lands shall have been fully paid <br />no sale of ~. such lands shall carry t~e right to <br /> <br />- 13 - <br />